Rear Trailing arm toe.

[masterfabr]

Straight line yes. Many performance cars with independent rear suspension have a little toe in.

[punkur67]

I went and talked to the guy who built the arms (Dustin at AG sandcars) and he said that he set them up for 12 degrees total, 6 on each side. I can shave off a little on the inside of the arm pivots to bring them in a little. I will probably leave them, I think he knows what hes doing.

[masterfabr]

That's not toe in that's being talked about, that is the amount of angle built into the semi-trailing arms themselves.YOU decide how much toe to design into the arms by varying where you mount the tabs.

[punkur67]

To make the arm correct the heim must be centered in the tortion tube and it has beefy stock style inner mounts. If you square up the inner mount to the tortion tube and center the heim you get what the arm has built in it which is 6 degrees. I was just worried that they were built with too much. I guess worst case I run it and if I need to I can remount a set of modified inner mounts. After talking with AG i am much more comfortable running them knowing that is how the were designed.

[masterfabr]

Apparently you don't understand. You sure as hell do not want 6 degrees of toe in.

[Bugpac]

I agree, 6 degrees is far to much IMO...

[standfast]

Originally Posted by nutnbolt2002

I didn't think that toe in at the front end and the rear end gave you stability?

No just the rear end. It keeps the car from wandering under heavy accel. I set the toe at zero in the front.

punkur67, like MF said, you are confusing toe with the semi trailing arm mounting axis. That is to provide camber change. The toe is direction that the tire ends up at.

[weasel]

I was responding to this last nite but I thought, what the "h" do I know.
I do know that I found a conversion site that stated {1" in 1 foot is 4.77 degrees} before I set up my forward link on my 3 link system.

I have {1/4" in 1 foot} built in to my main link wheel carrier and it has an obvious angle to it.

[masterfabr]

Originally Posted by punkur67

I went and talked to the guy who built the arms (Dustin at AG sandcars) and he said that he set them up for 12 degrees total, 6 on each side. I can shave off a little on the inside of the arm pivots to bring them in a little. I will probably leave them, I think he knows what hes doing.

The trouble is that you don't. I don't want to sound like a smartass but you're about to make a big mistake.Stop right where you are and call the guy back so he can explain to you the difference between toe in and trailing arm mounting angle.YOu will need to change your mounts to get things correct.

[Bugpac]

That is the problem in this market, Everyone assumes that because someone is building something and selling it, that they know what they are doing....