[s-cars] Calling All Suspension and Alignment Junkies-FrontCamberSetting

[Mark Strangways]

While on the subject of camber / castor..
I am looking to create my own camber plate, similar to 2B.
Not that the 2B plate isn't very good, it is.
I just want to do things differently.

So, those with 2B plates...
- they don't use the rubber bushings to isolate the shock, is this correct ?
- Is there any known issues or drawback to this.

I am looking to use some form of rigid attachment of the shock but not sure 
of the impacts. I know the angle between the shock and the body has to be 
handled, and not sure yet what I will do.

Any comments or suggestions most welcome.
Even "What are U crazy... Why re-invent the wheel"

Mark S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Rossato" <r0ssat0_987 at att.net>
To: "'Fred Munro'" <munrof at sympatico.ca>; "'Mark Pollan'" 
<mark.pollan at mci.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Calling All Suspension and Alignment 
Junkies-FrontCamberSetting


>I found -1.0deg of camber to be a good compromise between handling and
> wear.  I was running Dunlop SP8000 tires in a 235/45 size and found that
> by the time I was starting to get unacceptable inner edge wear, I was
> down to the wear bars on the tires and they were done anyway.  This was
> just over 20k miles on these tires.  I also rotated the tires front to
> rear, where I run -0.7deg camber, each time I swap between winter and
> summer shoes.
>
> If you're running high mileage all-season tires, then I agree that with
> -1.0deg of camber you'll never get to the 40k mile life you'd expect out
> of an all-season.  However, for performance tires with their inherent
> lower mileage life - and after all if someone is upgrading the
> suspension it would seem silly not to put high performance tires on - I
> found it to be a good setting.
>
> bob
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Fred Munro
>> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:44 AM
>> To: Robert Rossato; 'Mark Pollan'; s-car-list at audifans.com
>> Subject: RE: [s-cars] Calling All Suspension and Alignment
>> Junkies -FrontCamberSetting
>>
>>
>> My front tires were wearing at -1.0, Bob. I've got mine set
>> to -0.5 using
>> the 2Bennett camber plates, but it's a stock suspension. I
>> actually bought
>> the camber plates to get the caster in spec; the camber was a bonus.
>>
>> Fred
>
>
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