I was looking at my Spitfire today as I was loading my R/C racing
equipment in it, and realized something. The front wheels have positive
camber (Tops of the wheels are farther out than the bottoms). I know
from my experience with the little cars that this makes for very
inefficient cornering. This is because as the car corners, the weight
is pushed to the outside wheel. The car also leans toward the outside.
If the wheel have positive camber, you get even less of your tire on the
road than if you had none. Does anybody know if these principles hold
true on full size cars (I can't imagine why not), and if the camber can
be adjusted to either zero or possibly one or two degrees of negative
camber?
Andy L.
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