floating axles, camber for Ford 8.8" axle

[lifespeed]

I'm considering upgrading my Ford 8.8" axle with Winter's Performance floating axle spindles, hubs and axles. I am getting tired of the poor wear life and load carrying capacity of the factory c-clip axle design. This is in a 2004 Mercury Marauder. Yes, I know the ubiquitous Ford 9" makes a lot of sense in many applications, but this car has parallel 4-link suspension with a Watts link that mounts above the center section of the diff. Adapting the suspension to a 9" would be painful, to say the least.

So I thought I would hire a competent axle shop (suggestions are welcome) to weld on the floater spindle axle tube ends, while I fabricate an ABS tone ring to bolt to the inside of the brake rotor mounting circle, as well as caliper mounting plates to weld to the axle tubes. Obviously the factory brakes are gone, I do have the Wilwood NMDP calipers on the rear right now.

The question I have is, would it be reasonable to run 0.5 degree cambered spindles with the Winter's ball drive hub? These have a ball bearing in each large "spline" to allow for the slight misalignment between axle and hub due to the camber. I don't know if this setup is used in any kind of endurance racing, or if it would be reasonable to use in a street car application with any kind of reasonable life expectancy. The negative camber in the rear would be quite a handling improvement, but I don't want to replace the ball drive flanges every 10K miles.

Any circle track guys here familiar with the Winter's setups?

See pages 41 and 48 of their catalog . . . (warning, they still use Adobe Flash)