[SD-1LE]

Sorry in advance, I'm sure this has been covered already, but I search isn't turning anything up for me.

Does anyone have experience running the track alignment (GM track camber or more) long term on the street? How much more quickly does it really wear the tires? Conversely, does the track alignment significantly reduce wear at the track or does it mainly improve performance?

I'm thinking maybe I should switch to the track alignment before my next track day, but I'd like to avoid the cost + hassle of switching back and forth before/after each event. Maybe leave it on the track settings unless I know I'm going to be going on a weekend trip?

I 'daily' the car, but primarily working from home. I've only put about 3k miles on it since picking it up ~8 months ago. So I'm not racking up tons of miles. I do drive it on occasional longer trips as well as to/from the track (say, 500 miles round trip). I'm still a major novice on track, so ran the street alignment setting my only two track days so far.

[eimarshall]

The track alignment from Chevy isnt terribly aggressive. I DD’d with it for 2 years and saw minimal wear issues. If you track as well, even as a novice, you’ll probably get more even wear with the track alignment than without.

[VR Baron]

I can’t yet speak to this car or the tires. I run -2.6 camber for autocross but will also keep it for street. But with years of experience in a track prepped fifth gen, -2.2 camber only helped make the wear more even on the street with 295/30 and 285/35 series tires . Though the inside still wore less.At -2.5 the wear was more even. Hope that helps.

[That1guy_tim]

Camber doesn't accelerate tire wear as much as people think. Toe is what kills tires quickly. over the life of the tire running high camber you'll see uneven wear but as long as your toe setting isn't crazy aggressive you should still see good life out of your tires

[Alpha1BC]

I'd still recommend getting the track alignment. I had it on mine pretty much since day 1, got 12,500 miles and ~20 track days out of them before seeing cords on the inside edge. Overall wear was still pretty even, and IMO the extra couple hundred miles I might have gotten by switching alignments back and fourth wasn't worth it.

As others have mentioned, just make sure the toe is dead-on the spec and you should be fine. Toe+camber will kill tires because toe introduces a lateral scrub component to the tire and combining that with more negative camber will eat the inside edge of the tire very quickly on the street.

[pbsinternet1le]

Go for max front around -2.5 and -1.5 rear.. tire wear is not an issue.

[VR Baron]

Originally Posted by That1guy_tim

Camber doesn't accelerate tire wear as much as people think. Toe is what kills tires quickly. over the life of the tire running high camber you'll see uneven wear but as long as your toe setting isn't crazy aggressive you should still see good life out of your tires

Yep. And 0 toe or as Chevy performance manual says is what I always used to good effect.

[JK001]

Originally Posted by VR Baron

Yep. And 0 toe or as Chevy performance manual says is what I always used to good effect.

Yes, toe is key. You can run slightly total toe out (pos) in front if tracking alot. Crank the camber to max. Vorschlag sell great quality camber plates for extra neg camber

[funked1]

It has actually made my tread wear more even. And the improvement in turn in was immediately noticeable on an autocross course.

[Kmeleon]

Originally Posted by funked1

It has actually made my tread wear more even. And the improvement in turn in was immediately noticeable on an autocross course.

+1 get the track alignment, tire wear is much better.

[Scargoes]

Originally Posted by JK001

Yes, toe is key. You can run slightly total toe out (pos) in front if tracking alot. Crank the camber to max. Vorschlag sell great quality camber plates for extra neg camber

Positive (+) toe would be toe in. Toe out would be Negative (-)


But to answer the main question, it really depends on what you do with the car. I'm at -3F and -2R and my outside edges still wear quicker that the inside edges. No, it isn't a toe issue, I'm at -0.04F and 0.1R. I just corner really hard.

[KILLA BEE]

Originally Posted by eimarshall

The track alignment from Chevy isnt terribly aggressive. I DD’d with it for 2 years and saw minimal wear issues. If you track as well, even as a novice, you’ll probably get more even wear with the track alignment than without.

So the dealer actually did your trak alignment or you took the specs elsewhere and had it done

[machinis]

I daily drive mine with downgraded NT555G2, and 60K miles. My car came with track alignment from the dealer. I couldn't notice it with the original tires because they barely lasted 10K miles, however when I downgraded to the NT555G2's, the front tires showed "cupping" issues after 20K miles. Needless to say, I had to realign the car and replace the front tires.

[SD-1LE]

Originally Posted by Alpha1BC

I'd still recommend getting the track alignment. I had it on mine pretty much since day 1, got 12,500 miles and ~20 track days out of them before seeing cords on the inside edge. Overall wear was still pretty even, and IMO the extra couple hundred miles I might have gotten by switching alignments back and fourth wasn't worth it.

As others have mentioned, just make sure the toe is dead-on the spec and you should be fine. Toe+camber will kill tires because toe introduces a lateral scrub component to the tire and combining that with more negative camber will eat the inside edge of the tire very quickly on the street.

Thanks! 12k miles and 20 track days on the OEM Goodyears? That is an easy sell for the track alignment. Getting that switched back as soon as I'm registered for my next track day.