[s-cars] Tires and Camber

TM t44tq at mindspring.com
Sat May 11 13:08:35 EDT 2002


Those of you who are running big tires, can you please tell me what
type of wear you are experience at what camber setting in the front?

I'm running -1.5/-1.25 in the front and will probably correct that to
approx. -1.25 on both sides or -1.0, but would like some feedback on
how much inner shoulder wear I can expect with those settings.
Otherwise,
I'll have to drop the struts, and install camber plates. I would like to
avoid, if at all possible, running a camber setting that will kill my
tires
in 15k miles, but I need sufficient negative camber to be able to autox
my
car w/o destroying the outer shoulders. Going to 255 will help, I think,
but I need to get this dialed in perfectly.

Also, does anyone have experience w/ camber plate adjustments? I wonder
how
much is involved in changing camber every weekend just for autox/track.
I
would ideally like to run -0.5 for street and about -2.0 for track.
Having
no experience I would like to know if it is feasible to learn all of
this
and be able to do alignments in a parking lot or someplace similar with
the
appropriate racing alignment equipment. Finally, anyone know where I can
pick
up this equipment inexpensively?

Taka




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