project85

Camber is 1.5 degrees off right now...

Is this all I need to fix it? SPC EZ Cam XR 81260
( http://www.jegs.com/i/Specialty+Prod...81260/10002/-1 )

Just bring these bolts to the shop and get another alignment to fix my camber?

07OutlawGT

Yup its that easy. Did the same thing about 2 weeks ago when I had my Eibach Pro kit installed worked great and much cheaper than using the plates.

jayel579

1.5 off from what? What are your alignment specs now and what are you trying to get?

Need a little more information that what is in your car and what you want to buy to fix it.

project85

so it works with aftermarket shocks/struts?

passenger side is at -0.5

driver side is at -2.0

I notice a bit of negative wear on the driver side tire and no wear on the passenger side...
so I assume -0.5 is a good degree to be in

gmoran1469

-2? Jeez. Just for reference, I run mine at -1 on the street and I am gonna get it set back to stock and make a small clip for the top so I can throw them to -1.2 at the track. The wear on the inside of the tire is too much for me, especially with how I drive. Even though you didn't buy them, I would recommend some HD mounts. Makes adjusting the camber just that much easier.

07OutlawGT

Yes it installs in the upper side of the spindle depending on where the lobe is set you have +/- 2.0 degrees of adjusment there are 2 other options you can get the camber plates which will accomplish the same thing for about $200 or as I found out at the aligment shop the Hunter Alignment machine gave a option of notching the holes where these bolts go in (personally dont like the idea of this option for safety reasons). That being said the shop I used had used these type of offset bolts on other lowered applications and the owner of the shop was happy I brought em in they are the easiest/cheapest/safest option to get the results you want. Btw he was easily able to set my front end align back to stock specs even with the amount of drop achieved with the Pro kit.

project85

the shop also gave me that option to notch the hole but I didn't like that idea either

I'll go with the EZ CAM bolts... I was just making sure cuz I didn't wanna buy them only to find out they won't work with aftermarket struts

THANKS FOR THE HELP

hiltsy845

do most alignment shops carry camber bolts? are they vehicle specific?

Norm Peterson

Miscellaneous notes . . .

That -1.5° difference between R and L cambers is the number that shows up as "cross-camber" on the alignment printouts. Ford says this value should be less than 0.7°, which still seems a bit "sloppy".

Changing camber also affects the toe setting, more in some cars than in others. So after the camber is corrected, make sure that the toe at least gets checked.

-0.5° camber is a pretty mild setting, but if you do a lot more hard braking than hard cornering it's probably a good place to be. It's not all that far from Ford's factory-preferred setting of -0.75° and well within the acceptable range (anywhere between -0.25° and -1.25°). If your driving fits this description, you should be OK with correcting camber via crash/camber bolts. For driving that involves more frequent hard cornering . . . there are better solutions.

I doubt that any 'notching' would have amounted to much, just a slight ovalling of the hole in the appropriate direction (maybe 1/16"). That's enough to have concerns about possible 'slippage', since you lose the benefit of normal hole tolerancing on limiting it (duh) and loss of the alignment setting, but not about loss of structural integrity of the strut.


Norm

dkegel

Something is wrong here. Was the car in an accident? It seems that maybe your subframe (K-member) has shifted towards the drivers side. The springs themselves did not cause your camber to be that out of whack.

Dave