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Originally Posted by AriuSen
care to explain why? lol
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Man that post was made so long ago I almost forgot why I said it.
A lot of negative camber up front, or at least, going from where stock-ish camber is to a ton of negative camber up front, takes some getting used to. The reason is under static load, the camber actually changes the shape of the contact patch and leads to REQUIRING the front end to load up some weight before the brakes will have full traction of the tires to work with.
So if you're used to getting on the brakes very quick with minimal camber, the result is when you brake hard, the front end compresses and you get additional camber to work with on turn-in. With ADDED camber, if you brake hard and fast, you will cause the front end to lose grip initially since the shape of the contact patch is no longer ideal for braking. You will need to re-learn your braking to allow the weight to transfer to occur at the right time. Cars with a ton of negative camber will require the braking to be done LATER and trailed into the turn, so that you're sort of braking and turning at the same time to maximize the contact patch. But you can't brake as hard, and you won't need to brake as hard, since the added camber will allow you to corner at a higher speed.
The end result, is if you brake TOO hard with a ton of camber going into a turn, you may experience understeer when the front brakes overwhelm the front tires on corner entry.
The truth about going fast is all about managing your contact patch, and learning to brake ONLY ENOUGH to manage those contact patches.