apart from looking like a sumo has sat you the bonnet of you car which i quite like that look what are the big bennifits of mad front camber? i am going to do this on my s14 road/drift car, so can any one with experience with mad front camber tell me the bid downfalls and benifits. cheers Callum
Mad camber, I have about 5 degrees on my E36 (if not a little bit more), looks jokes however it doesn't help front end grip I would imagine it actually makes it worse. Not much point as it fucks tyres up on the inner edge. I'm running e46 arms/spacers to allow for more lock so atleast it's functionally gay camber.
Also got about 5deg on my E36, on full lock the fronts go pretty straight up for more tyre contact, drive normally and its horrible, in fact the understeer is just shocking but while drifting its got good grip compared to when I had stock camber.
I run -4.5 with Toyo t1rs and it grips really well. Lots of self centre and feels awesome when sideways
I run 3.5 degrees on my s14 which is enough in my opinion had a friend that ran 7 degrees on his e36 and any sign of wet/damp it would barely turn a corner lol
The more lock you have on the more tyre to road contact when running lots of camber.. So... big camber when on big lock = win.. Big camber when on little lock = fail Pretty much anyway
More negative camber = less straight line grip. It'll feel wank for general use with -5 deg of camber. Poor on the brakes/turn in.
If you're doing it purely for looks, just have whatever camber you like. I ran about -4.5 for years, no problem.
5* is fine and isnt extreme. Im sure alot of peeps that say its bad probably havent tried it. I try every day to make my s14 understeer but its far far more oversteer biased at the limit. Ive ran mx5s with 6* front camber and it still had exact same balance between under and over steer and will slip all 4 wheels rather than front or rear
i am doing it for looks mainly but is a drift car and hopes to compete just dont want massive down fall when on track
