Note: This is not about whether or not to get a camber kit or about camber/toe wear at all.

My question is will my car behave much different I have -2.0 degress of camber in the front and -0.5 degress in the rear as opposed to -2.0 in the front and -2.5 in the rear? Or is it optimal to have them as equal as possible to each other.

 

How the car reacts to changes in camber isn't dictated by your front/rear camber ratio, or how your front and rear camber are related - they function indepdently of each other.

On the street, you will not need as much negative camber as you would on a track car, because you are typically running softer spring rates and you will not be taking corners very hard or fast. The only benefit of negative camber is increased contact patch during cornering. The downside of negative/positive camber is decreased straight-line performance, namely braking. During daily driving, braking (and accelerating) is more important than cornering, in which case lots of negative camber isn't necessary or even benefcial.

Generally though people will stick with whatever negative camber they get just from lowering their cars. eg. I got -2.2 in the front and -1.8 in the rear IIRC on my DB8, I had no issues with daily driving.

 

Thanks for the input. So you're saying that if I did in fact run very little camber in the rear and a lot in the front, it wouldn't affect the way my car handles on the street?


Modified by EK k kay at 12:17 PM 8/27/2006

 

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exactly.

 

the camber that you run in the rear affects your handling. yes.

what the camber is relative to the front is not the issue.

handling is more than just the rear, or just the front. its everything together with many factors. but its not a direct relationship comparing front and back numbers.