Following the SKOSH chart - your experiences?

66Valiant528 said

This C body is just an everyday driver with radials. Upgraded brakes to deal with the little cars that cut you off on the highway.
I was just wondering why it skips over C bodies on the list and I agree it shouldn't be different. Just wanted some advice. Thank you all.

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Nice! So for an everyday driver with 15" radials you don't need to go too crazy, with the Firm Feel upper control arms you should be able to get a decent amount of positive caster. Somewhere in the neighborhood of -.5° of camber, +3 to +5° caster and around 1/16" toe in should be fine.

As for C-bodies not being listed on the SKOSH chart, I'm sure it was just an oversight. The skosh chart is after all around 30 years old now, maybe more. I believe it was first published by Ehrenberg in the early /mid nineties. The market for handling Mopars was pretty thin then, and even more so for C-bodies. And yeah, the charts recommended specs are a bit out of date IMO, the caster especially is lower by a degree or two across the board. But that's because it was based off of using factory control arms with offset bushings. With all the tubular and adjustable UCA's out there now +4° is no where near the maximum you can get. And tire composition has changed a ton in that time too. For the fairly common 15" tires, BFG T/A's and Cooper Cobra's, the skosh is pretty decent. But for more modern tires like you can get with 17"+ rims, the soft compounds and increased grip can tolerate more extreme settings. Most modern cars run +8° to +10° of caster. Sure, some of that is tied into the suspension design, but more of it is about high speed stability and the fact that everything has power steering now.