arijaycomet
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Measured the ground clearance with the car lowered this morning. It's now about 4" all around. Given that I lowered the car about .75 at the low height setting, that's what it should be, given the above ground clearance data. But in the lowest setting rear camber is now -1.9, so lowering the car .75 inches resulted in a .9 change in the rear camber, which means the rear tire wear problem will return if I run the car at speed in the low setting. And at the new lower height the ability to adjust the camber any further is gone, even with the adjustable camber links.
So on the highway the standard height setting will be it for me: park and low speeds in low height, highway speeds in standard height (which for me is now the same as the stock low height).
Hmm interesting. I agree with redi -- camber alone won't kill the tires. Toe and camber combined might be the culprit. I'd imagine, as stated above, those who run in Standard height see the least tire wear. Going to low on the freeway is not going to help. Actually, if someone wanted to increase tire wear by changing toe AND perhaps the upper links, at stock height, that'd be an interesting test for tire wear.
But I digress... my plans are to lower the car similarly to you, artsci-- but just a slight bit more. I'll probably just set the front links to the 35mm that Mark said is the minimum... so a 1.38 inch drop roughly. When I lowered my coil spring S85 by 38mm and used the rear upper arms I was able to get camber to -1.2 degrees front and rear all around. Roughly speaking that was 4.15" ground clearance. If this drop is 35mm then I'll be another 0.4 inches lower when in Normal mode. Based on your figures, I should have -1.6 negative camber, roughly. Hmmm... that might be too much! I definitely won't be able to drive in the LOW setting then... but it will look cool when parked, in low.