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lew

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« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2011, 18:48:08 »
thanks jim i did find them a little loose and that could also have contributed. where i live we dont have the luxury of being able to get aircraft quality fasteners!!

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« Reply #16 on: August 14, 2011, 07:19:51 »
From Sports Car Illustrated, Aug 1959, Play Your Ace, Kenn Rudd's VPL442 race car came with rear camber of 2 degrees negative (on paper). To increase driftability, he lengthened the rear leaf spring and added a leaf. No mention of how much he lengthened the spring. He also chose to run the standard Michelin X tires fitted by the factory. Another old magazine you may be interested in is Sports Car Wheel Aug/ 1959 with a road test of an AC engined ACE