And Now For Something Completely Different

[scannon]

Has anyone any experience/knowledge of these tires? Sounds almost too good to be true.

http://www.cambertire.com/

[TheDingo8MyBaby]

those tires are matched perfect and staggered special!



Sorry..I couldn't resist.

This sort of technology has been around for a while...(patent was issued in 1999 which means the they probably submitted the patent around 1995) some tires use an asymmetrical sidewall to do the same thing.

[Dave W]

I would question "The Camber Tire superior in-line stability". The stabiltiy issue is probably not an issue on the race track, but on the road with a light Wt car, it is highly likely to cause the vehicle to pull to one side unless the tires are prefectly matched side to side in pairs. I spent two weeks in the britter cold tracking down a suspension design problem, that ended up being a cambered tire miss-match. On the track probably OK, on a light Wt Seven, I would wait until someone else can prove that the camber thrust is not a issue or they can control tire profile that good, before I would put my money down .
Dave W

[race fan]

Neet idea but not very pratical,the outside and inside of the tire have 2 differant rolling diamaters and will cause the left tire to pull to the right and the right tire to pull to the left,sort of like when you roll a drinking glass accrost the table,this will cause drag and tire scrub whitch will slow the car down and make it unstable a high speed,I have a ARCA stock car that we road race and in reasent years we have redune the suspention geometry so that when the car is at the apex of the corner both front wheels have 0 camber and have the greatest amount of tread on the track,we have seen lowwer lap times, better stability in fast corners and tread wear is 75% less (20 laps vs 80 laps) in closeing the problem is with the suspention design not the tire

Dave Planakis
Lotus 7 on steriods