OTG neg camber plates!!! Finally

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09-06-2005, 02:10 AM

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GrantR

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Originally Posted by ScionVan

Anyway, on the subject of performance, negative camber actually is used to help augment a car's cornering. There's some pretty good technical reads on the subject that can be googled on the net. But there is a point of diminishing returns; you don't get better performance with more negative camber... but again, that's why most of the Scion rear camber kits are not meant for performance, so you can't expect to get better cornering from them, although I am personally curious to gather some info on how much exactly they do affect performance numbers. It'd be interesting to get feedback from someone who autoxes or road races their car about their before and after impressions of running something like the OTG camber shims.

Nice products, Van

I don't yet have an xA (it's on order), but I've been researching what I want to do with it, which is basically to throw on suspension to make it fun to drive. I'm used to autocrossing my MR2 Turbo and vette Z06 so of course having my daily driver handle well is important to me

So I'm looking into ways to get more rear camber for better traction.

3 degrees may be too much for performance purposes. Have you considered offering a variety of different plates to provide different camber amounts? for instance maybe 0.5 degree increments from -1.5 to -3.0. If I were to buy some I'd probably want to go for about -2.0 to -2.5 at the rear, since -3.0 is a little too much for nothing more than spirited street driving. I run -3.0 up front on my MR2 but that's because it gets autocrossed - tire wear is not a factor.

I don't know enough about small FWD cars with these weird torsion bar rear suspensions to have any idea about what camber or toe is best, unfortunately