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Old Oct 11, 2008 | 11:33 PM
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negetive camber question

how bad is it to have a DD evo with negative camber font and rear? have some rims that have +20 offset so i have to run camber. whats the bad and good. about it tire wear?
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Old Oct 12, 2008 | 02:20 AM
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It depends on the camber. I have put plenty of miles on cars with 2 degrees of camber or more. If the car is really well aligned with 0 toe, the tire wear is accelerated some but it's usually only (rough guess) 10 to 20 faster than normal.

However if the alignment shop just slaps the alignment in and doesn't get everything dead on or leaves even a tiny bit of toe (in or out) your tires will wear much faster - figure cutting tire life by half (or even more) if you don't catch it and get it fixed.

Camber alone is a pretty minor increase in tire wear, but it compounds any toe or thrust angle problems noticeable.
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Old Oct 12, 2008 | 05:34 AM
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My DD has almost -2 up front and over -1 in back. As stated, zero toe is key.
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Old Oct 12, 2008 | 10:48 AM
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can I ask what offset your running smikevo? Sounds good feeling even better about throwing my rims on and DDing it
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Old Oct 12, 2008 | 02:32 PM
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Stock rims
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Old Oct 12, 2008 | 03:01 PM
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really stockers what made you run camber on them
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Old Oct 12, 2008 | 03:08 PM
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If you set it up with 0 Toe you can easily run up to -2* of camber without worrying about changing tires often. I ran -4* on the rear of my eclipse gsx for almost 2 years and didn't have to change tires at all. Toe was at 0.
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Old Oct 12, 2008 | 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by evol ways
really stockers what made you run camber on them


Well...its still daily driven - a lot. I average 25k a year

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