What is the best degree of caster for handling on our cars? Im making strut mounts and i want to know if i should change the caster angle at all. Thanks

 

If your making your own mounts, I would try and copy one of the existing designs. They allow for additional caster adjustment over the stock ones. Most of the recommended alignment settings I found for street cars had caster in the 5.0 to 6.0 range.

 

How far is that from the stock caster setting?

 

Not far, stock is around 4 I think.

You are aware the stock mounts have caster adjustment right?

 

Yes mine are jus worn out and i need more stut travel because my car is lowered so im jus goin to make some. The design is pretty simple

 

what are you using for a bearing for the top?

 

Im using a sperical bearing.
http://www.racereadyproducts.com/med...--fks-tpdf.pdf
And retainer cup
http://www.racereadyproducts.com/fk-...l-bearing-cups

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/post...2-post506.html

I used the wide body bearings for mine. Was having some feed issues with my MIG, not my greatest welds.

Sphericals aren't made for axial loading and the wide series is rated a little higher. Of course that means custom cups. I've seen a lot of camber plates use the standard sphericals so its probably not needed. Good call on the FK's, one my QA1's already has some slop in it.

Truthfully, there's no good reason to make your own. J&M has a lifetime warranty on bearings for their mounts and I've seen them on sale well below $200. I built my strut mounts just for a fabrication project, but I still need to go back and do some more fab to make the camber slots longer.

 

Yea it is just kind of a fun project for the experience but if these dont hold up i guess ill buy some