Rear camber for a V8, Too slippery even with 11" out back Options

[Dr. Roger]

So here's what I'm experiencing.

Under hard acceleration, in gears 2,3,4, I can break it loose with just a twitch of the steering wheel. 5th I cannot as it is a flipped H.

I looked at the car from the rear and realized I've got probably 3 degrees of negative camber on each side. I'm thinking those 11" Pilot Sports are probably only making contact with half of the tread. The inner half.



Is their an adjustment balance of negative camber, for maximum traction, under hard acceleration and hard turning?

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[Dave_Darling]

First suggestion: Don't "twitch" the steering wheel! If you mean that the car tries to swap ends when you smoothly feed in some steering input, then yeah--you may have a problem. But if you mean the car gets squirrelly when you give a quick little jerk to the wheel, your problem isn't the car...

Negative camber (to a point) will help in the corners. It won't help so much on the straights. -3 is probably a bit more than you really would like to see for a street car, so try dialing it back to about -2 degrees and see if that helps.

Check the toe angle. If there's any toe-out, that will cause the tail to move around a lot. You want some toe-in, particularly at the rear!

A stiffer rear sway bar and/or stiffer rear springs will usually make the car oversteer more, which doesn't sound like what you want.

--DD