I keep seeing this lately

[gvfc2]

I keep seeing ricers mainly with the rear wheel like /\ but the front are like l l.

so the rear wheels have a negative camber. whats the point of this on street cars?

 

[BigThieme]

Maybe for better aerodynamics

 

[gvfc2]

doubt it. but i did read it helps with cornering.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Nothing to do with aerodynamics. Frankly, it's not gonna help cornering for squat on the streets either. In fact, unless it's designed by a suspension engineer with specific circumstances in mind, it's simply dumb. What you can expect is ridiculous tire wear and fairly frequent bearing service.

It's kinda like all those loogans with the big stupid wings... You expect that to do WHAT on a front-wheel-drive car at 70MPH or less? LOL-idiots.

I kinda like the morons that take one windshield wiper off, and re-clock the other wiper arm to sorta cover the whole windshield. Way to go, genius! Not only have you decreased the available coverage, you've also effectively cut the cleaning speed in half.

Ooh- and the (typically same) maroons that lower the car buy merely cutting a few coils out of the struts with NO regard for the frontend geometry. Wow...

Whoops- I think there was a rant coming... Ummm, where were we?

 

[gvfc2]

hey rant away.

yea i just know it looks stupid. when i first started to see them i thought hey there axles are bent. but nope. i think its just an affect of improper lowering of the car

 

[machinist@large]

hey rant away.

yea i just know it looks stupid. when i first started to see them i thought hey there axles are bent. but nope. i think its just an affect of improper lowering of the car

You wish. It appears to be some freakish fad called "EXTREME CAMBER!!!!" coming out of the far east, I believe Japan or South Korea. Think the final seconds of "Back to the Future" #1 where the Doc, Marty & his girlfriend have lifted off, and are charging the camera with the wheels folding up.

The only reason I delved that far into it was because YouTube keeps thinking that if you are interested in WW2, then you are a perfect match for vehicles that wouldn't pass a basic safety walk around by any law enforcement officer in the State of Michigan.......(Apparently, even though we're still clinging for life by our fingernails, the Automotive Capital of the World hasn't forgotten about safety.....)

 

[gvfc2]

wow really now? that's just retarded. If all it does is cost extra money why do it at all?

 

[machinist@large]

wow really now? that's just retarded. If all it does is cost extra money why do it at all?

You just asked the $5.00 question.... If you look it up on YT, you'll see things that make driving a certain blue oval maxi SUV as a economy commuter vehicle look reasonable.....

I'd take Bigfoot #5 as more realistic over some of the "vehicles" that YT offers in that end of the WTF pool.....

Look it up; the undercarriage mod's are nothing compared to the topside freakishness.

 

[readymix]

It is called stance. And it is a disease. I have been a part of the local car enthusiast community for a decade and these idiot fads come and go. Stance is the evolution of hella flush. Before that it was murdered out. Flat black everything. It is just "look at me" fads. Stance will die off and something else will take over.

 

[J_Walker]

hahaha, I had a friend who did this, and the rear tire fell off while on the highway, two reasons. - his "Friend" put the whole wheel on backwards.. and didn't torque down the bolts.. Never to say.. I laughed so hard, when he told me..

Then again, he laughed at me for crashing in a strait line, going 30mph... on a motorcycle.

 

[gvfc2]

Then again, he laughed at me for crashing in a strait line, going 30mph... on a motorcycle.

Umm... how?

 

[gvfc2]

machinist@large what should i look for on yt?

 

[Doc Sprocket]

It is called stance. And it is a disease.

Is there a drug for this, or is it caused by drug use? How can you possibly look at that and say "Yeah- that'll give me the performance edge while I'm tearing around irresponsibly threatening lives?"

Stance is the evolution of hella flush.

Hella Flush? Is that when you put your offroad lights in the toilet?

Before that it was murdered out.

Oh, they've murdered these cars, all right...

 

[DaiSan76]

I think it looks stupid. Even more stupid than lowriders.

 

[masteryota]

Ok, ready for this answer. Its called being a cheap a$$, the kids like the lowered look, and don't want to spend the $$ for the modified lower control arms that bring the spindles back into proper adjustment ranges.

After seeing countless Scions and corollas come in for alignments cause they happen to be chewing tire off, they normally go back and give the speed shop that lowered it some grief for not telling them about the repercussions.

As for the pic above, I have no idea...

 

[gvfc2]

the pic above i think was just broken control arm and no suspension.

as for the answer to my question thats what i said masteryota. improper lowering.

although most of the time its not a shop that lowers them. its the people them selves that lower it and dont know what they are doing

 

[fowler]

Take a 5 inch grinder to the spring and cut it at arms length

Just make sure the spring is still in the car while u cut it

Gotta be the stupidest thing u can do to a car
Well I don't really know why anyone would wanna lower a car
Unless u are serious about track racking

Also really hate these stupid exhausts, neons, spoilers, removing seats, home tinting windows, tinting brake lights, fitting big rims, quick release and/or fake wood/ leather steering wheel, stereo worth 3 x the car

This list could get quite long

Of course 1/2 the apprentices at the mechanics tech collage have done just this to there **** boxes
And to combat hooning the collage installed a **** load of speed bumps on the entrance that happens to be up hill

So if they start cutting me off and speeding around me on the road I stick up their assemble they go up the hill
To avoid rolling back into my bullbat they gotta keep moving forward at idle over the bumps
Scraping and crunching al the way

Needless to say I get a wide berth now

 

[J_Walker]

Umm... how?

something was funky with the piston in one of my front right brake.. and of course it was dragging on the rotor. I guess I just got lucky and when I went to speed up a bit from like 25 to 30mph. Was just enough speed, and enough grab to jerk my handlebars to the left - completely. and kick me off.. Still don't know really what happened for sure. but that's my theory.. and I'm sticking to it! [pun intended]

 

[J_Walker]

Take a 5 inch grinder to the spring and cut it at arms length

Just make sure the spring is still in the car while u cut it

Gotta be the stupidest thing u can do to a car
Well I don't really know why anyone would wanna lower a car
Unless u are serious about track racking

Also really hate these stupid exhausts, neons, spoilers, removing seats, home tinting windows, tinting brake lights, fitting big rims, quick release and/or fake wood/ leather steering wheel, stereo worth 3 x the car

This list could get quite long

Of course 1/2 the apprentices at the mechanics tech collage have done just this to there **** boxes
And to combat hooning the collage installed a **** load of speed bumps on the entrance that happens to be up hill

So if they start cutting me off and speeding around me on the road I stick up their assemble they go up the hill
To avoid rolling back into my bullbat they gotta keep moving forward at idle over the bumps
Scraping and crunching al the way

Needless to say I get a wide berth now

Lol, I'm really into rally racing. I don't do it myself of course - to much **** money I don't got! but I enjoy watching it.. sometimes I wish the ricers would go ahead and take inspiration from rally cars.. at least they'd stop chopping the suspension. and putting 69 inch rims on their honda civics.

There's this kid that lives around me.. who owns a "drift car" I gotta get a video of this beater mobile for you guys, and get him to honestly repeat him saying "its a drift car"

I don't remember what type of car it was, but I remember its along the lines of 170ish HP and around 3,000lbs

"drift car" Right...

 

[masteryota]

Well, I lowered my Tundra, but I did it the correct way, and retained all the factory suspension, and my alignment is dead nuts on factory spec, but I spent the money for the proper kit after months of research.