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Old 08-06-2025, 09:07 PM   #5
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I don't really think it's critical to have more front camber than rear. For handling balance during hard cornering, it *is* important to have a decent amount of front camber, but there are other things that are more important.

On my '17 BRZ PP on lowering springs and stock Sachs dampers I ran -3.2 front camber from camber plates and -2.8 rear camber from lowering, and it understeered. Not enough front suspension travel. Going to Bilsten B8s helped a lot but I'd still get understeer around some corners (T4 running Palmer Motorsports Park clockwise was maddening).

On my '23 with RCE SS-2 coilovers (with non-standard 7F/9R spring rates), initially I was limited to -2 front camber and again at around -2.8 rear from lowering. And that setup's balance was *brilliant*, I was amazed at how well it pointed compared to the old car (despite "worse" F/R camber split). I've since been able to get the front camber up to -3.5, but honestly the handling balance at the track is not hugely different. Tire wear is more even though...

Anyway I see all the time people think they need adjustable rear control arms to reduce rear camber on lowered cars to get "more front camber than rear". Honestly, you don't... On a lowered car with front camber limited to, say, -2, and rear naturally getting -2.8 from lowering, it is not that big a deal and IMO you won't really affect the handling balance much if at all by reducing rear camber to less than the front.

Anyway, -1.15 is pretty modest camber even for a street-only car IMO. You could go -2.0, -2.5, even -3.0 is streetable as long as toe is kept minimal.

Edit/Addendum: Of course street only there's zero need for -3, still street only I'd probably go with something like -2 minimum up front, and whatever results from lowering in back with the stock suspension arms (-2.8 degrees at about 330mm ride height in my experiences).

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