The camber (on stock Spitfire rears) is totally base upon ride height. If
you think about the way a swing axle works, and visualize things you can
see that the only way to achieve parallel rear wheels is to have the car
sit at the correct height that achieves this. Higher and you get positive,
lower and you get negative camber. Shocks themselves have nothing to do
with ride height. All shocks (besides air shocks) do is control rebound
and bounce, nothing more You can take your shocks off and the ride height
remains the same. They don't change the spring rate, only dampen it. So
to achieve what you want you have to jack up the rear of the car until you
have the wheels cambered where you want them, and either make a
block/spacer or have the spring re-arched to bring the car to the level
where you want it. Personalty I'd stay with the negative camber as it will
improve handling quite a bit - of course there is the air shock conversion
on the VTR website as an alternative-
Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
72 PI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
70 Spitfire (long term project)
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