What are your opinions on negative camber, from a looks perspective?

[86-tundra]

I'm curious to see what everyone's thoughts are on excessive negative camber. I know it has functional benefits, but aesthetically, do you like the look?

Personally, I find it disgusting. I would never lower my car so low that I need negative camber to prevent fender rub. I also think it looks pretty trashy and am not a fan of seeing these cars with high negative camber.

For purposes of the poll, significantly more cambered than stock

[s2d4]

What do you consider high?

[86-tundra]

Originally Posted by s2d4

What do you consider high?

Good point. I updated the OP. Anything more than stock.

[feldy]

Stock wheels with lots of neg camber ugly. Nice fat wheels with lots of camber sexy.

[s2d4]

Originally Posted by trevorovert

Good point. I updated the OP. Anything more than stock.

Here is the dilemma, stock rear is ~-1.7, front is ~0.

Does that mean that the front can be ~1.7 as well?

[mango]

I prefer function over hard parking, especially on a car like the FR-S

[Ocean-Grown 86]

Functional negative camber looks aggressive. I like a good stance too, but I hate hellaflush camber.

[mfbmike]

Originally Posted by feldy

Nice fat wheels with lots of camber sexy.

265/35 tires and -2 degrees of camber.

[MeFryRice]

I hate high-cambered cars that are driven on the street for the purpose of trying to fit an improper fitting wheel. If its for a car that is tracked then yes, I like it because the car is actually putting the camber use.

[bkblitzed]

you should have just named this thread, hella flush is hella retarded Y/N

[switchlanez]

"For purposes of the poll, anything more negative than stock" is a little vague. Allowable factory camber spec is -1.3 front and -2.4 rear (per http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7918). Being at the limits of factory camber is visually noticeable compared to typical factory camber (0 front and -0.5 rear) but still factory spec. So are you referring to anything more negative than -1.3 front and -2.4 rear or anything more negative than typical (0 front and -0.5 rear)?

The following TRD 86es have their camber plates maxed out likely beyond factory spec but are still visually tasteful.

[86-tundra]

Do we really have to get into the technicals? The question I'm asking is pretty obvious

[TylerLieberman]

^Not really



There's more to camber than just running it so wheels don't rub.

[OICU812]

Too high=what? As others have said
Stance no I don't care for that, but that is one persons desire so that is fine?


Too many variables really. Stock ft camber sucks in comparison to having even -1.5 for example you don't need to be a track star to notice the improvement in simple spirited driving. -1 to -2 degrees ft or rear IMO looks perfectly fine "looks wise" past that well then I need to evaluate if it for function, if so that's good on them.

All I can say is that with this platform having a good alignment and having "some" negative camber up front is heaps better then stock function wise so that will over run what I think a tad of negative looks like.

For my own personal needs I will not exceed -2 ft or rear and that is a very functional range for "me". Guys who are tracking regularly will and do use -3 to -4 range up front and that is perfectly understandable. IMO (0) up front is not right for a sports car to begin with. Conclusion, straight up and down on this car looks "not good" mostly cause I know the benefits of having camber on "this car"