Unfortunately, the problem is the combination of the two settings. If you
had zero toe and that much negative camber, the wear would be minimal. If
you had that much toe out and 0 degrees negative camber, you wouldn't
*notice* that much because you would be creating friction and wear across
the entire tread.
BOTH of these combined create lots of friction on the inside edge while
driving straight down the road. To minimize your wear, I would learn how
to adjust your toe at the events.
AB
A lot of the respondants to my inside edge tire wear question seem to
think that the large amount of negative camber that I have dialed in
(about 1.8 degrees) is probably the main reason for the inside edges
wearing faster than the outside edges. Actually for Neons this is not a
lot of negative camber but compared to other camber-challenged cars I
guess that it can be considered a lot.
So........how can I equalize the wear? Drive harder and wear the outer
edge out faster? Less tire pressure to give the outside edge more
"bite"? Turn the tires around on the wheel and wear the "other" inside
edge? What?
And Mike, I don't need a pyrometer, I have two hands that can feel the
heat on the tires just fine. From everything that I've read we
autocrossers are never gonna have perfectly equal temps across the tread
surface since we basically toss the car every possible direction. But I
can tell when one edge is noticably warmer than the other and adjust the
tire pressure to sorta equalize them.
Thanks in advance.
See you on course.
Eric Linnhoff in KC
#69DS TLS #13
'98 Neon R/T
<eric10mm@qni.com>
You jump in front of my car When you know all the time
That 90 miles an hour Girl Is the speed I drive
You tell me it's all right You don't mind a little pain
You say you just want me to take you for a drive
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"Crosstown Traffic" as recorded by Jimi Hendrix
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