Larry Cable

shall we send you a set?

911SLOW

Larry Cable

I am actually serious ... for you, I would do this!

911SLOW

Larry thanks I appreciate it!

kyrocks

Alright...got a phone call and email from my Porsche dealer today (I was working so I couldn't answer either) saying they did an alignment on my car, but couldn't get the specs I wanted. The most camber they could get in the front was -2.1 degrees, therefore they did the following:

Front: -2.1 camber each side, 0 toe, castor 7.9
Rear: -1.9 camber each side, 0.1 degree toe in a side (0.2 total)

WTF ??!
They said they maxed out the camber on the front and it only goes to -2.1. I don't think they know what they're doing. Any explanations? Anyone know of any good "race" shops in Des Moines, Omaha, or Kansas City...or I guess I can keep this alignment until I move south this July. Thanks. Just frustrated.

Larry Cable

I had the same problem with my dealer a couple of years ago when I asked them to align my .1 GT3 to the factory track specs; 1) they did not know such a thing existed, so I had to point them to the page in the .1 owners manual, 2) they failed, so they picked an arbitrary alignment 'as best they could' and only told me when I showed up to collect the car ... when I baulked at this there was no offer to make good.

bottom line, I have no confidence/expectation, that even a factory trained tech @ a dealer has a clue how to set up an alignment that is not a factory spec.

My guess is that they have no idea about rotating the front camber plates, or about shimming the control arms either.

kyrocks

That's exactly what I said to them in my return email. Oh well.

LehmanZ06

I have about -2.6 in front.

If you want that I would recommend having a shop rotate the front struts, and adding 2 small shims each side in order to bring caster up after strut rotation.

The value in the front doesn't seem bad.......you might want more camber in the rear...say like -2.1 to -2.2 to match your front. The rear camber adjustment does not need any shims or strut rotation, so my advice would be to have them reset your rear camber to the same value as your front, and to set front toe to 0, and rear to between .1 to .2 each side.

FTS

They cannot go more than that because they are not aware of the spacer shims on the control arms. You need additional shims to get beyond -2.1 on the front.

http://www.tarett.com/items/996-997-...him-detail.htm

kyrocks

Thanks for the input guys.

Now that my initial frustration is over, the guys at the dealer are great people and it's not their fault they don't know everything. It's a smaller dealer in a smaller city and they take care of me well. There's not a lot of GT3/RS owners knocking on their door asking for track alignments. I'm still learning the car and need more seat time so the alignment will be fine. Once I get more seat time, I'll get more aggressive settings.