Well finally at last I was able to coordinate a mutually convenient time with my bro to get the alignment on my EVO done at the dealership he works at in NJ. Getting this done completes my suspension/braking set-up (with a street/highway car in mind)......All I can say is.... Mitsu sucks for selling us cars without a proper alignment (my front and rear toe settings were way off spec), and that I wish I could have gotten this done earlier and lastly the car rides like a dream now and rolls down the street/highway with a lot less resistance.

Onto the pics:


Upon arrival at the shop late saturday afternoon my bro had just finished doing an alignment on his own car


Here we just successfully loaded the car onto the alignment rack w/o ripping my entire front CF lip off....we had to throw some wooden boards underneath the front wheels to make this happen......


Here he is setting up the sensors/mounts etc. I got to see how the equipment goes on and how you have to calibrate the settings so that the lasers send back a reading to the computer


The assembly completed


Here my bro is setting up the front by lifting it up a bit.....

So all in all the process took us less than 45 minutes to do.... from rolling the car on, setting up the equipment, making the adjustments, and taking the car off the rack.

In the end I/we set the toe to "0" all around and camber to -1.5 degrees front and rear. The funny thing is that with the front camber bolts set at the "-2" setting, the alignment machine was telling us that my front driver side had -1.7 camber and the front pass side had -1.5 camber.... at this point in time I was like "whatever" and just left it at that.

Overall, it was a good experience seeing all this get done and seeing how the equipment works......hopefully next time around I can get more hands on experience....

 

thats cool! i was just thinkin today how sick it would be if i could do a wheel alignment and suspension setup on my car....... or any car.. lawlz skillz!!

 

^^ You can....I will post a How To do an alignment at home with just a few basic tools....This is the way many racers did alignments for years at the track and can be as accurate as if done with 'expensive' equipment.

 

Do post that how-to becuase I'd like to learn also....

 

Yeah, isn't this how Robi aka Robispec does alignments for customers in the field...using a tape measure, string, etc...? I'd love to learn it myself.

 

I'm also running -1.5 all around with the stock camber bolts; that's all I could get! It was either than or .5 (positive)...

 

I see....

I'll be posting up the screenshot of the alignment specs off the machine later

 

yep, whenever you buy new evo, just make sure you check an aligment, you might get suprised how sscrew up the setting is. people dont beat on turns and they get bad tire wear from inside on stock suspension...

 

All you need is some string.

Good stuff thanks for the post and pictures!