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Originally Posted by sybir
Alex, how critical (not being an ass, genuinely curious) is a minor camber change? Seems like you're worrying about the wrong things. 1/4" of ride height is not going to change your balance significantly enough to fundamentally change the car, and being a quarter of a degree off with camber is going to matter even less. Make a marker line, yank them, do what you need to. Toe makes a much bigger difference than a minor camber change front and rear on a dirt car, and that isn't going to change with a strut pull/reinstall.
I've done many, many coilover installs and never had an issue dialing camber back in about where I need it. Hell, buy a level and use that in a pinch - that's all most camber gauges are anyways, just with more specific attachment points. If you don't want to buy a cheapie set of Summit camber tools, then make something else work - DIY is ok as long as it's repeatable.
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Oh ya .. slight camber change, probably won't matter in the end results.
Good point.
and yes you are right on the money, toe really changes handling on the dirt. I did one rally with some toe out in the rear, and that was damn scary any time i was over 60mph
I'm probably Incorrectly assuming that my car has more oversteer due to the ride height changes My front got lowered about a 1/2 inch do to the install and not adjusting the front, I was too busy being in a panic over the rear. got my alignment done that way , and didn't want to change it afterwards. I do have toe plates so i could raise the front and adjust the Toe back to zero or 1/32 out. ...
I might need a slight bit of toe In , on the rear now. But Sunday was the first time I've pushed my car at all since the AWD conversion, and RS 2.5 swap . so i went with my "FWD alignment" as my starting point .
Front : -1.6 front 1/32 tow
Rear : -1.0 0 toe
(I found some old WRC Principle setup documents to find what they were using in 01, i think still on the GC chassis i went with slightly more camber since i'm using 185, versus them on 205s)
thanks. think i just got too caught up in being frustrated over the situation to think about everything clearly. (6 weeks late, and rear fitment issues, for twice as much as i paid for Ksport) We did the coilover install late Friday night and my alignment was Saturday morning.