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n.turner

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About to get some new tyres and have the geometry done at the same time on my Boxster S. Wondered if anyone had any feed back on track day suspension settings as opposed to standard. Does this have any significant effect on tyre wear and are there any advantages to sticking to standard settings (very little track use in proportion to spirited road driving). Thanks for your help!

Nick
 
I find that my front tyres wear on the inner portion due to the negative camber but I still get roughly the 2/1 ratio of front to rear replacement that I've always done. The rears haven't worn any quicker than the fairly rapid rate than they did before.

On a standard car (no 030) you can not get as much camber so based on my findings you should'nt see any noticeable, uneven increase in wear.

I can see no advantage to having the standard setup other than saving the cost of the alignment procedure. With the modified settings the car is much more communicative, responsive and most importantly predictable.

JCB..
 
Adding to John's comments.

The alignment should be done every now and again irrespective of whether you are changing to track settings or keeping to standard "road" setup. Tyre wear and handling can be affected by the setup going out of alignment in either case.
 
I have copied this from a previous post:

Front

Standard tolerances
Toe +5' +/- 5'
Camber -10' +/- 30'

Track day settings (sport)
Toe 0" 00'
Camber Maximum negative achievable


Rear
Standard tolerances
Toe +5' +/- 5'
Camber -1" 20' +/- 30'

Track day settings (sport)
Toe ""0" 05'
Camber Maximum negative achievable (max ""2")

 
Thanks.

Does the increased camber reduce the front tyre contact patch area and compromise braking at all?

Andrew

 
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