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Sep 20, 2005

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alignment settings - what's yours?????

Okay, im getting my car aligned tommorow, is everyone in agreement that

-1.25 front
-0.75 rear
no toe

that these settings are best for daily driving, with a sporty ride, and some occasionaly twisty curvy roads????

Tell me what you got!

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Sep 20, 2005

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Front
-2.1
0 toe

Rear
-1.7ish
8th toe in

But i need more than sporty driving

Sep 20, 2005

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Thats fine for general screwing around.

Sep 20, 2005

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Quote:

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Will be good enough for 99.9999999% of the people! Its all a matter of how much tire wear your willing to give up

Sep 20, 2005

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I didn't know you can choose....

Sep 21, 2005

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I didn't know you can choose....

You'd be suprised how much of the cars handling can be tweaked by a simple alignment. only tradeoff really is tire wear....

Sep 21, 2005

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Front: -2 degrees
1/8 toe out

Rear: -1.7 degrees
0 toe

perfect alignment for towing a race bike around the mountains

Sep 23, 2005

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so i just walk into a shop, tell them you want an allignment, and give them those settings?

Sep 23, 2005

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Provided you have the capability to adjust it to the specs you give them.

Sep 23, 2005

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unless there *******s like Sears, and just "get it within factory specs" after I told them specifically what I wanted, and they didn't. A-holes!!!

Sep 25, 2005

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i had -2.5 F
-1.8 R

0 toe all around

rear was 14kg/mm tho and front 10kg/mm had alot of oversteer but i liked it

Sep 25, 2005

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unless there *******s like Sears, and just "get it within factory specs" after I told them specifically what I wanted, and they didn't. A-holes!!!

You can't take your car to the low ball. You tend to have to be willing to pay someone to do it. $44.95 alignments or whatever it is doesn't usually work because you give it to one guy, someone else pulls it in, then 2 other guys do the job. Find Joe Schmo who does it and you can hang out at the door to the bay.

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or in the driver's seat...

Sep 26, 2005

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i payed $69 for that alignment.

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when i put my b&g on i had a toe of -2. haha.

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what would be best for not much tie wear, but also good for handling.

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8th toe in all around

-1 front
-.75ish rear

Just my 2 cents.

Oct 12, 2005

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with those settings I'd still have good handling?

Oct 12, 2005

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Also, do I need to install the front camber kit? Or is the front suspension easy to adjust without them? They seem kind of useless.

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Also, do I need to install the front camber kit? Or is the front suspension easy to adjust without them? They seem kind of useless.

The only factory adjustment is toe frt and rear, if camber needs to be adjusted then you must buy a camber kit to make it adjustable

Oct 12, 2005

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what about caster? would the camber kit adjust caster also?

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No. Caster isn't adjustable. I know of one set of camber plates that allow caster adjustments, but I've never seen anyone buy them, I believe you have to import them from australia.

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No. Caster isn't adjustable. I know of one set of camber plates that allow caster adjustments, but I've never seen anyone buy them, I believe you have to import them from australia.

^^ is correct and rarely does caster go out of spec and if it does caster isnt a main tire wearing factor. It's more for stability than anything else. If there is a HUGE caster difference as in more then .5 degrees from side to side then most likely something is bent and needs to be replaced.

Oct 13, 2005

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got mine done today..
front L -0.01 Right -0.01 camber
rear L -0.5 Right -0.9 camber

i have both front and rear spc camber kits and its lowered over 3 inches.

Dec 29, 2005

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mine is
0 front
-1.5 rear

is it good?

Dec 29, 2005

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mine is
0 front
-1.5 rear

is it good?

Camber like that will be fine for putting around the street...but push it a little bit and you'll see understeer city. Great for keeping you safe, suxors for cornering.

Got an alignment finally (rather then a DIY aligment) so I have actual #'s now...

-2.6 camber Front with 1/16th toe out on the nose.
-1.6 camber Rear with 0 toe.

Dec 29, 2005

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How the hell did you get -2.6 with toe out? Didn't you run out of tie rod around 2? You suck!

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Rob I could to it too, but I stopped. Maybe your car just sucks.

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i got a quick question about alignment...got my alignment couple months ago from the dealership...don't they align the back also? cause my rear tires are getting worn out on the inner part. i thought when i go there and ask them to align my car, they'd do all, not just the front. am i wrong? or you can't align the back? i just have springs with stock shocks...