[Krawlin]

Camber rise can be a good thing, especially on a heavy MT that has quite a bit of body roll, the camber rise will cause the tire to stay more perpendicular to the ground, as a result it maintains a larger contact patch as the chassis rolls away from the inside of the corner.

With camber rise, say you are moving pretty quick and make a hard left turn, the chassis rolls to the right, and the right side (outside) suspension compresses, causing the camber to rise up which keeps the outside tires to stay more perpendicular to the ground, maintaining a larger contact patch and thus more traction in the process, which means you can go faster through the corner.

Now the same situation without camber rise, you make a hard left turn and the chassis rolls to the right, and the right side (outside suspension compresses, the camber doesn't rise and it actually tilts the wheels towards the outside of the corner, greatly reducing the amount of area the tire has in contact with the ground, less contact area means less traction, resulting in the truck wanting to lose grip and push to the outside of the corner. Be it a banked or flat corner on a track or just bashing in a dirt field, camber rise is beneficial to handling in all situations.

Take a look at a 1/8 on road race car (Mugen or Serpent for instance), you'll see that their rear upper suspension links are angled very steeply, high at the hub and low at the chassis, so as they corner the camber rises quickly and keeps as much of those fat rear tires in contact with the ground as possible. Camber rise is very good in on road situations and its just as good in off road situations, it's not something you want to try to get rid of, however you can have too much and there is a fine line between just right and too much, but don't try to eliminate it.

I think your MGT will handle much better than a stock one with the addition of those Revo knuckles, if there weren't anything else factoring in to the handling there, I would say that alone would make a big difference.



Also, as far as being able to adjust camber rise, well that can get a bit confusing. If I remember correctly, changing the camber rise at the knuckle/hub (which would be changing the spacing of the upper and lower arms at the wheel) will not affect the car's roll center, but changing the roll center (distance between the arms upper and lower arms at the chassis vertically, as well as horizontally) will affect the camber rise, while typically very minimally, it does change the camber rise. So if you were to raise or lower the upper arm mounts on the MGT, you would be changing the roll center directly, and the camber rise would be changed as a result of changing the roll center.

I say run with it like it is, my MGT turned like a semi truck (stock knuckles, etc.), I'd imagine yours will handle alot better even if it does have some minor bump steer. And if you want some more info on suspension adjustments, download a copy of the Hudy Off-road & Truggy Set-up Book, tells all about that stuff.