Tilted wheels (picture)
 

Sorry for my big ignorance, but why do people do this to their cars? I'm talking about how the wheels stick out like that and they seem kinda tilted to the side?


http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/07/31/juradaju.jpg

cause stance/vip/hella flush a toilet is the shitts. get with it.

Because it's hella flush, bro.:ugh2:

it's called negative camber...

Kind of a bit overboard with the whole hella fresh stance flush a toilet watchamacallit :ugh2:

I thought he nailed it....

its for show. Able to throw big ol wheels on there , then slam it.. only way to do that is to invert the wheels (like in the picture) which is called negative camber.

Typically you see this @ shows or photo shoots. On the road, you usually only see this on Hondas. More than likely the higher end "hellaflush" are probably on some type of air suspension to raise the car for street.. or just swap wheels.


edit: for a picture tho, that Z looks pretty mean.

This is why they do it:

Hellaflush cartoon - YouTube

Is it for show only or does it have any other purpose?

There are many valid reasons for this behavior. Chief among them are (note that these are in no particular order of magnitude or severity):

1. Repeated rejection by the opposite sex

2. Repeated beatings delivered to them in high school

3. Peer pressure

4. Their Moms denied them the breast at a sensitive period in their psycho/socio development that later manifested into a "Stance-Fixation"

5. Their Fathers ignored them

5. One extra chromosome

6. Small genitals (real or perceived)

7. Beaten up by a girl once

8. Low IQ

9. Gender identity confusion

10. Etc.

I thought people did this 'cause they didn't know what else to do with Mommy and Daddy's money.


This thread will be epic:stirthepot:

OP. Don't let these guys fool you. There are very legitimate reasons why. As real hardcore racers know, when you are making mad powa with your rwd 370 z and you are taking out pesky lamborghini/ferrari/lotus/Bugatti/Pagani the limiting factor to the 370z is always the excessive forward bite. The mad grip in this car just costs you speed because the rear is just way too planted and sticky. so instead you camber the wheels inward so instead of 10"+ of tire of contact patch you try to get 1/4 " contact patch. This allows your rear wheels to spin much more out of the gate and that's a little known trade secret as you leave them in a trail of smoke. But much as we all know, on top of the excessive forward bite of the 370z rear tires, we understand that the limiting factor of the 370 is it's inability to turn a corner effectively. So by running 9 deg negative camber this ensures the car really grips in excessive cornering. Couple that with the stretched 5" wide tire on a 10.5"x 22 rim and this ensures that as you approach apex of turn you free the car on exit by transferring most of the weight to the lip of your rims. This does an excellent job of freeing up an otherwise tight steering car. Finally before the hardcore racers come in here and delete my thread. The last secret is that we all know that the soft suspension in our cars is just too plush and not oriented towards knocking out vipers. So we take and cut our springs or even more stealth is to remove them to have the minimum amount of travel as possible. I mean let's face it. With 2-3" of suspension travel your car may begin to roll in a corner which is bad. If the suspension cant move the body won't roll. That why I never bother with some overrated afco coilover setup. It's easier and lighter to cut or remove completely the springs and just keep the shocks bottomed out on themselves. Light and fast.

Oops gotta go I've now spilled the beans and published the worlds best kept racing secrets.

I was moments away from firing away at you until I read it carefully. I have one comment:

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I was hoping my level of sarcasm was not missed. Lol

Good job. :tup:

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Lol

I don't care!

I don't care, I will find new friends that understand...:mad:

I don't care ... :mad:

Ok, three times is enough. I might chase away the b!tches.

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Those tires are so sticky that only 3/8ths of them can be in contact with the road otherwise they wouldn't move from the hella grip. That or they just have really bad taste.

Winner Hellaflush!

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OMG I'm crying!!!!!!!!!!!

Little known fact is that the inventor of the hella flush is the grandson of Uncle Ben.

OP, there are reasons cars run negative camber (and race cars normally run more). But the Hellaflush trend is retard. I think I own the only 240sx that isn't hellaflush slammed.

http://www.raceweb.co.za/homefeats/i...nds/negcam.jpg

Also, why do they call it flush? It's not flush if it's all tilted. Flush would be straight down parallel to the car.

Whoever said "hellaflush" was a Honda thing has never seen a 240sx in their life.

If you want to get mad bitches, run positive camber like on an old Morgan (not a mog in the picture)
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/...e-models-1.jpg

Negative camber for a street car is hella gay. I've only ever seen it on POS Civics from the 90s and various other crap that's barely even worth mentioning.

Because, race car.

I'm pretty sure about 95% of cars on the streets have negative camber.

I used to criticize or judge but have learned to let them be. I no longer waste my energy on execution I don't necessarily agree with. They have reasons that others may never understand. Diverse taste = diverse execution amounts to a variety of cars that every enthusiast can appreciate. If you don't like it, press next.

I can certainly see the appeal on hellaflush cars; especially the ones done right. That is, the wheels and tires are actually flushed with the fenders--not poking out with a ridiculous amount of negative camber. Controlled negative camber in the front actually provides more grip during corner exits as the wheels tend to "straighten" during cornering, but I'm pretty sure the hellaflush crowd don't really care about that nonsense :ugh2:.

I'm convinced that state inspection laws will soon be modified to exclude this severe negative camber, as well as tire stretching, citing it as unsafe. Just my opinion.

Stretching a tire to fit a wheel is dumb. Its dangerous to everyone on the road as well as themselves. Not to mention running all that negative camber kills tires, but I know this is the part that some to them like to brag about. Bragging about killing new tires with massive camber is like being the smartest kid with down syndrome.

I associate these kids with the people that sag their pants. Both display that you're homo looking to get @ss-fvcked.

I am unsure about the accuracy of your observations. I have many gay friends, both men and women. and every one of their vehicles' camber appears in spec.

Here's a tip. Anyone who seriously employs the phrase "hella gay" or even "hella" (unless referring to the company that makes lights, horns, etc.) instantly reveals that person's level of intelligence.

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totally agree. why anyone would do this to a sports car is beyond me. but hey, they want their car to ride like crap, scrape over the smallest of bumps, only drive on flat surfaces, etc it's on them. gives me something to laugh at. especially that park bench stuck on the back