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JWP EFi

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Post #1
what would be the optimal ammount of camber for 95% road use? or am i just best playing with it till i'm happy

guy i bought my KW's from was running mega camber, felt s**tloads better through tight corners than my previous

setup but would quite happily lose traction in anything other than bone dry conditions

also would it be overkill to get my trailing arms machined to run camber?
Posted 17th Feb 2013 at 20:27
daveyboy

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Post #2
Track work requires 3-3.5 degrees neg camber front and back. Plus a little toe in at the rear for stability. If you could easily add and remove camber then you could play and get what you want at any given time. (easy to do on the front, not so easy on the back with a beam setup) ideally you want as much camber as you can get without hampering traction in acceleration or braking. The problem is that road miles will quickly eat the shoulder of tyres set with aggressive camber angles as effectively the car will be running and scrubbing away on the shoulders of the tyre until loaded up thru weight transfer of cornering etc where more of the tyres contact area will be squashed I to the Tarmac. I'd guess that if you do primarily road then a halfway house setting would be 1.5 deg front/rear with a little more castor angle at the front too. (Standard is 1 degree neg on the rear anyway, assuming a worn beam isn't giving you more of course)

It's worth bearing in mind however that lift off oversteer characteristics will be exaggerated by increasing the camber at the rear. Fine when roll causes the outside rear tyre is loaded up during steady state cornering or under acceleration but lift off suddenly and the reduced contact patch will break away even more suddenly and will stop sliding more aggressively when you catch the slide so your adding and removing of corrective lock will have to be accurately measured and skilfully applied.

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Posted 18th Feb 2013 at 00:31
JWP EFi

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Post #3
^^^ that makes alot of sense to me, i think i will leave the rear camber alone, my axle was rebuilt 5

months ago so it hasnt got any wear

i will try 1.5 degree up front and see how it goes
Posted 18th Feb 2013 at 20:54
adam b

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Post #4
Depends on the tyres you want to run

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Posted 18th Feb 2013 at 21:10
JWP EFi

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Post #5
possibly AD08's although really no sure. ive had A048's which were very good but for me they are

too extreme for the road.
Posted 18th Feb 2013 at 21:22

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