I am starting to learn about how to setup my kart. The way I am going about this is by making changes to one setting and feeling how it changed the karts handling. For example, my last day at the track i tried the full range of front track width settings.
Its coming time to start adjusting camber and castor. I can see that theoretically you can adjust castor and camber independently with the OTK eccentric Pills (within a range, I understand you cant be at the extremes of both camber and castor). I am stuggling to figure out how to dial in a specific castor and camber combination. Does anyone have any tips to make it easier.
I have been trying to map all the possible settings but there are 400 combinations and it takes about 3 minutes to make each change. Life is just too short for that.
Those camber settings you’re referring to would be really really extreme, basically undriveable. Try just doing two clicks positive and negative on each pill (can do this by one click change on top, opposite one click change on bottom to eliminate the caster change), and then do full caster and min caster at neutral camber. You’ll feel a huge difference.
David is pretty much right. No need to worry about the 400 combinations; a couple dots of camber either way is generally as far as most adjust on an OTK.
You can buy different degree pills to adjust caster specifically.
If you have two zero pills (use them on the bottom only) it makes everything easier.
You can simplify caster to 5 settings and of those 5 you’ll probably only use 3.
Both arrows forward - neutral
Top arrow forward/zero pill bottom - half caster
Top arrow forward/bottom arrow back - full caster
Top arrow back/zero pill bottom - half caster out
Top arrow back/bottom arrow forward - full caster out
And you can limit camber to probably 5 settings as well by using the top pill and sticking with neutral to 1-2 clicks positive or negative. The amount of caster change when adjusting camber in the narrow of a window is pretty minor.
Still a lot of combinations but rather than thinking of caster and camber as a compound equation you can make them two independent changes that are easier to quantify/assess.
If you do some searching in this forum there are a couple people made some pretty great charts/tables quantifying those 400 options.