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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 08:50 AM
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Taking a trip from South Florida to the Atlanta area. I want to cruise some mountain roads and maybe some brisk driving if traffic is light. I've lowered my car about 1.5 in all around but never changed my alignment specs (actually never got it aligned after my drop as it still tracks straight) after it was lowered. I'm thinking of getting some camber dialed in but not sure how much. I'm thinking a little more camber won't kill my front tires. What do you guys recommend?
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Old May 27, 2009 | 08:48 AM
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if its lowered you probably alrady have more camber dialed in just from lowering it. or out i should say, it should push out negative when lowered.
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Old May 27, 2009 | 09:04 AM
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I do not like "negative " any thing, not thinking or camber or or, but back to your question, a little negative camber ( -.50 to -.75)will add stabalizy( sp) in the mountain roads

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Old May 27, 2009 | 01:55 PM
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I had alignment done and tow was way out and toe was around .5 I have 1.0 dialed in on both sides now. Made a nice difference.
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Old May 27, 2009 | 06:13 PM
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How are you guys adjusting camber?? Stock suspension doesn't have any camber adjustment built into it...
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Old May 27, 2009 | 06:41 PM
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O- YEP it is adjustable
look under the front of your car at the point where the front lower conrtol arms connect to the frame, the two bolts in the center which lay parell with the frame the mounting points are sloted which allow camber adjustment, the other two bolts which which point up are used to adjust caster.
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Old May 27, 2009 | 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by SS SLP2
O- YEP it is adjustable
look under the front of your car at the point where the front lower conrtol arms connect to the frame, the two bolts in the center which lay parell with the frame the mounting points are sloted which allow camber adjustment, the other two bolts which which point up are used to adjust caster.
good luck, Johnny
Interesting, never noticed that. Thanks for explaining.
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Old May 28, 2009 | 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by maxgee
I had alignment done and tow was way out and toe was around .5 I have 1.0 dialed in on both sides now. Made a nice difference.
Was that .5 (degrees, I assume) toe IN, or toe OUT?? Secondly,was that TOTAL toe, or per side?? The 1.0 you mention (again, I assume you mean degrees)...Is that toe IN, per side, or TOTAL? 1.0 degrees of toe in per side, is a bit too much.

What are your caster and camber settings??
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Toe is usually measured to the .01 of a degree, so i'm sure somebody is forgetting a decimal place.
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My camber -1 each side, toe set back to factory settings and caster 4.5 left and 4.9 right.
My bad on the confusion.
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Old May 29, 2009 | 05:58 AM
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Originally Posted by maxgee
My camber -1 each side, toe set back to factory settings and caster 4.5 left and 4.9 right.
My bad on the confusion.

With that much negative camber, you're going to cut corners like a "*****", but be prepared to buy a few tires.....
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Yes it handles nice in the turns
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mine too is set at -1 camber on both front and 5 deg caster on both front. I haven't had any tire issues. It handles very nice
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-1 degree I'd actually prefer way more than stock alignment specs. Mine was around .5 or 1 in the positive region and that was causing premature wear on the outside of the tire. -1 degree will probably wear a lot less than a lot of stock alignments even for daily driving.
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Originally Posted by z28bryan
-1 degree I'd actually prefer way more than stock alignment specs. Mine was around .5 or 1 in the positive region and that was causing premature wear on the outside of the tire. -1 degree will probably wear a lot less than a lot of stock alignments even for daily driving.
If you were running (+) 1 degree positive camber, you were concentrating a lot of the car's weight on the outside edges of the front tires. Turning corners exaggerated this, hence the tire wear.

(-) 1 degree camber does the same thing in reverse, with respect to straight line driving. However when you turn corners, you actually flatten the tread, with respect to the road surface, hence the tire wear isn't as noticible.
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