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Re: Camber is a good thing...
Posted by Conchyjoe [Email] (more from Conchyjoe) on Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:03:45
In Reply to: Camber is a good thing..., Jeff S., Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:55:08
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You are correct...NEGATIVE camber is a good thing. In order for a Mac strut design to work in heavily loaded positions, a position of negative camber is a foundation for predictible geometry. You see, stock geometry promotes SOME POSITIVE aspect to the road,which tilts the upper portion of the tyre to the OUTSIDE of the turn. This produces UNDERSTEER which is an attribute to evasive handling but an enemy to "race" handling. I once installed a rear "anti-roll" bar to the back axle of a '79 EMS to record such massive "oversteer" as to render the modification suitable only to spinning around golf carts to the 14th hole!
Be aware, the front end reacts based on the rear end! Too much "toe-out" at the rear can cause the car to wish you in the bush. Decreasing front camber, for the street should involve an equal decrease in rear negative camber and more negative toe-in. Keeping positive camber in the rear would result in massive rear spin-out and a tendency for the rear to command the front
To attain the control you desire, think what you want and can handle, align it BOTH front and rear(remember, inreasing roll stiffnes in the front will simply increase understeer, negate rear camber and increase its roll stiffnes to counter such measures.
I always believed that four tyres in contact with the road surface were safer than (for example)three wheels , one rear and both front as in frontwheel drive race sedans. Who am I to judge. Conchyjoe
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