Rims angled in relation to ground., Whats the deal??? Options

[TunerHawk]

This might sound like a juvenile question, but I have seen rims on cars that seemed to be "angled" on the car. Intead of the tire being perpendicular (90 degrees) in relation to the road, the tire is on a slant of like 85 degrees. Does anyone know what I am talking about? I have noticed this trend on alot of Nissans, like the skylines and 240's. If anyone could enlighten me on this subject I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

-Brandon-

This post has been edited by TunerHawk: Aug 8, 2003 - 2:44 AM

[SpedToe169]

Camber alone doesn't wear tires very fast. I've been running 2deg of neg camber for 2 years on the street and its no big deal. Toe settings become more critical when running a lot of negative camber tho. A little toe out with some negative camber will wear tires REALLY fast. The best street alignment setup I've found for the 6th gen is about 2deg or 2.25deg of neg camber in the front, 1.5 in the back and 0 toe all around. Theres not enough adjustment in the celica to put 'too much' camber in and make the car handle worse. We've run over 5 deg neg at times on our World-Challenge cars.