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Old 07-19-2010, 08:48 PM   #6 (permalink)
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This tire has been debated endlessly on another forum I visit and the consensus is that this tire makes no sense and will not work as advertised. The point of camber is to compensate for when the car rolls and the suspension compresses. With a normal tire and proper camber, it will be flat on the ground at maximum cornering loads. This means a compromise of the tire being slightly angled when the suspension is in the static position. If the tire is already flat before the car rolls, when it does it will roll the tire onto the outside contact patch and shrink the contact patch.

This tire has so far been tested by a few people and failed to show any benefit over a standard tire, and is usually slower.

Here's a test automobile magazine did where the camber tire couldn't match the cornering g's from a piece of crap yokohama summer tire, no where near the "top" 140 street tires.

http://www.automobilemag.com/feature...read_wear.html
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