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Camber your way through corners!

Source: Motorheader Street Racing in India

Jun 07, 2009

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I always wanted to lower my car by installing lowering springs and upgrade the dampening system as well to compliment the springs to perform some amount of shock absorption to give a comfortable ride. While doing such a mod the camber angle of the wheels changes and this leads to greater wear and tear and more stress on the tires and directly affecting the handling of the car. So in case you want better handling you might not want lower the car at all unless you want just style.

The camber adjustment kits alter the angle of the vertical axis of the wheels. What does this contraption do to a car you may wonder? The camber assists and improves handling of a car with better traction and road holding capabilities of the wheels. The camber angles are of two types Negative camber and Positive camber. Its like this, when you look at the wheels facing the front side of the car and if you see the bottom part of the wheel angled to be pushed out further than the top point of the wheel then its negative camber and positive camber when the top portion of the tyre is pushe ...Read the full article

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