check the toe settings. camber alone won't eat up good quality tires really fast. excessive toe + camber definitely will.

i'm at 2.3 degress neg camber and my kumho MX's have gone for 13,000 miles and still has got life left in them. and i beat the hell out of all my tires. i toasted the stock set in about 6,000 miles with the stock suspension settings.

 

Our cars have a stock camber kit that allows you to play with the camber? How many degrees of adjustment does it have?

 

Those adj ball joints actually only works on the rear if you have bigger wheels.... they won't work with 16" wheels.... and..... it is for MORE camber (for racing mostly).

I had those on the front of my racing S2000 (the fronts will fit with 16" wheels), and could go with -5.0 camber (or more)....


Like everyone said, just get your car aligned......

 

The stock suspension allows for adjustment of camber and toe in the rear and camber, caster, and toe in the front.

 

Yes you guys are right in getting the car aligned first.

My left and right rears were so off that my tire wear would not be pretty. Ideally if your car is dropped the best you can do is compromise and go for within a 0.5 degree variance. You won't be able to get it in spec but that's normal.

Both my front and rears were out of spec range from OEM but it's pretty close now and I'm happy.

Caster and Toe-in also play crucial roles in tire wear. Just look at the NSX - main reason it eats up tires every 10k miles is because of the aggressive rear toe-in factor.

When I put some more miles on these Toyo's I'll report back.


rick

 

[QUOTE=s4play,May 18 2006, 05:38 PM]Ideally if your car is dropped the best you can do is compromise and go for within a 0.5 degree variance.

 

With stock suspension and tires, you're definitely limited in how much neg. camber you can run in the rear. (Usually, no more than -2deg) A good alignment person can get you that, to go beyond -2, you have a few other options:

If you go to an aftermarket coilover setup, you should be able to add much more. Another option is to add the Go Fast Lab bump-steer kit. A big handling plus on pre '04s is the main reason for the kit, but the tie rods included in the kit are adjustable in length and allow for much greater negative camber (up to -6 deg)

To maximize negative camber in the front, GFL is now selling billet adjustable A-arms that will allow up to -8 deg, but they're kind of expensive.

When using lots of neg. camber, just remember to swap your tires from side to side after about 5k miles or the inside tread will wear out long before the outside.

 

dont need kit


camber doesnt hurt tires anywhere near as much as toe.. if u have tread problems... align toe and leave camber.

our doublewish bone setups love camber

 

So you're saying that negative camber doesn't wear out tires faster, and that you don't need any aftermarket parts to get as much camber as you want?

Um... can I get some of what you're smoking?

 

negative camber does.. but most people that proclaim they have "camber" wear have toe wear and do not know the difference..

camber wear is very minimal esp on our light cars..

now toe.. just eats the shit outa tires

im runing -3* F and -4* R camber and tires r fine..