Hi Guys - do any of you have a camber gauge I could borrow by chance? I think I paid close enough attention to Robi when he was here that I can do my own alignments now. Right now I'm running -2 front camber, and it is really chewing up my front tires pretty fast, so I want to dial it back some.

I'm thinking about buying some camber plates and this guage eventually, so I can do track side changes. Any opinions / experience with this gizmo?

http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/art1.htm

 

Do u have springs or anything?

 

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sh...3&page=5&pp=15

scroll down.

 

That's a pretty cool tool. If you change your camber, don't you also have to adjust toe and caster as well to match?

 

Caster is not adjustable on the Evo (as far as I know). Toe might slightly change with camber (more negative camber = more toe in)? I'm still hunting for "laser line" gadget to be able to do toe as well.

 

Flipping the strut bolts to get more camber will definitely give you toe in. If you don't adjust the toe after you flip the bolts you will get major tire wear because of the toe in.

You can adjust toe in your garage very easily. Here's how:
*Go to Home Depot and buy a carpenter's plumb and some string
*Lay the string(that is attached to the carpenter's plumb) in the center grove of one of your front tires with the plumb dangling on the rear side of the tire
*Make an X mark on the floor
*Repeat for the front of the tire and the other side until you have 4 X marks on your garage floor
*Measure the distance between both of the front marks and both of the rear marks
*If both of the measurements are not equal, your toe is off
*If they are equal, you have 0 degrees toe
*Adjust the tie rods equally on both sides in small increments(1/4 turn) and remeasure until the front and rear measurements are equal, or where you want them to be

Make sense?

 

Almost, except you are only verifying your wheels to be parallel this way. If you have -1 toe on side and +1 on the other, the distances will still be equal.

 

You need to define the center or "thrust" line of the car, then it will work:
http://quadesl.com/miata_alignment.shtml

 

http://www.longacreracing.com/

http://www.northwestracing.com/

 

The garage mechanic accomplishes this by closing one eye and lining up the steering wheel.

Everything I mentioned assumes that both sides are equally off. If not, the steering wheel won't be straight when driving straight.

 

You never looked on top of the refrigerator in the shop huh? I have that exact setup, I've honestly not really used it though since I have free access to one of these for my car http://www.hunter.com/pub/product/al...118T/index.htm
Just remind me to grab it next time you're at the shop.

 

Sweet - nothing like "try before you buy". Thanks Nick .

 

RETARD, figure it out Ralph