Effect of Front Camber on CSport

[superlight7]

Quick Dumpty Question

First real drive last weekend and car was clearly understeering - having just measured the camber its around 0 to -ve0.5

It was set up on Matadors when I bought it but now changed over to Radical Dunlops so if I adjust to -3ve what effect should I expect.

Not sure which wishbones I have so is there anyway to tell the two variants apart.

[BertBert]

I suspect you will struggle to get -3 on the old front wishbones which is how you might tell them apart. I am sure that there are many more knowledgable in this subject than me, but I think that 3 degrees neg might be a bit extreme. Maybe 1.5-2.0?

A bit of a shot in the dark from me!

Bert

[gaxor]

From memory (never a good reliable feature) I would have thought an improvement would be experienced in understeer., were the Matadors Radials? It sounds like you may have X-Ply settings I think we had about -2deg on the SR4. You will need the front wishbones with the fully adjustable(longer) top rosejoints

[SportsLibre]

My Clubsport had dreadful understeer. by checking the tyre temps/ pressures we altered the corner weights and the improvement was immediate, another run, more alteration more improvement.

Basically get the corner weights sorted before you change wishbones and camber etc.

Edited by SportsLibre on Friday 12th March 18:59

[lanan]

Ride height - Camber - Toes - Corner weights in that order and you shouldn't go far wrong.

In regard to your original question. Yes, you need considerably more camber, especialy at the moment.

[stiglet]

Angus

What are the correct settings for X/plies? It's about time I set the thing up properly

I'm only doing a couple of events this season so you can tell me

Cheers

JP (OP - sorry for the hijack)

[ScottHughes]

0.5-1 neg Front for X-plys, and 0 - 0.5 neg on the rear - 1.5-2.5 neg front for Radials a bit less on the rear..

[mabbott]

I think I said this some time ago, but until you know what settings are on the car currently all round, any changes are meaningless or at best guess work. Yes, the Dunlop runs a bit of camber, but do you know what else is on the car that is creating the understeer? I'd recommend you get the car measured and have some sensible baseline settings put on it especially as you have some nice rubber on it... I'll mail you what my car used to run on. No understeer problems ever and magic in the wet.

[stiglet]

Thanks Scott