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Thanks for the clarification.
I'd always been under the impression that the 993's rear suspension was designed to create more camber gain than earlier cars. If I'm reading this correctly, however, the 993 actually gains less camber than the 964 for a given deflection. I've never seen this type of graph for a 911, but I believe the rear camber gain is near identical to the 964. Hmmm...
The big difference I notice between the 993 and 964 looks like the toe at the rear- the 964 tries to maintain a relatively consistent toe (in), while the 993 toes in on compression but toes out when it unloads. I understand this is to create a 4 wheel steering effect in cornering (the rear turns into the corner), but it would seem to create instability under braking, when the rear would toe out. But the 993 has a collapsible link that comes into play under braking and corrects for this? Thus the theory is that recreating the 993's camber and toe curve on an earlier car wouldn't help unless it also had a collapsing link?
Very interesting stuff...
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