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Old 03-12-2019, 10:00 AM   #162
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Fizban: i suggest slight toe-in in rear on RWD cars, thus including ours. Even stock alignment on twins has zero toe front and some toe in rear (though too much unprecise difference allowed imho). For example +0.1-0.2degree total toe-in rear (+0.5-0.1 each wheel (even between sides of course)). That should add some stability in rear, allowing a bit sooner opening accelerator coming out of corners, and less nervous car tracking straight on lacking grip (wet/ice/snow/gravel) pavement.
If you track often, i'd go for more camber, eg. starting with -3 front, -2.5 rear. Yes, it may very slightly worsen braking, but it's more then offset with extra grip/better contact patch/more even wear (instead of ripping tire outsides only) when cornering, due static negative camber compensating tire flex in turns. I'd consider lowering camber only if winter or rally gravel use matters, as there grip is lost way before lot of tire sidewall flex happens, or if track days are very rare and it's mostly daily driven only car, that driven within legal speedlimits don't see much side-Gs either. From what i noticed, slight drawback in handling for daily driven car with higher negative camber was a bit more tendency for car to follow road longitudinal grooves/tracks, to extent that i could live with, so i drive with track alignment daily too, reducing camber only in fall as part of winter prep.

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