While I am far from an expert on this subject, I have
read that the problem with too much static camber
impacting breaking perfromance is much more of an
issue with bias ply tires than radials. When the major
professional races started switching to radials, you
started seeing a lot more static negative camber.
--- Sean Bradshaw <sean@spintec.org> wrote:
> This is MR2 content and may not apply:
>
> I run 1.0 degrees (max) in the front and that works
> great for both, and
> still allows great braking. The trick is to adjust
> in as much caster as you
> can tolerate, in my case it's max at 6 degrees. That
> way when the car turns,
> the wheels camber in a bit and compensate for the
> lack of static camber. I
> recently ran Thunderhill with Praxis and the
> Celica's and had no problem
> outbraking them into turn 10 even with unknown pads,
> and 195/60R14 tires.
>
> Or maybe that was just my confidence over theirs?
> -Sean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Talley, Brooks" <brooks@frnk.com>
> To: "BayArea Team.Net" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 9:58 AM
> Subject: Camber compromise for autox / track days...
>
>
> > Hey, everyone. Great event yesterday.
> >
> > I'm curious what other folks who use the same car
> for autox and track
> > days are doing for camber in front. I'm currently
> running 1.5 degrees
> > of negative camber, and would like to bump that up
> a bit. However, I'm
> > told (and it makes sense) that increasing negative
> camber will
> > negatively affect braking performance on a road
> course. That's
> > absolutely the last thing I need -- I've already
> had more than my share
> > of "please, Mr. Porsche-in-front-of-me, get off
> the brakes and back on
> > the gas NOW!" moments.
> >
> > Ideally, of course, I could just adjust the camber
> myself before each
> > type of event, but I don't have that luxury in
> either time or equipment.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Brooks
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