Hi,
my car is lowered 3-4 inches, I have blox rear lca's. And I have a front and rear camber kit.
I want to know what the camber setting stuff is; I tried searching.
So is this rite?
/\ negative camber
\/ positive camber
What are the best settings for road racing? I read negative in back and positive or stock in front.
I want to try and adjust it for a good balance of performance and life.
So if you guys can share some of your knowledge, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks =D

 

the great thing about racing is there is no formula to perfectly set up a car.
im no race car driver, but what i think is this.

use an adjustable camber setup, adjust over and over until you are happy.

no one can give you a magical answer, a good setup requires everything to work together, tires, suspension, the whole shabang.

depends on camber, caster, toe, tire compound, tire pressure, type of track, temp of track, driving style, etc etc etc.

 

^ i agree with him.

its not as easy as adjust rear camber -.5*, and you're the best cornering machine ever.
it takes a little work and some tuning and messing with your suspension setup/how you drive to find the right settings for you

 

enough said

 

ha, looks like I'll be busy. But I wanted to know, just for a general guideline to get me started. Like, rear negative camber does what and such

 

never set camber to positive.

-2.5 front and -1.5 in rear is fine, typical. then dont even touch it til you can say your driving skills are up to par.

me and my buddy (joe bd-0) have been working all year shaking down our new H4 car, but the biggest thing we've needed to work on is the 2 nuts behind the wheel (the drivers). we didnt even touch the settings on the shocks all year. just set the toe alignment and recheck.

 

Each track demands a different setting. Like Tyson mentioned is a good starting point. But, to set it for a certain track, you do the following:

1) Set a base tire pressure cold. Do a couple of laps and come in the pits. Have someone measure the tires temp. (interior, middle and exterior). Write them down including the pressure hot. Ideal is to have tire temp to be close to each other, 10 degrees difference and reach max recommended tire pressure.

2) Adjust less tire pressure if too hot in the middle. Adjust more camber if too hot outside the tire. Adjust less camber if too hot inside the tire.

This will take many trials on the racetrack.

 

or just go with whatever is fastest.

this is all moot if the OP hasnt even driven on track before and still asking about positive camber.

 

Seat time would be best so that he understand more about car dynamiques.