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airbags?

skruffy wrote: How long will a set of tires last with 15-25deg camber? 2500 miles before the inch or so of tread that touches the road is corded would be my guess.

then flip the tire and you get another 2500 miles on the other side of the tire...

i bet it's not that much either.

Autolex wrote: airbags?

That was my thought too. Or some kind of hydraulics on the suspension. If so they need to jack it up some to drive.

I dont think that civic has a FR suspension. I'd almost call that a setup. the VW on the other hand.....

Duke wrote:

John Brown wrote: Gotta be a Pennsylvania thing.

It started as a Japan thing, as do most trends that are something simple taken far beyond the point of absurdity.

this

Bosozoku/shakotan cars are all about this.

That Civic is almost definitely posed without lugs. There's no way you can get that much camber out of a Civic without the frame sitting on the ground.

I like the stretch-tire/low-offset look and a little negative camber looks cool, but it goes horribly wrong when it's taken too far.

At that point they ought to just run motorcycle tires.

Josh wrote: At that point they ought to just run motorcycle tires.

Where is that thread from a month or two ago about a car that I think made it through a Babe rally and a Lemons then went to a demo derby? It had motorcycles tires for the derby. It needed a whole lot more camber though to make it in this thread.

Who would put the rear suspension of a Mk ! Spitfire under a Civic?

I'm ashamed to say this may be on its way to Texas. I saw a Focus tonight that had way too much negative camber, and had wheel offsets such that they were sticking out from the fenders (with more or less nominal width wheels/tires for a Focus).

skruffy wrote: How long will a set of tires last with 15-25deg camber? 2500 miles before the inch or so of tread that touches the road is corded would be my guess.

Longer than the wheel bearings or CVs

Duke wrote:

John Brown wrote: Gotta be a Pennsylvania thing.

[edit] Oh, and the Civic's trunk is actually an interpretation of Burberry Check, which is the personal accessory of choice for chavs.

I can definitly see this looser driving that civic

On the side of the road, changing his wheel bearing???

That's the price you have to pay to be bleeding edge cool. BTW, I like the way the yellow DUI tag is mounted at an angle, bet the fuzz think that's hilarious. That's one in the eye for The Man.

TJ wrote:

Josh wrote: At that point they ought to just run motorcycle tires.

Where is that thread from a month or two ago about a car that I think made it through a Babe rally and a Lemons then went to a demo derby? It had motorcycles tires for the derby. It needed a whole lot more camber though to make it in this thread.

I'm running it in another demolition derby in nine days, so we'll see how much negative camber it has when I'm done.

That Civic is almost definitely posed without lugs. There's no way you can get that much camber out of a Civic without the frame sitting on the ground.

With a torch and a grinder, you can get nearly unlimited negative camber out of a Civic without dropping ride height at all.

If this becomes a fad in the Atlanta area before I can get my Civic sold, I'm putting a second set of fake wheels on the outside, perpendicular to the road to make it look like -90 degrees of camber. Seems the only way you can parody something that bad.

What a waste of an otherwise cool Rabbit.

Any links to sites that are all about this stupidity? It's like a bad train-wreck, I can't help but want to look...

petegossett wrote: Any links to sites that are all about this stupidity? It's like a bad train-wreck, I can't help but want to look...

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4565221

I followed a focus the other day that looked almost as bad as that civic, only it was a fat older guy driving it on stock steelies. Not sure it was intentional, but I was trying to figure out how that much camber was possible unintentionally.

I'll bet the local tire dealers are happy with this crazy fad. And the auto parts stores.

Hummmmm Just dont know what to say.

donalson wrote: then flip the tire and you get another 250 miles on the other set of wheel bearings...

Fixed.