Mad Negative Camber. Why?
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OnTheOverrun said:
Acehood said:
You mean this kind of thing? I don't really understand it but it's not up to me what other people do with their cars
It is if the things they do to their car mean their insurance is invalid and they crash into you. . . . . . . .Buffalo said:
nicky.mattsson said:
Is it for handling?
Nick
I ran nearly 3 degrees neg camber on my Race set up (road registered) MG for a while, unintentionally, but it was nonetheless set up correctly. It was not very pleasant, in most situations the handling suffered because the tyre contact was smaller - it certainly felt it. To handle well in the bends you had to be heavy handed with it to get the car to lean over onto the tyre patch. This is not sustainable driving for 9 out of 10 drives on public roads. Nick
Having said that I once over-cooked it by accident and thought I was a gonna, but no, it canked over, sat down hard on the full tyre patch and I went round like I was on rails. I would have been astounded had I not been on my hands and knees praying!
I seriously don't know where people are getting this idea that the VW boys actually dial in the neg camber and make it look like, all cars have negative camber when you drop it an inch off the floor that increase the negative camber you can then dial out the negative camber, but at when they are that low you will just be ripping the wings and tyres apart.
Some of them have had negative camber added, but most of the time it is due to being an inch of the floor, if you want the opposite way and lifted a car it would end up with positive camber
Some of them have had negative camber added, but most of the time it is due to being an inch of the floor, if you want the opposite way and lifted a car it would end up with positive camber
irf said:
petrolsniffer said:
looks stupid and eventually its dangerous
Yes that is a honda mpv with a bmw front...
i know i shouldn't but i'm liking that a lot!Yes that is a honda mpv with a bmw front...
pits said:
I seriously don't know where people are getting this idea that the VW boys actually dial in the neg camber and make it look like, all cars have negative camber when you drop it an inch off the floor that increase the negative camber you can then dial out the negative camber, but at when they are that low you will just be ripping the wings and tyres apart.
Some of them have had negative camber added, but most of the time it is due to being an inch of the floor, if you want the opposite way and lifted a car it would end up with positive camber
I know, where did anyone get that idea?Some of them have had negative camber added, but most of the time it is due to being an inch of the floor, if you want the opposite way and lifted a car it would end up with positive camber
Most cars have negative camber to a certain extent - it's to help keep the most amount of tyre on the road; Under hard cornering the outside wheels, backs especially, will try to roll off the tyres onto the rims - so negative camber combats this (think of it like leaning on a motorbike).
Lowering a car tends to exaggerate the camber, as most cars don't have a method of adjusting camber decently.
The Dubbers have taken this and, as is their way with such things, made it into a competitive visual statement. After all, there's little point in worrying about the handling or grip on an old Beetle or belly scraping Mk.1 Golf with stretched tyres
Lowering a car tends to exaggerate the camber, as most cars don't have a method of adjusting camber decently.
The Dubbers have taken this and, as is their way with such things, made it into a competitive visual statement. After all, there's little point in worrying about the handling or grip on an old Beetle or belly scraping Mk.1 Golf with stretched tyres
My old Polo was lowered on coilovers, had 6 degreees overall camber on the front, handled really well in the twisties but felt twitchy on the straight. Tyres would last around 700 miles but I did it for the style.
Dont care if you hate it end of the day, I loved it & thats all that matters.
Dont care if you hate it end of the day, I loved it & thats all that matters.
DubZeus said:
My old Polo was lowered on coilovers, had 6 degreees overall camber on the front, handled really well in the twisties but felt twitchy on the straight. Tyres would last around 700 miles but I did it for the style.
Dont care if you hate it end of the day, I loved it & thats all that matters.
erm. the front camber is quite adjustable on those Polos. You could have had it at 2 degrees and still the same height! Dont care if you hate it end of the day, I loved it & thats all that matters.
DubZeus said:
My old Polo was lowered on coilovers, had 6 degreees overall camber on the front, handled really well in the twisties but felt twitchy on the straight. Tyres would last around 700 miles but I did it for the style.
Dont care if you hate it end of the day, I loved it & thats all that matters.
"Felt twitchy on the Straight...700 miles on tyres" PrickDont care if you hate it end of the day, I loved it & thats all that matters.
Hahaha , "the style" in a car that absolutely nobody except other drooling idiots would pay the slightest bit of attention to, at enormous cost in tyres! That's really cheered me up - no matter how stupid I feel when I f
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