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I know this gets asked a lot, but I have to ask this anyway . I'll be going on track with just road tyres and I'm planning on the following settings:

Front
-2.0 deg left/right
-5.0+ deg castor
0 toe

Rear
-2.0 deg left/right
1mm toe (0.5mm both sides)

Would this be too aggressive to use on the road as well or I should be ok? Also, is there any reason to dial in more rear camber? Cos I've seen some people with more rear than front camber. Simple comment will do. Thanks.

Looks good, it'll be a tiny bit floaty on a straight line but should have good turn in and good grip.

I'm running -2.5 front with +5.5 castor and 2mm toe out, rear: -1.75 with 0 toe.

I used to have -2.55 and -2.19 on the rear with only -1.42 and -1.0 on the front that was very grippy in the rear but also understeered quite a bit on turn in. New one is great for initial bite and is fairly good on long open corners - but i've done the rear mainly for drift, till i get my new suspension, so for grip i'd got up to -2 camber.

Dave

Before I took my na6 on the track I set it up with -1.5 all round, 2mm toe in on the front with +4 castor on the left and +4.5 on the right(mostly a road car) and with 0.5mm toe in each side on the rear. I felt the rear was great but the front could do with a little more neg probably about -1.75 to -2.0, the toe felt good as the front wheels toe out under braking. Could probably do with a little more castor. I am just using road tyres and it still seems to be set up well for the road also.

Slugoid wrote:I know this gets asked a lot, but I have to ask this anyway . I'll be going on track with just road tyres and I'm planning on the following settings:

Front
-2.0 deg left/right
-5.0+ deg castor
0 toe

Rear
-2.0 deg left/right
1mm toe (0.5mm both sides)

Would this be too aggressive to use on the road as well or I should be ok? Also, is there any reason to dial in more rear camber? Cos I've seen some people with more rear than front camber. Simple comment will do. Thanks.

No probs at all but dropping the camber to -1.5 for on road will extend tyre life if it's a daily driver. The rest is spot on for dual duty or road only.

I got another question. Today I went for an alignment and decided to go a little less with the camber with around -1.65 or so (apparently that's the max I could go on once side). I drove out and notice that the steering was off center and tending towards the left, so i took it back to the aligner and he said he will fix it. Now it's a little better but still tends to the left.

I'm not really sure if that will happen when I go for more camber. I've got kings/koni with 16X7 rims and 205/45R16 tyres. Also this is the first time I've been to this alignment place, which my friend recommended, and I'm unsure if they are to blame or it's just my car.

Edit: I need some reply fast cos I'm going to Winton on Monday. Need to know if this is normal or should I get this sorted out at another place.

Another question:

Is it normal to have more neg camber on the right than the left? This is without the driver in the car.

Reason I'm asking is shouldn't it be the other way around? Since when the driver sits in the car, that will add more negative camber to the right hand side due to the weight. I assumed that more neg camber should be dialed in on the left to counteract this.

I was just reading my alignment specs and noticed that on both front and rear there is more camber on the right instead.