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Yeah, I definately don't see any reason why you'd need more negative camber in the rear for a street car. The negative camber keeps the tires "flat" in cornering at speed but the SVX has a tendency to understeer long before the rear tires give out. I'm still trying to figure out how to get the rear of the race car to slide a bit and am even starting to think about removing the front sway bar to give it a bit more traction. If you're looking for a good balanced car I highly doubt the need for rear camber bolts at this point. That is unless you're running some weird combo of tires and wheels that change your overall diameter more than a 1/2" or so.
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Maybe someone has already done a different alignment on my car before I bought it. I can get the rear end to slide every time. I do keep quite a bit more pressure in my tires than most people though.
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47F/43R on 17 inch falken azenis sports. Crappy tires? No - these are teh sticky goodness I could slide the rear on my old yokohama avs sports also.
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Forgot you were wearing 17s. Did that change the overall diameter any? If so that could cause ya issues. I think you're running a little high for azenis (unless it is the newer azenis) in the front. Granted my experience with azenis is with a FWD XT6 but it does have similar handling charactaristics.
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Diameter changed very little - less than a percent. I got to this pressure the hard way - trial and error. Worked well enough to get me even tire wear through my first set of azenis, and now I am on my 2nd.
Cause me issues? Sounds more like you guys who are understeering are the ones with issues
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I got 25k on them of daily driving, a trip to the dragon (or was it 2?), and autocross. They were complete slicks when I was done with them.
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-Chike
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As I drive my SVX mostly on the street and don't plan on doing any major AutoXing this year, I'm thinking I'll have the following done tomorrow am:
Caster: factory setting Toe: '0' front & rear Camber: between -0.8* to -1.0* front; 0.0 rear This winter, I'll get a more aggressive alignment done in preperation for AutoXing in '06. -Chike
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I drove very slow when it rained. I didn't intend to wear them down that far but I was in the midst of a possible group buy on tires at that time and was trying to hold out. It finally fell through and the next day I replaced them.
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Back from the alignment shop...
...the place I had set up an appt with didn't have a machine to align an awd vehicle, so I drove just 5 minutes down the street to Bob's Wheel Alignment which has one of the only laser wheel alignment systems in Charlottesville, VA.
Talked to the technician about my driving style, and he gave me a set-up that he says his autoxing WRX/STI customers love: Caster: factory Toe: '0' front & rear Camber: -2.0* on both front wheels, -1.5* on both rear wheels He says this set-up with my summer tires should take the understeer out of the car in tight turns and keep the car planted at very high cornering speeds. Needless to say, he had to install a 'camber shift kit' (i.e. camber bolts) for the front and rear wheels that ran me an extra $60!!! All in all, the tab came to $122.50, and my car is now set-up to ride like it's on rails. -Chike P.S. We figured out why my passenger-side rear wheel was rubbing in tight turns...there was almost an 1/8" of toe-in! P.P.S. I know this is a lot of -ve camber to run on a street car, but I don't expect my current summer tires to last past the Fall. After that, I'll get four new tires and a slightly more conservative camber set-up.
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Chike,
Keep a check on the wear of the inside of the tires (a feathering of the tread). You should also begin to pick up tire noise from the feathering of the inside tread - kinda sounds like a bearing(?). And you CAN tell a difference, cann't you? I remember taking a Camaro into an off ramp (her was right on my butt!) at about twice the recommended speed and left him sliding and almost in the ditch - I bet he had never seen a car "stick" to the inside like I did that time - oh, I forgot. I also had my racing tires on coming from autocross . The look on the poor fellow's face (in my rear view mirror) when he realized he was going a bit too fast for the turn was priceless. Let us know how you think it improved the handling - especially the understeer. Harry
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I plan on keeping track of tread wear, as I don't want the inside of my tires wearing down to the cords too quickly. The technician was just saying that as most Subaru's have a 60/40 weight distn, running -2.0* front, and -1.5* rear dials out the understeer the factory dialed in... I'll have to test the limits of my car's handling somewhere safe, b/c on sticky summer rubber, I have to reach some pretty insane speeds in corners, before the tires even start to squeal! Definitely don't want my tires to break loose on the street going 70+ mph in a tight U-bend... I'll keep you updated. -Chike
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Chike,
Congrats on the alignment. The tech did set each wheel to the stated camber settings, right? You're actually running more negative camber on the front than I am! Given that you're still running 0 deg of toe - front and back - I really question the tech's statement that going to negative camber alone is going to take the understeer out. Harry is right to keep a close eye on your front tires - my ES100s are getting a nice "rounded" inner edge with the -1.5 front and back - and I've got a couple of thousand miles on them with this alignment set up. You might try upping the front tire pressure to around 50 psi just to see the effect on understeer (just make sure to bring the pressure down after you've felt what it does). The car can be made to be much more neutral - it just take the right optional OEM pieces -Bill
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