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I will be getting my car aligned, this time with Tein SS's, and am wondering what might be a good camber for car that's mostly a daily driver, and occasionaly a track participant? Last time I got my car aligned, I had zero camber all the way around, and everyone gave me slack for it, saying maybe -1 degree front and back would be a good compromise between safety and aggresive driving. So what's your suggestion on camber?

 
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-1.25F
-.75R
No toe

 
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thanks man, can you reply to this thread?
HERES THE LINK

 
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how fast will theses seting eat the tires up

its this a good for day driving and some mountain raceing?

let me know thanks.

 
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-1.25 F
-.75 R
no toe

is going to be a good comprimise setup and will be easy on tires for daily driving but you are going to get more outer edge tire wear on trackdays and especially autocross. Depending on your tires try 42F - 38R pressures, maybe as low as 36 in the rear depending on your rear swaybar size and how comfy you are with oversteer.

I personally am using a

-2.0 camber F 0 toe
-0.5 camber R smidge of toe out

This is a pretty dedicated autoX and track setup but I still daily drive it. It gives very good even tirewear for racing and is acceptable on the street. The other advantage is that I can have equal tire pressures front to back allowing me to make full use of the tire's available grip on both ends whereas you're giving something up if you have to change one end or the other from the optimum tire pressure.

Alot of this depends on your spring rates, damping rates and sway bar sizes. As a general rule on 7th gens: the front suspension sucks much harder than the rear, therefore we need to take something away in the back to keep things even. We can try and maximize front grip most easily by having a fairly high initial camber with moderate spring and damper rates with a big enough sway bar to prevent excessive bodyroll. The rear is best delt with through low camber, a big rear sway bar, big spring rates and stiff damping in order to get the inside tire off the ground and the car rotating.

 
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ooooo thanks for the info.

 
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I went to a local tire/alignment place that know me and know how to work on cars in general. Anyway, i went in to get my camber set to -1.25f and -.75r. They set the rears close enough, but when they began to set the fronts to -1.25 the toe started to go wack. I was told they ran out of threads to adjust the toe any further. So, they had to set it to 0.0 in order to set the toe to zero. Has anyone else with the Tein Flex experienced this problem?

 
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Use the camber plate. It should go way more than 2 before it runs out of travel. Unless you really, really slammed it. The lower you go, the less toe travel you have.

 
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I don't have it slammed at all. Actually, it's quite high. I'm not good with alignment issues, but did my guy miss the fact to use the camber plate?

This isn't the first time i heard this either. Another alignment place, a place that does the alignment old school style, said that i had run out of thread. shizer!

 
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All I can tell you is I'm using the same camber plates tein uses on the Flex, with -2.25 and I've got enough threads left on the tie rods to go more. Go see where your camber plates are set. if theyre still at 0..... go raise hell.