In nascar, what effect does the camber and caster have on your car and what do they mean?

Question

In nascar, what effect does the camber and caster have on your car and what do they mean?

Answer 1

I love explaining camber, caster and toe.  But I like to use my hand as a reference.  These guys pretty much have it.   It ultimately affects the footprint of the tire and prevents roll over and other negative forces on a tire.

^^^ Those guys got it but I love the subject.   Good question for those that don't know.

Answer 2

Camber and caster have to do with the angle of the front wheels. The effect is better cornering in the turns. But if you go too far then your tires are not on the track very much on the straightaways and you get very bad tirewear. Hence blown tires and into the wall you go. Hope this helped.

Answer 3

deejays link is a very good one but to simplify the answer think of caster as the front caster on a shopping cart and also the front wheel of motorcycle if you go forward w/ it like a motorcycle its very stable but hard to turn but if you go back to far like front wheel on a shopping cart its easy to turn but more unstable that's why you get one that wobbles sometimes, the trick is to find a happy medium. Camber is just the tilt of the front wheels in or out at the top if you put the wheel out at the top it helps in corner handling but too much it wears the tire too quick

Answer 4

Camber and caster affect how well the car turns and tire wear patterns. Caster (Toe) is if the wheels are pointed towards each other or away from each other, like if you looked at your feet while doing Dorothy's "There's no place like home" shoe click. It is to re-establish automatically the parallelism of the two axles of the vehicle when there is no tendency to keep them in any other direction, or after a temporary effort has caused them to diverge from said parallelism. Camber is if the wheels are vertically pointed towards or away from each other, like if your tire was in an arm wrestling match. It is to gain or take away the contact patch of the tire for traction or steering.

Answer 5

Basically it is the pitch of the wheels(tires) in relationship to the road, for a more detailed explanation see

http://www.vrperformance.com/mt/2006/09/...