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Old 04-05-2016, 05:49 PM   #9
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It's not that black & white clear, like if one is made for track, other one - for street.
Simply toe is one of most affecting tire wear alignment settings, hence rarely "for street" default factory stock alignment deviates much from zero toe.
Toe in's extra self-stabilizing can be very handy both on street and track, especially on end with driving wheels, allowing opening accelerator after turn faster with driving end less prone to loose traction..
And that touted steering response from toe-out .. it can also result in something that twitchy to handle that may kill confidence in driver and make him push less, or even rather dangerous at high speeds. IIRC toe-out on our cars may make sense only if your slice of bread is not HPDE/track driving, but drifting only, and you want to keep using stock NA (under)powered engine, that may benefit from some help for intentionally loosing traction in power oversteering. Otherwise imho both on street and on track better leave front zero toe, and rear - slight toe in (if not going overboard, it won't grow tire wear too much). It will be safer and will let average driver push more. Be it on track, or .. yeah, on street aswell.
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