I love these sort of videos Mr. Ficarra. A absolute pleasure listening to you. The way you really understand the topics you talk about, and just the passion and love for automobiles behind every word you say is mesmerizing. I cannot emphasize enough how much your videos just make me fall in love with cars over and over again. I have seen the Porsche 917/10 video at least a hundred times by now, and love it more every single time. Your explanaitions of Camber, Caster, Toe in, Toe out, are wonderful and easy to understand, your way of explaining things is perfect. Thank you so much for every single video you make, every single video you post is a absolute gem, and I want to simply tell you how much these videos touch my soul and lift my mood. Thank you so, so much.
This video was enough to make me subscribe, even though I'm already versed in alignment terminology. Kinda 'cause I've seen you elsewhere and actually looked you up. If I put that much effort into it, I might as well subscribe.
Good morning John AND Matt, enjoyed watching this fun & very informative video ! Your great and simple to understand explanation of many important technical details plus a seamless videography by Matt (?) makes for a fun & wonderful automotive program to watch !!! Keep up the good work guys, Essy Fariab
The main snag with the 928 tank is that the metal support rots out if you live anywhere other than the moon. Paul Anderson does a stainless replacement which is fit and forget. The other issue is on the early cars the plastic tab at the top of the tank breaks off and the fuel flap won't sit flush. Both my cars are like that, I like it, it adds character.
This would have been even better if you had added a 1960’s school movie soundtrack to the background, and shot the bench part in black and white. Another excellent, educational video. Thanks for sharing!
I remember there was an Autocross in a carpark in my local city, and the quickest car by far was a pre war MG Midget, nothing could get close to it - not even the exotics (and from memory there WAS a 928 there) because they would have to slow down for each set of cones, whereas the MG chassis was just so flexible it was able to just weave thru the cones kind of like how a cyclist leans into a corner. Sometimes old doesn't necessarily = slow!
I cannot afford Porsche in real life, but I have few I love in my Gran Turismo garage. This video inspired me to take my 95 911 Carrera RS Club Sport and try to play with alligment setup, since I now have an idea whats that for. Thank you John for knowledge and entertainment you provide :)
Just wanted to say something about toe in on the rear axle and stability. 20 years ago i bought a young used car. (less than 2 years old, it stil had warranty). After a few months i noticed a noise from the right rear. Turned out, the right rear shoch had a factory defekt. So the rear shocks were replaced under warranty. (the only costs for me was the material cost for the left rear shock as only the right was damaged) After that no more noise. Now what does that have to do with toe in? The workshop (original dealership) seems to have missed to align the rear axle after this correctly. I only noticed because the rear tires wore off extremely on the outside, and the car handled differently in high speed curves with uneven asphalt: I was mostly driving on our highways where 130 kph is the legal limit and when there was a bump in a curve at that speed, the rear was rather unstable. The car started to yaw to one side under load, and to the other side when the additional load of the bump was gone. So imagine going round and suddenly the car is unstable left to right. Especially in the wet that resulted in an uneasy feeling. I brought the car back in for an alignement, they corrected it and after that, the car was stable again, no matter if dry or wet, if bumpy road or not, and the tires wore evenly.
toe in and toe out also depends if your car is FWD or RWD. A RWD, at speed, front wheels will be forced a bit back, so a bit of toe in can offset that. A FWD, the front wheels are pulling the car, so they will move a bit forward under power, and you can dial some toe out to compensate.
Geeez! What happened to the beard .... Did You get in an ambush of guerilla-poodle-groomers? They seemingly got to some of the haircut too I reckon .... It can't be the high-school cap alone, can it? Naah just kidding - Thanks for the update, and for Ficarra Classic so far!
You got as far as Ackerman but didn't mention trail or scrub radius (sometimes messed up by changing tire size). Caster is an angle, not a distance. Caster also affects dynamic camber. You also asserted that the optimum camber angle is not affected by tire width. I need to disagree with you on that. Tire width, height, sidewall construction, and inflation pressure can all affect the amount of camber required.
Just touching on some basics! There’s a lot of videos on UA-cam about in depth alignment settings, this was not one of them. I have to say your name is just amazing!
I love these sort of videos Mr. Ficarra. A absolute pleasure listening to you. The way you really understand the topics you talk about, and just the passion and love for automobiles behind every word you say is mesmerizing. I cannot emphasize enough how much your videos just make me fall in love with cars over and over again. I have seen the Porsche 917/10 video at least a hundred times by now, and love it more every single time. Your explanaitions of Camber, Caster, Toe in, Toe out, are wonderful and easy to understand, your way of explaining things is perfect. Thank you so much for every single video you make, every single video you post is a absolute gem, and I want to simply tell you how much these videos touch my soul and lift my mood. Thank you so, so much.
