I was reading grass roots motorsports and in one of the articles they talk about adding camber to make the car understeer less. If I want to add camber (more negative) how do I know when to add more and when to stop? What are the signs of too much camber and not enough?
Camber- When to add when to take away
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Shoaz
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Oh, man, this can get complicated in a hurry.
It's a tradeoff. Adding camber can definitely help the front grip in turns, but taken to an extreme it can cost a bit of contact patch area under straight-line braking. Autocross and road race setups generally differ since the tradeoff benefits are a bit different.
The bottom line, though, is to play with it to suit your driving style. Taking tire temps can help, too, to see whether you're where you need to be, but that can be tricky as well.
How much to use is going to depend on you strut/spring/swaybar setup, your driving style, and what you want to do with it. If the car needs to stay streetable you may not want as much camber as you may if it were strictly a track car.
It's a tradeoff. Adding camber can definitely help the front grip in turns, but taken to an extreme it can cost a bit of contact patch area under straight-line braking. Autocross and road race setups generally differ since the tradeoff benefits are a bit different.
The bottom line, though, is to play with it to suit your driving style. Taking tire temps can help, too, to see whether you're where you need to be, but that can be tricky as well.
How much to use is going to depend on you strut/spring/swaybar setup, your driving style, and what you want to do with it. If the car needs to stay streetable you may not want as much camber as you may if it were strictly a track car.
60kmaintenance
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Negative chamber will wear down the middle and inside of your tire faster though, another trade off.....
Electricat
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Any suggestions on setting of camber and caster for an aggressively driven, street-only SHO? Mine is presently set around -1* camber, -4.5* caster, which are toward the aggressive end of the factory recommended range.
Shoaz
Studly dood
60kmaintenance said:
I've been running -2 to -2.5 degrees camber on the front of my car for a long time and still get _very_ even tire wear. Wear sensitivity to camber seems to depend on the type of tire.
Electricat, your settings sound pretty good, especially the caster. If that does what you want I'd stick with it. You may be able to get more camber, but it may come at the expense of some of the caster.
Generally the more camber the better, but for a street SHO there's not much point in getting crazy with it, IMHO.
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