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Old 06-30-2009, 06:18 PM
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Default Alignment questions (front camber/toe mainly)

Going in to have the front alignment redone and check the rear from last year...I cant find the sheet that I had written my last specs down on but here is what I recall:

-2.0 front, max caster, unsure of toe setting
-1.3 rear, probably stock toe-in I would guess

Last time I had a mix-match of early/late parts up front and was using the camber plates in a fixed state....well now its full late offset. Id like to actually use the camber plates and have a street and track setting like my other car has.

For those that have camber plates what are your street / track settings up front?

From reading past threads around here not many people seem to set their cars up with toe-out up front - why is that? Or is that just because those folks dont have camber plates?

I figure I can get the guy to set a decent street camber setting with a little toe-in and then when I slide the plate in to around -2.0 / -2.5 I can get a bit of toe-out. Im not running r-comps on this car at this time so I think my desired camber numbers are OK for "street" tires (Falken Azenis RT-615's)....thoughts? What has worked for others?

Car has bilstein escorts, no t-bars, delrin in the spring plate, delrin in the front control arm, 968 caster blocks, 968 mo30 sways, 9's all the way around (255 front / 275 rear). Should I leave the rear with stock toe-in? For some reason I recall only being able to get -1.3 camber out of the rear, could be wrong though.




Just food for thought and why I am asking the above. Here are my BMW settings which is my daily driver and feels great, stable under braking/speed with awesome turn-in:
Street: -2.0 camber / toe-in ~1/8
Track: -3.5 camber / toe-out ~1/8
Rear is not adjustable at all on these cars, (just camber d/t rear ride height)
Toyo RA1's 255/40 on all 4

Thanks,
Sam



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