The Official 370Z Autocross Thread

[IMWEZL]

Originally Posted by ChrisSlicks

For this event I ran camber control arms and dialed in -2.6 degrees in front and -1.6 in the rear, as well as the Hotchkis sway bars. The car was very responsive and handling was excellent!

I haven't searched yet but I have been wondering how much the car would benefit with more negative camber. Is that the max you could get out of it? Just wondering what made you choose that particular setting.

[AutoX Z]

Originally Posted by IMWEZL

I haven't searched yet but I have been wondering how much the car would benefit with more negative camber. Is that the max you could get out of it? Just wondering what made you choose that particular setting.

The car would benefit greatly from some more negative camber in the front. Unfortunately because of the way the suspension is designed, front camber is non-adjustable. The only way to change it is to get some adjustable arms like chris has

[JSBZ]

Originally Posted by AutoX Z

The car would benefit greatly from some more negative camber in the front. Unfortunately because of the way the suspension is designed, front camber is non-adjustable. The only way to change it is to get some adjustable arms like chris has

How difficult is it to dial in an adjustable suspension? Any special alignment equipment needed?

[ChrisSlicks]

Originally Posted by JSBZ

How difficult is it to dial in an adjustable suspension? Any special alignment equipment needed?

We used a calibrated alignment rack (Hunter), but they do sell home alignment kits now. There's also a string method that is reasonably accurate just fiddly and time consuming.

[ChrisSlicks]

Originally Posted by IMWEZL

I haven't searched yet but I have been wondering how much the car would benefit with more negative camber. Is that the max you could get out of it? Just wondering what made you choose that particular setting.

I wanted something aggressive, but still streetable. Normally -1.5 degrees is considered the max for street, but I set the front toe to 0.0 and set some more camber. These camber arms are set up to be almost all negative, as my mechanic said when we were installing them, "There's an oh my god amount more left there". I think I could hit 5 degrees pretty easily. Usually in auto-x the more camber you can get the better but it can start to hurt your straight line braking performance. The turn-in is very nice and hard now so I'm leaving it this way for a while.

[boosted180]

how much toe are you running in the rear?

Originally Posted by ChrisSlicks

I wanted something aggressive, but still streetable. Normally -1.5 degrees is considered the max for street, but I set the front toe to 0.0 and set some more camber. These camber arms are set up to be almost all negative, as my mechanic said when we were installing them, "There's an oh my god amount more left there". I think I could hit 5 degrees pretty easily. Usually in auto-x the more camber you can get the better but it can start to hurt your straight line braking performance. The turn-in is very nice and hard now so I'm leaving it this way for a while.