[Ross Nicol]

Hi Guys
Rick I reckon your doing the right thing by increasing negative camber. I have taken tyre temps for a while, but you don't even need to bother when you look at how the tyres are wearing/scrubbing across the tread. If your scrubbing the outside edge the loaded tyres in the corners are not flat on the track and hence not giving you maximum grip. I have just increased neg camber on all 4 corners of my car to get even wear across the tread. That has been the single most improvement in the car's handling in 3 years. I'm at 2.5 degrees now and I can still see I probably could put on another 1/2 a degree. Incidentally I've got Sumitomo road tyres on a set of wheels and I did a 1min 25sec lap at Sandown but I reckon I could lower that time on those tyres now with the new new set up. I've been having trouble with the long sweepers at Phillip Island so I know the car will be much improved there now. If you get the negative camber right and chuck on a grippier set of tyres you will be very surprised. I'm sure the understeer will disappear and your confidence will skyrocket as has mine. To get more neg camber on the front I cut back the top wishbone arms (inner). I lengthened the lower wishbone at the rear but you have to be careful how far you go as the lower trailing arm is nearly fouling the chassis.
Clayton when I first read of the changes you made my first reaction was that's a lot to do without driving the car. I realize you are moving things for feet clearance but I like to change things one at a time and prove the change was worthwhile by driving the car. I believe the others have a similar opinion to me ( i've never noticed any front bump steer) however that's not to say it's not there and that some drivers may be more sensitive to it than others. Hope this is helpful.
Ross