Totally agree! This guy is Legend!
Ok this was a great video... Thanks John and Matt.
914 graphics looks awesome !!😊
This video was enough to make me subscribe, even though I'm already versed in alignment terminology. Kinda 'cause I've seen you elsewhere and actually looked you up. If I put that much effort into it, I might as well subscribe.
What an awesome and simple description. You're a treasure, John.
Good morning John AND Matt, enjoyed watching this fun & very informative video !
Your great and simple to understand explanation of many important technical details plus a seamless videography by Matt (?) makes for a fun & wonderful automotive program to watch !!! Keep up the good work guys,
Essy Fariab
Thank you John, a simple and informative way of illustrating what camber, toe and caster is.. fantastic
The main snag with the 928 tank is that the metal support rots out if you live anywhere other than the moon. Paul Anderson does a stainless replacement which is fit and forget. The other issue is on the early cars the plastic tab at the top of the tank breaks off and the fuel flap won't sit flush. Both my cars are like that, I like it, it adds character.
This would have been even better if you had added a 1960’s school movie soundtrack to the background, and shot the bench part in black and white. Another excellent, educational video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, John & Matt!
Alignments primer was great. Thanks, John!
I remember there was an Autocross in a carpark in my local city, and the quickest car by far was a pre war MG Midget, nothing could get close to it - not even the exotics (and from memory there WAS a 928 there) because they would have to slow down for each set of cones, whereas the MG chassis was just so flexible it was able to just weave thru the cones kind of like how a cyclist leans into a corner. Sometimes old doesn't necessarily = slow!
hahahaha Matt in true form on this one, excellent layman's explanations on the alignment fundamentals. Great content as always!
I also enjoyed this explanation of wheel angles and what it means! Thanks a lot.
I love C4s. My uncle had a new one when I was little.
yes! jim clark!!! thank you for another great and infomative video. really enjoy these and always smile when you put out a new one. keep em comming!
Another great one! Thanks for your work
All hail the algorithm
I cannot afford Porsche in real life, but I have few I love in my Gran Turismo garage. This video inspired me to take my 95 911 Carrera RS Club Sport and try to play with alligment setup, since I now have an idea whats that for. Thank you John for knowledge and entertainment you provide :)
FWD track car (eg 60s Mini Cooper s) common to run toe out rear to help balance the understeer out.
Great one John!
Just wanted to say something about toe in on the rear axle and stability.
20 years ago i bought a young used car. (less than 2 years old, it stil had warranty). After a few months i noticed a noise from the right rear. Turned out, the right rear shoch had a factory defekt. So the rear shocks were replaced under warranty. (the only costs for me was the material cost for the left rear shock as only the right was damaged) After that no more noise. Now what does that have to do with toe in? The workshop (original dealership) seems to have missed to align the rear axle after this correctly.
I only noticed because the rear tires wore off extremely on the outside, and the car handled differently in high speed curves with uneven asphalt:
I was mostly driving on our highways where 130 kph is the legal limit and when there was a bump in a curve at that speed, the rear was rather unstable.
The car started to yaw to one side under load, and to the other side when the additional load of the bump was gone.
So imagine going round and suddenly the car is unstable left to right. Especially in the wet that resulted in an uneasy feeling.
I brought the car back in for an alignement, they corrected it and after that, the car was stable again, no matter if dry or wet, if bumpy road or not, and the tires wore evenly.
Thanks John! Although heavier (3100) that sounds like a good baseline for my F355 track car
toe in and toe out also depends if your car is FWD or RWD. A RWD, at speed, front wheels will be forced a bit back, so a bit of toe in can offset that. A FWD, the front wheels are pulling the car, so they will move a bit forward under power, and you can dial some toe out to compensate.
Nice beard Matt!
Thank yah!
Nailed that…
HE UPLOADS AGAIN
Your 914 is quite smokey, are the valve stem seals worn?
*looks at elantra* my alignment is fubar.
Does it have interior storage for skis though
Geeez! What happened to the beard .... Did You get in an ambush of guerilla-poodle-groomers? They seemingly got to some of the haircut too I reckon .... It can't be the high-school cap alone, can it?
Naah just kidding - Thanks for the update, and for Ficarra Classic so far!
You got as far as Ackerman but didn't mention trail or scrub radius (sometimes messed up by changing tire size).
Caster is an angle, not a distance. Caster also affects dynamic camber.
You also asserted that the optimum camber angle is not affected by tire width. I need to disagree with you on that. Tire width, height, sidewall construction, and inflation pressure can all affect the amount of camber required.
Just touching on some basics! There’s a lot of videos on UA-cam about in depth alignment settings, this was not one of them.
I have to say your name is just amazing!
Mr. Snuffleupagus is an MK Ultra psyop. Some of us are not fooled.