Oval+Camber=my Q

[pudder]

I have an oval track at my house. It is not too small either. The track is basicly flat, but my Q was would this help me get better laps having the camber thusly:

\<L R> \

I don't know if you will understand that, but the inside tire (L) and the outside tire (R) having camber like that, not that much, but you can get what I am saying.

Would that help me at all?

-mike

[mocrcracer]

That would be negative camber there pudder (the only camber I would run). Im really not sure what kind of camber youd run for oval. But the amount of camber shouldnt be more than your roll center allows. Negative camber allows more tire contact in the corner as the car rolls on the outside tires. The tire gets pushed from its angled state to an more upright position when the suspension compresses. Start with about -1 degree of camber all the way around then go from there. Or since youre running oval try 0 degrees on the left and about -1 degrees on the right. If youre confused about the degrees they sell special gauges that measure the camber in degrees.

[Mark98SS]

If you run the oval left turns: several degrees of neg camber in the right front & prolly zero or 1+ in the left front. You can tell by tire wear.

[ILv2Xlr8]

pudder,
you are correct with your camber assumption.
Looking from the rear of the car towards the front as if you were the driver, the camber of the front wheels should look like this:
\-----\
ie negative camber on the Right, and positive camber on the Left.

As its already been stated, this will increast the tires contact patch in the corners.

For a typical oval <200' run line, starting at about where mark stated should get you started with negative 2-3° on the right side, and about positive 0-2° on the left side.

How many degrees of camber depends on the size of the track, banking, how fast you are going, and how much grip/speed you want in the straightaways.

Running extreme amounts of camber can gain you a little speed on the straights because of the lesser amount of tire/friction thats in contact with the track, but be careful to maintain the traction in the corners by allowing enough of the tire to roll over by cornering forces.


hope this helps...

[pudder]

Thanks for the replies, I just need to get my truck fixed before I can get back on the track. mad:

-mike