nfordhk

hi,

I recently had my car on coilovers and put the stock suspension back in because im selling it to my family member. I went to go get an alignment and theyre talking about removing the front struts and having to drill bigger holes likes its this huge modification needed.

I'm just like what?

Can someone please provide some insight?

86HOGT

The previous owner of my car put sport lines in without replacing anything else. When I removed the struts assembly last week I seen whoever aligned it elongated the bottom strut hole so they could correct the camber.

They're either talking about doing that or elongating the strut tower holes to adjust as well, but if you put everything to stock I can't imagine any modifications should be needed to get it to fall into spec

Norm Peterson

I am assuming that they at least measured the camber that was there after you returned the suspension to stock and didn't just eyeball the car. And that they know the OE preferred camber spec is -0.75°, not zero. Anything else means they're either just guessing or trying to squeeze some extra work out of you.

It is possible that on re-assembly your car's alignment could differ from its OE settings due to bolt to hole clearances being taken up differently, or if the spring isolator was left off.

It is even possible that your car's cambers were never at -0.75° to begin with (both sides on my car were beyond -1.5° from the day I drove it home with 5 miles on the clock).


Edit - if this other family member youo're going to sell it to tends to drive with some enthusiasm for cornering, setting cambers to -1° to maybe -1.2° might actually be better than OE preferred. A really enthusiastic corner-carver sort of person might be able to use even more without getting uneven treadwear on the front tires.


Norm

nfordhk

It's at -2 right now. But -2 isn't too bad. I'm just going to have them set the toe and be done with it. Thanks guys!