Jim,
Picked up my s2k used and finally discovered rear and front were both tweaked (negative) enough to ware out the insides of the o2's. Now running new wheels and rubber and want it to last, but might start cone dodging next spring. What suggestions do you have for setting camber on the s2k?
Nick

 

Just run the smallest amount of camber and rear toe in theat the Honda spec allows. This will give you the longest tread life. The problem would come in the spring when you autocross. The negative camber is a good thing for racing. You have to decide where the priority is.

Jim

 

Jim,
Thanks for the advice.
Nick

 

Hopefully you have a friend at an allignment shop that would be willing to adjust it for you for street and track use...

What I do is enroll in occupation schools with allignment coarses and just go to school when I need something done...

As far as camber for the street jim had the right idea with little camber and toe...

For auto-x negative is good, but too much may affect braking...

Take time to fine tune your settings, GOOD LUCK!!!

Philip

 

2005 update. Now have burned thru insides of another set of rears. Have run UK & inSaini's alignemts. Car can get unstable on highway at high speeds due to auto x alignment. ( Not much rubber on the pavement with max neg camber auto-x setup.) Going back to WGI on 7/4 with UK specs. Car was great in WGI's corners with Saini's alignment just twitchy on highway.

 

I am running the following:

Front:
Camber -1
Toe 0

Rear:
Camber -2.2
Toe in .14 each side

I am not to concerned with tire wear. I went through the S02's in 10k miles at stock settings and that was with flipping the front tires once. I should get almost the same wear since these settings are not that far off from the max factory settings.

 

im gonna be running

225/40
285/30

and i was thinking along the lines -0.05 front and -0.09 rear?

what would you guys say is optimal for street/track

my old civic i ran the above #'s and i found any more.. the brakes wouldnt grab as hard b4 breaking traction and the rears had camber wear.

@ 250$ each for my rear tires i wanna minimize camber wear but not have a bland handling car

 

That's not enough camber in the rear. You have a lot more oversteer. Incorrect toe will give you more tire wear than camber will.

 

yeah i know toe is worse than camber..

whats good #'s in your opinion.


ive heard -1.5 for rear.. but front?

i know i want 0 toe.. regardless of the oversteer/understeer charachteristics of toe..

i just want to set camber to compliment the car..

like i said 225/40 285/30 so the car will naturally understeer so id like to have camber in front to reduce the understeer.

 

rijowysock, are those yokohmas that you're running that are 225 and 285????