Yeah NA S13's go alright. Stock one would take on the old Commy, smash it around a track no worries. Car looks decent and camber does help with cornering, just because 50% isn't touching the road doesn't mean it's less traction
im about to make a post that makes me hate myself. thats one of those "ive been working on cars for blah blah blah" posts that make the poster sound like a douche, but because you dont seem to listen im going to do it. i started importing cars with my brother in 1996. i was on my P's so i drove like an absolute DEMON. had no regard for road laws whatsoever. was very excited about all the cool JDM spec cars i hand my hands on WAY before they became cool in the aus market. went to japan and checked out the drift scene in 1999, i took them on track, but mostly was hammering around normal streets. ok, so i have since learned my lesson with dangerous driving (so please no neg rep), but those expierence still stand. im really happy that you have an S14. and im happy that you have it set up the way you like it. if you had any kind of clue how many drift pig S13 and S15's (i cant import S14's cos they were brought in by nissan) ive had my filthy hands on you wouldnt question my opinion. i can tell you beyond any reasonable doubt that that rear camber angle is too much for day to day driving. the rear tyres dont need anywhere NEAR as much camber angle as the front because they dont need to bite into corners like the front do. all you are doing is reducing the contact patch to a point they will have little to no contact with the road. this car will be slippy in the tail around reasonable bends, will be a dangerous handful on reverse camber corners and on dead straight roads will track from the rear so badly itll be undrivable. 6 degrees on the front is totally do-able. in fact its bags of fun. on a striahgt road youll need bags of correction, but tuck that bitch into a corner and the inner wheel will flatten out and just GRAB like no bodies business and throw the car wherever you point it. i can see the benefits in the front. in the rear itll just be like driving a 700HP RWD on the snow. massive bag of ****. but hey! as you say if OP like it, then its his bag of ****. good luck. those tyres will wear out in an a few months, then he will reset it back to 2 degrees. wont look as "cool" but will track a damn sight better, anyway this thread is BS. OP isnt even talking, just a kid thats read a few webpages and watched some youtube vids, thats now an expert.
It's not that I'm not listening, and I never claimed to be some kind of expert, I just put forward my opinion based on the results of my own experimenting, which nobody else did to make their point. I'm happy to be proved wrong on whatever I say, but a lot of the arguments that people were leveling at this car weren't constructive or useful, and when I asked for people to give their reasoning, they didn't. Wish I was still a kid though. Heaps of fun over there. I've driven at 2 Ebisu Drift Maturi's in a hacked to bits 33. Looking to go back next year, tons of fun. Yes!!! That's what I wanted from the beginning. People with first hand experience. I don't think I questioned your opinion though, I think I just said the photo looked weird or something. My SR20 is too much for daily driving, so is a 6.0 V8, but people still do it. Regardless, your reasoning in that post was pretty much the kind of discussion I was trying to initiate (which kinda failed miserably), and so far has been the most logical. We'll have to meet half way, 6 at the front and none at the back. I don't think I've ever seen a car on this forum divide people like this one has. I wonder if OP will come back...
no need to talk cause everyone seems to entertain each other bagging the car etc, i honestly dont mind, whatever makes you guys feel better at night..im the one driving the car anyway new pedals arrived in the post today. Untitled by Dijm8, on Flickr
as with the exhaust thats soon to come, im either thinking twin tips on both sides (will have to cut out the black plastic) or go for a twin centre where the cap is located in the black part 946616_10100281307350243_1039792685_n by Dijm8, on Flickr
Physics man, obviously not half the tyre but camber would affect the angle of wheel > road and then things such as 'centripetal' force (Well not that it is an actual force) come into it and the car will end up sticking to the road better
Still looks weird to me. Stretched tyres for no reason. Unless your planning on going much lower or something.
