Alignment Settings

10secdream

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I am going for a good all round street alignment and would like decent performance and wear. I have been looking around and came up with these numbers and hope to get the car alignment sometime this week. The car is lowered around 2 inches.

Front:
Camber -1.0
Caster +7.0
Toe 0.0

Rear:
Camber -1.5
Toe IN -0.04

Let me know what you think.
 
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Wiisass

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The alignment would depend on a lot of things. How stiff is your suspension, how much power you are putting down, how much the car weighs, etc.

Also, without aftermarket suspension arms, it might be hard to get everything exactly how you want. I would get it on the rack and see what you can get out of the eccentric bolts. Keeping things even side to side would be good.

But in terms of actual numbers, at least -1 degrees camber front and rear, depending on what you can get out of the adjustment. Caster around stock should be fine or wherever it will end up with stock adjustment, just make sure it's close to even side to side. For toe, I like a litle toe out in the front and a little toe in for the rear. Even just a little toe out in the front will help with turn in, but shouldn't affect tire wear that much. And a little toe in for the rear will keep the rear stable. Stock alignment specs call for a decent amount of toe in for the rear, but they're also just stock alignment specs, things change when you lower the car.

So get it on the rack, see what you can get and see how you like it.
 

grimreaper

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post up if you try those settings, im curious to see how you like it over all. i dunno much about this stuff so its new to me,
 

supradjza80

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I will be trying the following setup with my car.

Front
camber - -1.5
Caster - max that both sides match
Toe - 0

Rear
Camber - -1.0
Toe - 0

Wiisass - Have you found that a little toe out causes the car to be darty on the highway? I really would like to try the toe out in front but dont want my car darting around all the time.
 

10secdream

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Would you not want more negative camber in the rear?

Sorry I have not made any updates. I have been having some drive ability problems with the car and have been unable to get an alignment done.
 

supradjza80

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I like to have less camber in the rear to try and keep the tires more square with the road back there (for accelerative traction). More camber (to a point at least) in the front also helps with turn and over all grip as well.