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Re: Double wishbone suspension vs. macpherson strut Sun, 03 April 2005 00:44 Go to previous message
all i can say is it depends on how much the car rolls...

the point of having a camber curve is not to keep the camber when the car rolls, but to keep the tyre as flat as possible relative to road, regardless of what the body of the car is doing.

if the car doesn't roll much, you don't need much camber.
if it rolls a lot, you need heaps of camber to keep tyre flat during cornering.

how you achieve that is up to you, but think of MS as a relatively fixed camber setup (only changes as the lower arm changes it's "width"), and DW as a variable camber setup.
Cya, Stewart
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