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Originally Posted by Johnybeas
However correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't camber caster plates and adjustable lca's help with the change in offset?
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Not really. Not on a McPherson strut design anyway. On a double wishbone suspension this can be played with. However on a mac. design, the axis of the strut is the steering pivot, and its also a stressed member of the suspension. No matter how you play with the camber, the pivot will always be in the same relation to the wheel.
You want the wheel to pivot in the center of the tires contact patch when you turn. Extremes off offset/backspacing on the wheels will either make you pivot on the outside of the contact patch, or the inside. Neither is good when your looking for that last bit of grip. camber plates just shift the contact patch left or right. However having to get extremes on the camber to do this is only a bandaid on other chassis flaws.
On tarmac events in rally, we tend to run zero camber front and rear to get the most grip we can. But then again, weeks are spent on suspension tuning and you can only truly get away with this in AWD classes of cars. FWD or RWD need additional camber to aid with chassis stability and steering. In AWD, we just gun it and the car tends to bring itself around
