I also align my car before every race. Makes for a more predictable drive and also allows me to see if anything has changed significantly.
That sure is a nice alignment rack! Now, I feel like a caveman. Are there provisions on any of your inboard control arm pivots for adjustment, or only on the outside? Our car has 26 rod ends, and 4 uniballs! $hit's gotta weigh over 60 lbs. if you add in the mounting hardware and weld bungs! To save weight, I'm considering incorporating a cam-style adjustment (kinda like the 70's chevy trucks had- an eccentric washer for front wheel alignment purposes) in place of the inner rod ends. How long to set up and align your car? It takes me the better part of a day to do mine, with my slide rule and plumb bob in hand. Lol! Are those holy gizmos attatched to your wheels there for a laser reference or measuring point of sorts? Your shop and technology is definitely envious
! Your'e right about revealing frame deformation after each race through alignment. Next to monitoring my axle/cv joint plunge clearances, it (alignment) acts as a red flag on whether the chassis has sustained detrimental impacts or not, and alerts me to areas in need of attention. More than 1/2 of the people I speak with minimize the value of accurate wheel alignment, as it relates to the sport of desert racing. Of the 50% of believers, roughly only 1/2 of them do anything substantial about it. I'm not a driver, but riding with our driver , fast and in the grooved out lines that is the race course, the car seems to already have a huge tendency to dart around within the groove. I imagine that handling shortfall would only be multiplied if one of my rear tires were towed out excessivelty. I saw a UTV of one of the top teams in tech at this years Mint, and the driver rear tire towed in a minimum of 5/16" or more, while the passenger rear appeared to have zero to little toe-in, if any. Dude's winning races though
. Thanks for sharing what you do with all of us.