Project 2.Slow Mazda3

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More camber in the rear will hurt you, it is going to oversteer more especially under braking. If you want a more stable rear end, add a touch more toe in the rear.

How so? I've always read less rear camber = more oversteer in FWD applications. Where more camber = less oversteer in FWD in the rear.

You may be thinking of RWD?

I'm probably wrong though.

Absolutes are a bad way to look at it.

Look at your balance front and rear of camber and toe. Increasing camber helps to a limit. At 3.2 degrees of rear, I bet you went over the limit by a fair amount.

I bet you are looking at people trying to make a FWD car "oversteer", "loose is fast". They set the cars up with almost no rear camber to get it to oversteer, they also put 1000lb spring rates in the rear and pump up rear tire pressures.

-3 bad...-2 okay..-1.5 probably ideal looking at your alignment, and using generalizations,-.5 or 0 bad again. There is a sweet spot.

Remember to visualize that all "negative camber" is doing is correcting when a suspension deflects and making the tire "flat to the ground" when it is being used for it's purpose. If the car "loses" +1 camber in cornering, -1 would be perfect, and -3 would be overkill, and 0 would be not enough. Both extremes meaning less traction.