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Originally Posted by irmb
...I bought my camaro specifically to learn how to race cars.
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I'm taking my car to places like laguna seca as often as I can. My car has 6,000 miles and the stock tires are toast.
Would like to do a mild tune to keep it daily driverable - or alternately -easily reversable. This is why I'm looking for camber plates.
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Do you mean to say you're progressing your way to an SCCA or NASA racing license, or you're enjoying track days/HPDE's? It is an important distinction.
6k miles on a regularly tracked set of tires is actually very good. Something like a Hoosier R7 will only last roughly 500 miles (about 6 days), depending on the particular car and driving style.
More importantly, are your tires wearing evenly? That is going to be the main indication whether your alignment warrants different camber. Also just for the record, what are you hot tire pressures?
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Originally Posted by JaxChris
...Having around 7.5 degrees of front caster put the wheel hubs ahead of the strut tower. If you camber that out you are also toe-ing out the front wheels as well.....
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7.5° front caster is quite a lot. That will give significant dynamic camber. Whether that's enough for high-speed corners versus low-speed corners will come down to tire wear and temperature variation across the tread.
Given the struts use the flange mount style strut, wouldn't eccentric bolts and/or slotted lower mount holes offer adequate camber adjustment?