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i run ~1.5 neg camber and ~3.5 neg caster up front. Zero at the rear. Zero toe all round. Ideally run as much caster and as little as little camber for your application. More neg caster gives you more dynamic neg camber - which is what you want for less tyre wear due static camber.
Well one could argue that you'll do just as well with increase static camber, but that's certainly far beyond this topic. Either way, no one likes running huge camber on the street hence why caster is popular.
Also, I hope you made an error typing and mean 3.5degrees positive caster as more positive camber gives more dynamic negative camber not what you said.
Camber wear is almost neglibible compared to wear from toe - i'm yet to notice any non uniform wear from camber over the course of 10,000km at around -2.0degrees.
-2 won't wear quick. I was having -3.2 at the rear and wore the insides within 2000km.Quote:
Originally Posted by string
What was your rear toe at that moment? Within 2000km sounds like you've got bigger problems than -3.2 degrees camber. I've taken longer than that to wear soft tyres with half an inch of [negative] front toe! (don't ask)Quote:
Originally Posted by aaronng
A friend of mine has at least 3.5degrees negative on the front on his 1600 and gets as much wear as his rears at around -1.5, both wearing minorly on the inside.
Plenty of circumstancial(sp?) evidence but no solid facts except that toe is a real tyre killer.
same for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by aaronng
Once again theres no right or wrong, How much camber depends on track, tyres you run, spring rate and weight of car. We run about 3.5 deg front castor, 3 deg at front and just under 2 rear. Also we have about 0.5 more camber on the left side of the car as most of the tracks are clock wise.
Generally speaking you dont want too much camber at the rear as thers very little weight on the back of hondas.
Haha, i got a corolla dude, but same thing anyways. Yeah i got LSD as well and i've read up on castor but unfortunantly i can only increase it by + .75 deg, which isn't much. Sounds like it's going to be a tough one. Well i know that last track event my car was understeering pretty badly. You can see in justins2000's video clip where i go wide and he cuts in, and i was trying to turn :(. One case of understeer saw me off the track. -2 front camber is looking nice now, although i'm still a bit skeptical on toe. Maybe i'll just play with the camber this time round and if i'm not happy then i can play with the toe next time.
Camber is going to do next to nothing if you are having chronic understeering problems. Sounds like you need to look at your spring rates. If you aren't running a rear biased setup then understeer is to be expected. Play with tyre pressures more there's a lot in them.