Corksport Front camber plates

[Oldhead]

Great news ,Corksport are developing front adjustable camber plates for our outrageous OEM tyre scrub.
Yahoo this should help with tyre wear once installed.
Initial sets being trialled by some mazdaspeed forum guys.
Stay tuned.

[Nepharius]

These for both the 6 and the 3?

[Oldhead]

Cant confirm for 6 ,but if front struts are same as MPS3 ,i dont expect a problem.
Check out mazdaspeed forum /gen2 / (wheels /suspension ). Someone who knows how to copy or link the details of corksport camber plates to this thread. Thanks.

[bd581]

6 MPS doesn't have struts, so the answer is no, I can't see them fitting. The suspension in the 6 and 3 is completely different.

Still, I don't see the point of adjustable camber being used to reduce tyre wear.
Stand the wheel up and all you will do is wear the whole tyre out, not just the inner edge. You might get a bit more life, but not much.
You will get far more life out of the tyres by removing the tyres from the rims and swapping left and right.
By doing that the warn inner will now be the outer getting little to no wear, the old (good) outside edge is now getting the wear and your tyres should double its life.
The $15-20 each to do that is far cheaper than new tyres or camber kits.

I'd really only worry about camber kits if for some reason you can't get the alignment to specs.

[Grajy]

I've never had any issues with incorrectly wearing tyres...

[Yeldarb]

Great news ,Corksport are developing front adjustable camber plates for our outrageous OEM tyre scrub.
Yahoo this should help with tyre wear once installed.
Initial sets being trialled by some mazdaspeed forum guys.
Stay tuned.

ok, don't shoot me, but why should we be happy about this? I thought our issues where just the rear...end...of the car...

[bd581]

I've never had any issues with incorrectly wearing tyres...

Nor have i, 30,000km on the tyres, if i did as i said (the swap tyres thing) i think i would easily get another 25-30000km. Only bought new tyres because i wanted wider and taller tyres.

[Cton]

These camber plates are really to be adding extra camber, so you can go to the track and quickly dial in more camber. Not help with tyre wear. You shouldn't have too much problem with the front wear if you get a good alignment. Especially at stock ride Hight.

[Yeldarb]

ok, I am planning on coming down a bit over the next few weeks. Got some new suspension on order. May need to look at the US forums and see what they're all about...

I read a few comments over there:

Ground Control CC plates typically give you more shaft travel allowing you to run a lower ride height without sacrificing bump travel. In addition the caster adjustment that most of their designs allow for is a huge bonus.

[Oldhead]

6 MPS doesn't have struts, so the answer is no, I can't see them fitting. The suspension in the 6 and 3 is completely different.

Still, I don't see the point of adjustable camber being used to reduce tyre wear.
Stand the wheel up and all you will do is wear the whole tyre out, not just the inner edge. You might get a bit more life, but not much.
You will get far more life out of the tyres by removing the tyres from the rims and swapping left and right.
By doing that the warn inner will now be the outer getting little to no wear, the old (good) outside edge is now getting the wear and your tyres should double its life.
The $15-20 each to do that is far cheaper than new tyres or camber kits.

I'd really only worry about camber kits if for some reason you can't get the alignment to specs.

OEM alignment spec for gen 2 is too large a variance.
OEM Front end has little or no camber adjustment at all and very little toe adjustment. Designed as original so as to benefit steering.Turn in .
Oem rear has again too large a variance in camber. Again so as to assist rear end holding on to road.
Currently 17000 klms and tyres are shot. Run 40 psi to front and 38 psi to rear ,tyres have been rotated every 500klms. (leelu,yeldarb,postmandan) from memory .
I dont and many others dont want to have to spend upwards of $400.00 per corner every 20k .
Fully understand that tyres need to be swapped over to alternate wheels, but the shoulders will still receive unwanted wear.
This issue has been discussed many times on this forum as well as overseas, UNacceptable wear. We will never get very good tyre life ,as these cars have been set up for performance driving,but to sacrifice a minor amount of handling as most of our use is every day conditions not track, or trialing .