Yeah, the camber does change, just as on real cars. Interestingly enough, as
the suspension designs get more advanced, the amount it changes becomes yet
another setting we can tune on those little cars. When I think of all the
different things I play with as I try to get the car to hook up on a new
track, I know I'll never have that kind of adjustment with the Spit. I'd like
to see someone at an AutoX say, I need a little more on power cornering, let's
play with the bottom rear shock mountings...
Andy L.
Trevor Boicey wrote:
> Dr. Faustus wrote:
> >
> > I was looking at my Spitfire today as I was loading my R/C racing
> > equipment in it, and realized something. The front wheels have positive
> > camber (Tops of the wheels are farther out than the bottoms). I know
> > from my experience with the little cars that this makes for very
> > inefficient cornering. This is because as the car corners, the weight
> > is pushed to the outside wheel. The car also leans toward the outside.
> > If the wheel have positive camber, you get even less of your tire on the
> > road than if you had none. Does anybody know if these principles hold
> > true on full size cars (I can't imagine why not).
>
> Do the wheels on your R/C cars change camber as the suspension
> travels?
>
> One thing about "full size cars" is that as the car corners, the
> suspension
> on the outside gives, which causes the wheel to go up into the wheel
> well
> and the camber changes.
>
> I know R/C cars can be pretty complex, perhaps they do as well.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
> tboicey@brit.ca, http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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