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Originally Posted by Ryephile
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?
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?
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Yes - goal is to get my license.
Tires are not currently wearing even - wearing on the outsides. hot pressures are in the 35 psi range. I've been airing down to 29 and that's working well.
I've taken my car to several local tuners (I live near sears point raceway - so I have lots of good local resources) and they recomended camber plates as a first option - as they're easier to work with.
the guy at sears point (american v8 supercars - check them out) showed me slotted lower mounts that he had made for another car. He could make some for mine - but that would make it hard to me to DIY in the future.