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Outside of front tires is disappearing

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Old 01-21-10 | 09:42 PM
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stock fbs come with positive front camber..
Old 01-22-10 | 12:09 AM
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if the tires are wearing on just the outside it is too much positive camber, too much toe would give them kind of a chopped feeling when you run your hand across the tire instead of a "smooth" feeling.
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iirc stock is 0 - +1 deg in the front
Old 01-28-10 | 06:32 AM
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Well to continue the story

The front end was sagging, lots o neg camber, the toe was out of wack. I got 13x6.5? enki rims + dot legal slicks basically after, they didn't wear too bad.

Car was stolen & wrecked, story ends... lol this can be closed
Old 01-28-10 | 12:23 PM
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Old 01-28-10 | 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by cmanns
So the tires just wearing down in the front, it goes pretty straight considering I've never used manual steering just on slanted streets it moves

The outside of the tire is gone and hard, the insides are soft and lots of miles to go.

My dad told me rotating bad tires on the back (worn funky) can be dangerous on a rwd car and that rwd needs best in the back and fwd needs the best in the rear or something.

I'm thinking bout putting these old SA wheels on (Same as mine) the tires are newish but have not been driven on much in 3 years at least, they arnt cracking or anything... my front tires sidewall has cracks

I see a good bit of neg camber in the front, why would the outsides wear? I thought neg camber caused the insides to wear.
NVM. Sorry to hear about the stolen car.
Old 01-28-10 | 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by cmanns
Well to continue the story

The front end was sagging, lots o neg camber, the toe was out of wack. I got 13x6.5? enki rims + dot legal slicks basically after, they didn't wear too bad.

Car was stolen & wrecked, story ends... lol this can be closed
my friend put an LS1 into his 7 series volvo (actually its a v90), its the simplest swap ive ever seen...
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