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Re: Negative Camber and Cross Ply Tires

To: wdayton@attglobal.net, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Negative Camber and Cross Ply Tires
From: N197TR4@cs.com
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 20:10:15 EDT
I went from BF Groodrich to Hoosiers TDs. Did not change my camber and 
noticed no difference in tire wear pattern.

Joe Alexander


> I find that the recent notes on the subjects of Hoosier tires and
> negative camber happening at the same time too tempting. I have heard
> some "paddock chatter" to the tune of "negative camber is good stuff for
> radials - like our much-loved Yokos - but cross bias tires don't like it
> so much".
> 
> Considering the fact that I have a box full of TR6 etc suspension bits
> ready to apply to the TR3A combined with the real prospect that once the
> Yokos I have are worn out, the next option is likely to be Vintage TDs,
> I'm starting to wonder - why am I doing this? But I always thought that
> the main benefit of the negative camber was to enable the "working"
> (outside) tire to work better under hard cornering, so why would it be
> different for different tire types?
> 
> I know this is a vexed area that will have millions of different
> answers, but I'm just curious - is there some truth to the idea that
> cross-ply tires are different?

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