Well I'll be interested to see how it performs on a road course with even less ride height than that, less suspension travel and that much rear camber with stretched tires. This car tends to understeer at the limit when it's much lower and stiffer without R compounds, even then it requires lots of driving skill to really get the most out of it. Check this thread out:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10643
Specifically, regarding camber:
Quote:
"One thing we noticed is that the car has a fairly low roll center and if the car is lowered much at all the lower control arms will point upward with the roll center quickly ending up below ground. This will do two things that are not so great; the car will have a large roll couple and a strong tendency to roll which must be countered with stiff springs and/or swaybar. However the FR-S does have a very low center of gravity due to the low slung boxer engine so perhaps this may still be tolerable.
Next due to the angularity of the lower arm when lowered, the front suspension will lose negative camber under roll which will reduce grip and even lead to understeer in a low car unless a lot of static negative camber is dialed in or roll is greatly reduced with stiff suspension. Big negative camber hurts braking traction and causes the car to be road crown sensitive and tramline on cracks and grooves. Being too stiff hurts mechanical grip. Whiteline if you are reading this, this car really needs your long shank ball joints and tie rod ends to correct the roll center. Make some right away please. Maybe your Subaru kit might fit. The best solution before the aftermarket responds might be to not lower the car more than 1.5” or so."
-Mike Kojima http://www.motoiq.com/magazine_artic...cion-fr-s.aspx
What's a roll center?
Fairly good reference article
http://www.onedirt.com/tech-stories/...r-roll-center/
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I like the red tails against the red paint.