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Old 2009-07-22, 10:04 AM   #11
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EDIT: Damn Cody...

You got it...

Abusing tires on corners wears the outside. Inside wear is too much camber and/or bad toe.

Camber bolts are cheap and a necessity for lowered Imprezas. Pick up a set out at summit for under $20 as I recall.

I disagree on camber. Unless you are autocrossing or tracking, for a street car, in general, you want a total of less than -1.5 degrees of camber when you add the front and rear to allow you to rotate and even out wear.

Stock is probably close to zero to a couple tenths negative front and -1+ rear. While this is less than optimal from a performance perspective, it allows for more even wear as the fronts wear the outside and the rears the.

To optimize performance and keep wear reasonable, you would like to have about -1 front and -.5 rear especially with the lowered front which messes up geometry under cornering even more.

I agree on toe. Zero all around unless you are tracking it and know why you are doing it.
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