? Camber truss, are they worthwhile? Options

[PinetreePorsche]

I got a bunch of '80s vintage Panorama mags the other day. In most I found ads for "the Camber Truss" for street 911s and 914s--these made by Stable Energies. Supposedly it prevented tire roll on cornering. Was this more snake oil??--seems unlikely in Panorama for so many issues. If it was a good innovation, why don't I hear about them any more? Did Porsche re-design their later cars so that these wouldn't be needed? What's up with this? -Guess I'm still a novice.

[John]

For the front end, in a 911 it tied the tops of the struts together. The truss that I installed in a customer car attached at the tops of the strut cartridges and prevented the rubber bushings (and the strut tops) from moving. They had a turnbuckle setup so you could easily pre-load them. The real reason I liked them is that you could lock down one side and actually use the turnbuckle to dial in camber settings on the alignment machine in a very precise way and the setting would hold while the bolts are tightened down.

On a 911, I can see them preventing the strut tops from spreading or collapsing. On a 914, the only benefit I could see is that they eliminate the rubber bushing compliance and they would allow one to set the alignment precisely.