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Old Nov 19, 2007 | 07:03 PM
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Coilovers are touching tire and messing up alignment?

I just recently installed some Megan Racing track coil overs and went to get an alignment, looking for -2 front and -1.5 rear. When I got there most of the tires were close but the driver front side was at -.7 and passenger was -2.1. When we got the camber on the driver side to -2.0 the coil over was touching the tire but on the passenger side it wasn't. So I was forced to run this alignment, is this ok to run different cambers? Could one of the coilovers be off?




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Old Nov 19, 2007 | 08:15 PM
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Nothing wrong with running different camber settings at all. There's no reason your caster should be off by .2*, but it leads me to believe that the camber adjustments were made by a sliding camber plate at the upper mount that adjusts some caster at the same time. How were the camber adjustments made on both sides? Were the made with the upper mount + the eccentric on the lower mount? Or just one or the other?
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Old Nov 19, 2007 | 08:20 PM
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if your tires are rubbing the coilover, give the suspension maximum POSITIVE camber from the camber bolt then adjust your camber from the camber plates up top
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