LAST EDITED ON 31-Jan-01 AT 10:05 PM (PST)

That was a mouthful but how about this (simple). Throw a car hard into a corner and the outside tires roll on their outer sidewalls and inner tires inner sidewall. Contact patch is reduced. Wishbone suspenion increases neg camber as its compressed increasing the contact patch (keeping the tires more flat against the road surface). Also the reason lowering double wishbone cars causes so much neg camber (I lowered my 90 eclipse 2" with cut springs never wore out a tire unevenly). Mcpherson struts not nearly as capable of adding neg camber as its compressed and hence leaving less contact patch to the road. This can be corrected by just running them with lots of static neg camber (like many autocrossers with -3 and such) but then your run into other problems (that aren't a concern when racing but detrimental to daily usage). This is important to front and reas suspension but especially to rear suspension on FWD cars since the goal is to get the rear wheels to do more work then holding up the rear.

PS. I didn't want to hurt the guys feelings talking about how his 3G susupension had interchangeable parts with the 1G. That statement in itself should have ??? something in his head. 1Gs have archaic rear suspension and typical mcpherson struts up front, neither a point I'd bring up in a "whos better" argument.


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