As you can tell from all my other posts, I'm setting up my coilovers and wondered what others are getting for camber. I have the kinetix adjustable rear toe and camber bars. Obviously I can't adjust the front camber. What is optimal? What are you all getting. I'm dropping the car ~2" total. I figure that should put the front camber ~ -2 degrees. Any thoughts?

 

It really depends on the tire. A Kumho takes less than a Hoosier. The front will want more than the rear. Too bad your front is not adjustable. Time for some camber plates??

You should be able to get a good reading while at Savanah from the last sweeping turn. The trick is to have someone who can take some tire temps. From there you can make a proper judgement call.

You also want to get a good camber gauge. I use the Smart Camber unit. Digital and easy to use for the most part.

-2 degrees may be enough. Only testing will tell. On the WRX I need 1.5 more than my 68 year old partner. So driving styles and speed in the turns will require different settings.

Alan

 

Thanks Alan,
I'm going to keep using my Toyo T1S streets so I can stay in class and ease into figuring out my suspension for the next 2 HPDEs. I'll be at Roebling w/ THSCC and then BMW on July 3,4. After that, I'll get some RA1s.

 

I have mine at about -1.7 all around, and there is very minimal tire wear on the inside of the tire. Since the car is quite stable and the tire wear is near perfect, I'm pretty happy where the camber is now. That might change with R compounds though...

 

negative camber wont eat tires as much as toe in/out

 

John, how did you get that much front camber? Just from running the car lower on the coilovers?

I'm anxiously awaiting the camber arms from BJ since I'm completely stock right now and have about -0.80 degrees in front. This is not good for my hoosiers! I don't want to lower the car because I won't be able to drive around in Manhattan anymore if the car is any lower, so that's why I'm going with the adjustable arms. Plus, I like the stock look.

I figure that once I get the a-arms I'll go to about -2.5 in front. At the rear, I'm at about -1.8 (stock).

 

Well, I just had an alignment done and ended up with -2 on both rears, -2 front left and -2.7 front right. (Adjustable rear bars, stock front) That is with ~1 3/4" drop, now to get it corner weighted.

 

JIC FLT-A2 coilovers 10kg/mm F and R
350 Evo adjustable Sway bars F and R
Performance Nissan Racing Adj. Upper control arms (F)
JIC traction and camber rods

Ride height: F 5” R 5 ½” from the ground
Front Camber 2.6 degrees
Front Toe: 0
Rear Camber: 1.9 degrees
Rear Toe: In .025”

The best track settings I came up with were these on Streets of Willow…lots of tight turns, no high speed sweepers.

Front sway bar: Med
Rear sway bar: Soft
Front damper: 8 clicks
Rear damper: 10 clicks
Front tire pressure (on dogshit Kumho Ecsta 712’s): 35psi cold
Rear tire pressure: 32psi cold

 

 

BJ - Stop taunting me... When can I get them?