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Fast road geometry setup?

I have been running this for a year. Quite aggressive I guess but I don't drive much and I haven't really noticed any odd tyre wear. The car is really pointy with this setup without tramlining and it's quite neutral at mid corner and won't snap oversteer, and only does so when I stab the throttle. I like it.

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My concern is finding somewhere trustworthy. I thought I'd found somewhere once, old tinterweb threads of good reviews, gave them a call and sounded nice enough on the phone, pencilled an appointment in for me next Thursday, I then kept looking on the net and came across a few horror reviews for them that totally put me off, not sure what I'm going to tell them when I phone to cancel the pencilled app.
Found a different garage now, no doubt I could find negative reviews of those if I looked hard enough. They do a lot of work with jap cars but rx7s are few and far between around here so I don't know if they would have had much dealings with them.

I haven't seen the thread on RX7 club, I'll try to dig that out now, thanks.

Don’t worry dude the fd is just another rear wheel drive car ain’t it.

Take it to any competent garage like Neil that sets up track cars and you’ll be good buddy

Also I saw a red fs in black and red that looked sweet and made me think of yours lol I’ll dig some pictures Out of it for inspiration lol 👍🏻👍🏻
 
Don’t worry dude the fd is just another rear wheel drive car ain’t it.

Take it to any competent garage like Neil that sets up track cars and you’ll be good buddy

Also I saw a red fs in black and red that looked sweet and made me think of yours lol I’ll dig some pictures Out of it for inspiration lol 👍🏻👍🏻
Haha its red and black and silver and pink 😂 it's a fecking weapon though! So much quicker than my fd! Wayyyy summer time 😎

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Don’t worry dude the fd is just another rear wheel drive car ain’t it.

Take it to any competent garage like Neil that sets up track cars and you’ll be good buddy

Also I saw a red fs in black and red that looked sweet and made me think of yours lol I’ll dig some pictures Out of it for inspiration lol 👍🏻👍🏻

Yea I’ll brave it this summer and get it done, it’s gotta handle better than mine is at the mo!!!
Dig the pics out, be good to see 🙂 as much as I’d prefer it all red it won’t be an option for a while and I’m learning to love the black beret roof.

@Spendyrx 🤣🤣🤣 I know, it’s mortifying!!
I was going to get the bumper off today ready to take it and the bonnet to be sprayed but I’d left my wheel brace in the garden a bit too long and it turned to dust when I went to undo the first wheel bolt so I went back in the warm.

Send me that pic 🙂👍🏻
 
Here's my aggressive street / B road setup on 18x9.5 / 18x10.5

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Yep yours and Roy's setup is very similar to what I used to run & recommend; 6-7deg kingpin inc., neutral front toe, a little bit of toe-in on the rear, and between 1 - 1.5deg negative camber front and rear.
Front toe tweaked depending on how or where it's driven; toe-out for better turn in on tight circuits/fast road/hillclimb, neutral or slight toe-in for higher speed stuff and reduced tyre wear/higher efficiency if doing lots of motorway or road miles.
Toe-in at least a little bit on the rear to counter the toe-out induced under acceleration/heavy load. I've tried adding some static toe-out on the rear like you can do on some cars to improve turn-in, but it doesn't seem to work well on the FD and just seemed to make it unstable and less predictable (and in fact wasted my last track session at Mallory Park).

Oh and correct camber setting is a lot about driving style and other setup such as tyre pressure/construction, the feedback for which can ideally be seen through temperatures across the width of the tyre (tricky) or wear (easier but much slower).
 
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