Scot

My tires wear evenly all the way across... all three sets of hoosiers that I have had still have lots of tread on them but they get heat cycled out.

I thought I would go with a more aggressive alignment (i am still new to this stuff so thanks for the help).

currently

Camber -2.6 front -2.5 Rear
Caster 5.6
Toe -.03in Front .12in rear


If I leave the rear alone basically and go with -3.0 camber in the front.... will that be a noticable difference? I ran the -2.6 all last year.

thanks

jerrypeterson

So you have ideal tire wear and you want to increase camber?

Scot

i feel like I am leaving some time on the table due to the completely even wear..... if i wear out a set of tires in the same number of heat cycles then I am fine with that...... i am throwing the tires away after 18 heat cycles anyway.... might as well wear them out instead of throwing away a bunch of heatcycled out tread.

make sense?

jerrypeterson

I get it.

(not trying to muddy the water but...)

However if tire wear isn't an issue, then you should consider testing for an optimum configuration on a per track basis. Willow Springs for example: all of the long high speed turns are right handers so it would be wise to optomize your setup for right hand turns.

For the same reason I would think it would be difficult to assess what increasing your front camber will do from behind our comfy computers.

Scot

i am just looking for a pretty aggressive all around alignment for lefts and rights and some normal straights.....the car is pretty decent at everything right now so I thought I would try to improve on it.....

i think Krazik says he is over -3.0 camber? I guess I could do a search....baaaaa

depletedUfoot

My 2 cents -- I think you already have "a pretty aggressive, all-around alignment." You should probably look elsewhere for more speed.

rlaifatt

I changed my front camber only from -2.0 to -3.0, all else was left unchanged, and there was a significant difference in handling and tirewear. Now I have -3.0 all around and the car feels balanced and better than ever, with even tire wear inside and outside but the centers are less worn than usual (so I am throwing away a lot of center rubber). Whether it will work better for your car I think would depend a lot on the rest of your setup, including tire sizes and make, spring rates, aero etc.

Scot

thank you. I figure at the worst I will undo the alignment back to my current setting if I am slower or don't like the -3.0...

I only have crappy tein RA's and I don't know the spring rates.

jerrypeterson

I believe the standard set of springs shipped with the Tein RA's were 10k rates all around. Please don't make mission critical decisions with that figure though.

Scot

i will "champion" it through