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Originally Posted by relentless717
maslin and 86MLR .....Thank you very much for your feedback !!
I am really surprised that there is not more information about alignment setups.
All the best........!!
I don't track, but love agressive setups for running the twisties.....!!!
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There is some general rule of thumb settings
But, each car has different tyres, shocks, swaybars, tyre pressures, all of these factors will effect how your car uses its tyres
Track setting on a street car can be problematic, you will lose braking distance, and your tyres will never really get warm and sticky when you are driving to work, so the grip will not be optimised, same with tyre softness, a soft warm tyre can use more camber than a all season.
Street setting on a track will kill your tyres.
Back when I was tracking my cars would have multiple setups, street and track, different tyres, ride heights and alignment setting.
My street set up was easy, the track set up depended on what I was doing and where I was doing it
My Skyline ended up with 3 sets of tyres and rims, street, circuit and drag radials
Speaking of which, when I went to the drags I would wind in 0° rear camber to try and get as much tyre on the road as I could
Sounds complicated, you bet, I had my little black book with different setups for different locations, weather conditions, tyres pressures, did I go overboard, hell yes, but I found the whole thing part of the fun.
Nowadays I just hit the streets and do the occasional maaaad skid, I've always been a hoon, now I'm a old slower hoon