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Old 03-03-2010, 10:15 AM
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I usually don't use my stang as a DD, but from the way it looks, everything is still stock. The only things that I have changed is the struts and the camber plates I noticed on there.
I could be wrong though. I haven't gone all in and under the car either. I believe he said the alignment needed to be at 2% or .2. Mine was at like 5.
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Old 03-03-2010, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by marioso28
Basically, from what I was told, the car is warped from the top where the camber plates are, to the tires. It is doing a ) shape. He mentioned I might want to change springs, control arms, and what not, but I just wanted to see what might help the most.....


Pics will be up soon....
you need a second opinion, take it to another shop!!!
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:15 PM
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Lawl if your body was warped how will changing suspension parts correct it? Do the suspension parts wake up in the middle of the night and cut and weld the car back together properly? Transformer suspension!!!

Sounds like he wants labor. I mean **** you can rack up the charges when doing an entire suspension at once... not like it takes 2-3 hours to do springs when the suspension is already dissassembled.
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Old 03-03-2010, 12:22 PM
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I would almost bet that your strut bushings are shot. That alone can throw off the alignment pretty bad.
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Old 03-03-2010, 01:36 PM
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I have called around to a few places and have directed to a certain shop that will diagnose the problem precisely for no charge. I was told by a few numerous people that either it is the strut bushings( Thanks projectresto 83), the springs, or some front end frame damage.
A few places told me about this shop and said they are really good about pin pointing the problem so that way they can find out if it is an alignment problem or a frame problem.
I do have minor front end frame damage but hopefully that is not the case. I am going to take my car over there probably tomorrow and will update everyone with what is going on .
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Old 03-03-2010, 03:55 PM
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If you look at my passenger side tower you can see how shot mine were on the 83.

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Old 03-03-2010, 06:47 PM
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Did that give you a large problem with your alignment? I will put a pic of my towers as soon as I can....
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Old 03-03-2010, 07:39 PM
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It caused it to pull in that direction and you could notice the camber from it but I didn't care really. I didn't have good tires on it and it really didn't bother me for the 9 months that I drove the car.
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Old 03-03-2010, 08:46 PM
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I see. I will see what the shop says tomorrow and if they are stumped, I will take pictures and at least change the bushings and maybe the springs.
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Old 03-03-2010, 09:41 PM
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Hell if your going to change the springs get some lowering springs and tell them to align that lol. Here are some bushings.

http://www.latemodelrestoration.com/...nt-Bushing-Kit
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