camber settings, What are you guys running? Options

[914dave]

Won't be long til we're off to alignment and corner balance. The car is mostly street use and probably a monthly autocross. 21mm bars up front and 180# adjustable coilovers in the rear. 23mm front sway bar and the front spindles are raised 19mm. Torque bias limited slip and a stock rear sway bar.
Are you guys running stock settings? I don't mind a little more aggressive but it's not an all out competition car. I'll sacrifice a little more tire wear for performance. What have you guys run that works?

[Dave_Darling]

A starting point:

-1.5 camber rear.
-1.0 camber front.
A little toe-in all the way around. (On the order of 1/16" total.)
Max-ish caster in front, about 6 degrees.

In general on a street car you want to keep the toe-in on all four corners. For an autoX specialist, going with a small amount of toe-out in the front can help the car to turn in a bit better. But the car becomes more "dirty" and you have to be able to constantly pay attention to where it is going--look away for a moment and it is liable to change lanes on you.

More negative camber can help grip in the corners, but that's at the expense of uneven tire wear, and often a little bit of traction in braking.

Note that with a car at or near stock ride height you can max out the negative camber relatively easily. Some cars won't give you more than about 2 degrees worth without lowering or other modifications.

--DD