lowered type 44, was 4000

[Larry C Leung]

FWIW, my 200 (post lowering) fell in at 1.2 degrees negative, which is on
the negative end of spec. It could have been put to center spec (and
still can) but I wanted a little more negative for quicker turn in and
less understeer. Wear is SLIGHTLY accelerated, but no more so than my
rather negatively set SCCA Solo2 GTi. Generally, the wear can reasonably
be accompensated by more frequent rotations, BTDT. When my TOE was out
(in this case, toe out) the wear was tremendous (and there was much
understeer and squealing too). My alignment shop concurred, toe is more
of a factor on wear than (reasonable) camber.

LL - NY

BTW - didn't I post something like this before?

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:58:44 +0100 Eyvind Spangen
<eyvind.spangen at c2i.net> writes:
>On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:45:08 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>i dont know about the 200's, but on my 5000 with hr's (1.5" drop)
>and
>>bilstein's i wore thru the front tires in 5 months - as in metal
>sticking
>>thru the insire edge of the tire with nearly new tred on top. [DOH!]
>
>My '87 5k, which was lowered about 40 mm, could not be adjusted to
>less than 1.5 degree negative camber, but this had little/no
>influence
>on tire wear. I think your alignment shop might have been smoking
>something strange.. :-) Getting the camber 100% right is difficult on
>a lowered type 44, but getting it close should be possible..
>
>--
>Regards,
>ES
>