I have discovered the secret of negative camber also... The infamous
oversteer on the front straight at long beach can be easily solved if
you put in a little more negative camber on all tires.
I beleive that the working theory here is that you want the tires to
fully contact the pavement when you are turning, not when you are
driving a straight line. So what you have to do is work out the
camber so that while you are driving straight, the tires are obviously
'out of camber' and when you are turning, the pressure and weight
transfer forces make the face of the tire contact the road evenly.
By the way, if your camber is set for turns and not the straights,
wouldn't the contact patch be smaller on the straights, thus producing
less drag, thus increasing speed on the straights?
>While trying to get a good set up for Elkhart, I noticed that the LR was
>1 degree cooler on the outside. I thought it best to set the camber a
>little more to the positive to even out the temp. This caused the car
>to want to oversteer on the dog-leg on the back straight. I then set
>the camber a little to the negative of the original and found that the
>car handled alot better on that point of the track. I also put in a
>little negative stagger to help the overstreer on the back straight.
>If you are having similar trouble on Long Beach or Road America you
>might want to play with the camber in the LR.
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>**************************** Michael E. Carver *************************
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