Alignment spec for 'race'

[Beans]

I'm going to have an alignment done next week at a higher end place... Car is primarily aimed for autox for the moment. Anyone have recommendations?

Steer me away from understeer. I have everything adjustable, except camber plates.

 

[cclngthr]

I'm going to have an alignment done next week at a higher end place... Car is primarily aimed for autox for the moment. Anyone have recommendations?

Steer me away from understeer. I have everything adjustable, except camber plates.

Let me check with another website I belonged to, to see if I can find the specs for a similar equipped car (specs should be the same as the Contour). If my memory serves me correctly, you want the rear angles slightly different from stock to get a slight oversteer, or neutral steer feel.

 

[cclngthr]

Found it. Although this is on a Elantra, notice that the car is used for autocrossing, and the front/rear camber is set for the high speed cornering. He has it set different on the front as well; BUT he also has a larger rear sway bar, which is a mod that makes the car handle MUCH better even with the stock alignment.
http://elantragtclub.tripod.com/elantra/id554.html

I've done alignments this way on all of my cars and find this is more accurate than on a machine.

 

[contour_r_us]

I'm going to have an alignment done next week at a higher end place... Car is primarily aimed for autox for the moment. Anyone have recommendations?

Steer me away from understeer. I have everything adjustable, except camber plates.

I ran a Neon for a number of years in local AutoCross competition. I found the following helpful: http://faq.neons.org/faq/FAQ_S.html
Many misconceptions out there, check 3.6.5 in the aforementioned article.

 

[aboythatskates]

i would do toe out on the fronts and neutral in the back. front probably -.05 toe, that induces turn in feel.

 

[Beans]

Got it done. Now i got a bad steering rack, awesome.