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Got my car back together. Suspension-wise, the only change was
a set of low mileage 9 Bilsteins with whatever stock springs
that came with them.
I put front camber bolts in and have not adjusted them yet.
They are set to probably max camber right now. Anyway, here is
my last alignment. Many years ago, but probably only 2Kish miles
since.
Last year, I picked up a used hunter alignment system to use on my 4 post.
It was calibrated by my local hunter rep when he dropped it off.
I had heard the 9 springs lowered the rear a bit, so I can see the
extra camber there, but I was real surprised by the front toe change.
As mentioned, I do have the front camber set to max, and I am going
to back off of that to about 1.5, but will that change the toe back to
closer to stock?
Also, I did adjust rear since then, and had a heck of a time getting
adjustments to stick. Not so much that cam was moving, but it was
real easy to push car sideways tightening cams due to rear slip plates.
That seemed to jostle suspension just enough to change readings a
decent amount. For anyone who does there own alignments, do you
adjust rear camber or toe first? Most of my home alignment jobs
over the years were on SRA vehicles.
Finally, does anyone do their alignment sitting in the car? I'm maybe 155,
and I was getting .1, sometimes .2 degree front camber changes just from sitting
in the car. Can imagine some heavier guys changing static camber significantly
if you're setting up for track use.
Got it all figured out.
More front camber than I wanted.
I used camber bolts I purchased, but
the minimum they would go on one side was 2.3
Will see how it goes, I only put 10.4K miles on in 14
years, so not too worried about tire wear. If I
don't like it, I will figure something out with stock
upper bolts.
Feb 25, 2017, 05:01 AM
