I've seen several photos of xB show cars with radical positive camber (tops of the tires tilt in, bottoms tilt out). That's a pretty good trick considering the stock rear suspension. Are these guys torching the trailing arms or something?

It looks kind of silly anyway.

The top of the tire leaning in toward the vehicle is negative camber. Positive is the other way around.

:oops: :D

Ah, here's the source of my mistake:

http://www.ozebiz.com.au/racetech/theory/align.html

The captions on the camber diagrams are correct but the pictures aren't.


But anyway, why the camber on xB/bB show cars? Is it just to look like radical racers? Is it to fit the tops of the wheels into the fenders?

But anyway, why the camber on xB/bB show cars? Is it just to look like radical racers? Is it to fit the tops of the wheels into the fenders?
I think it's a little of both. As far as how they getthem like that, they have spacer/shims like the One Ton Garage ones only they are angled.
http://onetongarage.com/products/rear_spacer_shim/index.html

For a radical show car, modifying the rear beam isn't all that much!

Totally useless for the street, though, unless you like wearing out tires really fast!

George

Don't 'bagged cars get monsterous negative camber at the lowest setting? I just thought the Japanese liked the air suspension on 'em. :? Personally, I'm not a fan of the 'gobs-of-negative-camber' look.

Don't 'bagged cars get monsterous negative camber at the lowest setting? I just thought the Japanese liked the air suspension on 'em. :? Personally, I'm not a fan of the 'gobs-of-negative-camber' look.

Same here, it kinda of makes it look like "gobs-of-what-the-hell-did-you-do-to-your-car??" but to each his own.