Someone explain silly looking camber to me
 

Ok I get that you need to adjust camber on dropped cars to make the wheels flush again but then there's this:

http://i.imgur.com/IRuVj.jpg

Serious question: Why do people do this? Does it actually serve some sort of purpose outside of ripping your tires to pieces very quickly?

More importantly, are they aware how silly it looks? Seriously, it looks like a matchbox car that some fat kid sat on.

hellaflush yo!

Not something you can explain logically.....like spinners, monsterous car audio systems or why God invented herpes.

I call it the Back to the Future look.

Now where the hell is Marty!!!

HONESTLY, I have NO god damn idea, I know it is part of a STUPID thing called hellaflush, and these morons, (yes, even if you have a 370Z and you do this, you're a moron) do this to be part of a "crew" or something...... The goal is to see how much camber you can put in your ride...

If you want to see something funny as well, google "hellaflush" images. Pretty humorous.

This is even sillier... http://hellaflush.com/wp-content/upl...fest222-01.jpg

^^^ I agree, I have seen a lot of these pictures...

I also don't understand the concept of "YEAHHH, I got 13" wide wheels on this bitch!", yet my tire width is 265 stretched with 7 degrees camber

The damn tail lights Cristobal09 posted don't match!!!

We call that a "special snowflake" car.

It's all for looks. I don't know what is wrong with these peoples minds to make them think that looks good.

Also doesn't "flush" imply that the wheels should be perpendicular/aligned with the body and not BENT AT A CRAZY 45 DEGREE ANGLE

I didn't even notice that :bowrofl: :bowrofl: :bowrofl:

Yeah that whole "poke" thing was, and perhaps still is, a big thing in the VW scene. Or even better, putting on 265 tires in the back, and 225's in the front, on a FWD car.

The High Maintenance guys all do this (or a lot of them do) and you would have to beat me to death with a socket wrench before I let you do that to my car.

That's what differentiates flush from hellaflush :p

Or staggered wheels/tires on an awd car.

I think the term probably arose from someone not understanding what the word "flush" means so in a way, that answers my question.

(these people are retards)

Sorry, "retards" isn't nice. If you want to drive around on your wacky clown-car 45 degree angled wheels, more power to you.

:bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl: LMAO!!!
I agree, LOL

I like it, that Q45 is a BOMB, i bet it can swim :tup::p

You are insane.

I'm kinda disappointed. I was really hoping there was a functional use for those wacky clowncamber wheels so I could go "oh ok, it looks retarded but it's great for autocross" or something.

Oh well.

Those cambers actually act like propellers to the wheels so he can hoovers through the swamp :stirthepot:

Well, we all know that a BIT of camber 1-3 degrees helps handling, maybe 30 degrees means this boat of a car can uturn on a damn dime, LOL!!!

I mean, the contact patch is about as narrow as a bicycle's tire

The first pic isn’t hella flush. It’s sitting on stupid stance. So does that corolla it went from mild to extreme. Read or take a look here About | Stance:Nation - Form > Function.

Lol. I took a trip to atco for the nissan event this year with a few friends... one of the g35's i was with is into this stupid camber.. on the way home he blew a tire.. cracked the rim in. 3 points. (For the second time.) He blows through tires everyother week and its destroyed the car. This hellaflush crap is an on going joke imo.

Mmmmmmm "hellaflush" and "stance'd". Its like being back on the VW forums with the hella slammed GTI's.

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Of getting new tires every 3000 miles, and we bitch can moan about how expensive tires are but we love riding low on our STUPID cars, and we can't afford a better car because we spend all our money on tires... Hell, we can't even afford matching tail lights, LOL


With that, IBTL, lol

At least they aren't running europlates... or in our case jdm plates.

I mean as silly as all of this is, I really genuinely wanted to know the answer so I don't think the thread needs to be locked.

so yeah it's just for laughs I guess... but if you can actually find a use for it you'll get the respect of all the other guys who have done this for no reason at all.

mad respect yo.

Edit: this thread is making me laugh a lot. I had to close my office door.

Q: How many fat guys do you need to sit on the roof of your car to make the wheels look like that?

A: "A lot"

I actually like the look of Europlates on some cars. They look good on M3's.

I wonder if people in Europe run US plates so they can be 'mad tYt3 USDM y0".

Nah US plates are ugly. Europeans are too elitist for that.

I can't imagine it being for anything but looks and detrimental to tires and suspension parts (not to mention handling), but am also interested to find out if there is some advantage that I'm not seeing. Not that I would do it to any of my vehicles, but, if it has some desirable effect on ride/handling/&c, I'd like to find out. Inquiring minds want to know!

I can't answer your question but I know my 5 year old boy's Power Wheel rides and handles better than that :p

Absolutely none! It makes ride and handling much much worse.