Alignment Expert Needed: Axle offset?

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by TomC, Feb 13, 2007.

  1. TomC

    jim beam Guest

    good idea - will do.

    btw, in a fit of nsx enthusiasm, i dug up this article:
    http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/cars/nsx.html

    my favorite quote is:
    "Oh, and by the way, I loved the comment about the NSX being engineered
    by "people who went to college." However, that's not quite accurate.

    Japanese education is a meritocracy, with entrance exam scores allowing
    you to get into a good Jr. High, High School, and University. Once you
    get into your college or university, though, you have nothing to study
    for four years. Instead, it is the Japanese citizen's one chance to kick
    back for a while and goof around. The passing of entrance exams into a
    given rank of college is the indication of the graduate's mental
    ability, dedication, perseverance, etc.

    No field-specific knowlege is really picked up, so you will find job
    applicants coming into engineering, for instance, with degrees in
    everything from biology to English to History.

    This may be a good thing. New engineers come in as complete neophytes,
    and soak up their company's particular style, method, and priorities.

    However, perhaps the bigger strength is that employees in Japanese
    companies are not engineers for life, as we do in the US. Workers will
    be moved from Engineering, to Sales, to Personnel. This may sound
    wasteful of talent, but the result is that most of the senior management
    of a Japanese firm will have the big picture.

    As Philip's article starts out commenting, people at the top will tend
    to think that the solution to problems is more people like themselves.
    This is true in Japan as well - but it doesn't mean "more MBAs." It
    means more generalists.

    And that is the main strength of Japanese firms, and their products,
    such as the NSX or Supra."

    i hope honda get back to that "generalist" thinking, because they sure
    did lose it a few years back with over-enthusiastic bean counting and
    under-enthusiastic engineering.
     
    jim beam, Feb 15, 2007
    #21
  2. TomC

    philthy Guest

    what u need to do is take a measurement from the center point of the front rt.
    wheel to the rear and then do that same thing on the other side this will tell
    you which side is the offending side then u can use that info to see if the
    suspension has worn/ bent parts causing the dog tracking make sure the
    centerpoint of measuremnet is exacton both sides
     
    philthy, Feb 17, 2007
    #22
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