lowered cars what are your toe settings?

Huge negative camber (which you are already using), on wide (especially low profile) tires, gives bad enough wear on the inside tire tread area in street use - as does running a lot of toe-in -- but, when used together, the inside tire wear goes up exponentially (and 3/32" toe-in is already towards the upper side of usual street car spec toe-in ranges).

Why the huge negative camber (or is that the nominal ballpark for a stock 350z)? You need the extra tire-to-coachwork clearance at the top of the tire; you like the DTM look; it is used like a DTM car ; the lowering shifted the camber adjustment range, and -2.6 deg is the new minimum without modification?

 

I'm running -1 in the front, -2 in the rear, 0 toe in the front, ~.2 toe in the rear, S2000 lowered 1.25". I actually ordered new coilovers yesterday to get me closer to -2" height and ill probably keep the same alignment as long as I can fit a 255 in the rear, I have fairly aggressive wheels. That said I had my wheels off last month and noticed a decent amount of camber wear on the rears, tires have about 10k on them so not too bad but I do need to get the rears swapped.

 

Yes, it is -- just not a double, mega-boatload of both On cars with a rearward weight bias, they tend to run a little more rear toe in order to have the outboard (more heavily loaded) rear tire sort of pre-pointing in the direction that you'd like it to go when cornering (but people b*tch about the low tire life). For absolute maximum peformance, you'd probably need to run even more camber (I wasn't kidding about the DTM cars -- every time I see one the thought that flashes into my head is "is the front suspension broken?" ) so like most things, you have to define what "best" means for you in the trade-off between best absolute performance and best tire life.

I'd agree more with this statement back in the days when the tire aspect ratios were in the 75~80% range -- i.e., the tire sidewalls were much longer and more flexible so the loading across the tread didn't change with camber as much as it does today with these uber low sidewall tires.

 

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