User 52121

Ok so maybe this has been covered already, I did a bunch of searches and didn't come up with anything.

Recently (last night) installed a set of LR camber plates in my car.

Right now, they are pretty well max'd out at the minimum camber setting... and I am at 1.8 degrees (thanks to a high-tech tool I made involving a screw, a chunk of angle iron, a digital caliper, a level, and some trigonometry - and double checked with a $30 magnetic angle finder I picked up at the hardware store).

According to the #'s on top I'm below 0. Actually on the passenger side I'm max'd all the way out to get to -1.8. Driver's side there is a little bit of room but not much.

My car is an early offset (86 Turbo). Are these things intended to be for late offset cars or something? Because if I set these to the "2.0" marks I'd probably be at like 4+ degrees LOL.

I trust my math on measuring the wheel. Is this just a known issue? Or is it perhaps because the camber setting at the bottom of the strut is adjusted? (I was at 1.8 before installing the camber plates, with the stock strut bushings.)

User 52121

Actually... in thinking about it, I guess it kinda makes sense.

It's set to -1.8 at the bottom. So that'd be ~0 at the top to get to 1.8 at the wheel. When you guys align these with plates do you usually zero out the bottom?

I guess it doesn't really matter...

rlm328

I set where I want my desired alignment in the middle of the camber plates. Then adjusted the desired alignment using adjustment bolts on the bottom of the shock. This way you can add or take out camber at the track as needed.

951and944S

+1....and this also keeps the struts physically at the same angle.

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