[Shotimes] need more front camber 93 SHO

[Carl Prochilo]

Oh, okay, your post makes more sense now.  Well, you should try to find out
how old the Tokicos are.  I've gotten about 90K out of mine before I thought
they needed to be replaced.

My 92 has had this setup for years and am running that much negative camber.
Everything in your post is accurate, but IMO, if you rotate your tires, the
wear effect on the front inners will be reduced.  If the spot welds are still
in place, you can have the shop break them and they should be able to pull the
towers out a little to get you closer to spec, but it will never be the same
as the factory setup because of the altered geometry of the suspension.  I had
the welds broken on mine BTW.   The other thing to worry about when mucking
with the towers is that you don't want the strut to rub in the tower because
it is too close to the wall.  Hopefully someone else can comment on use of
those plates.

If you don't want the more aggressive springs, you could always go back to
stock as another option.

Good luck,
Carl P.
92 Red

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd Klosnick" <klosnickhome@earthlink.net>
To: "Carl Prochilo" <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] need more front camber 93 SHO


> Hi,
>            Thanks but for some reason my message didn't show up the first
> time I sent it to the mailing list.  I sent it again, I don't know if it is
> going to show up yet b/c I'm getting my list in digest format.  Anyway,
> here is my message and we do have Eibach springs.
>
>                 I'm new to this list.  My father has a 93 SHO with Eibach
> springs and tokico shocks front and back.  He took it to a local chain
> store to get it aligned b/c he just replaced his last set of tires in the
> front and they were worn down to the cords on the inner part of the tire on
> both sides, actually cut himself taking off the tires!
>
>               The alignment shop said that it is -1.8degrees and needs to
> go to -1.1degrees but he can't get that much adjustment out of it.  He told
> my father that the strut tops had to be modified by removing the spot welds
> and putting longer bolts in or something along those lines.
>
>                So, I called the previous owner of my fathers car and he
> said that he didnt' have problems with tires but the last alignment shop
> might have just tried to do the best they could with the camber.  However,
> my father wants it done right. I found some front camber plates from a
> website here;  http://www.prosuspension.com/sho2.htm
>
>                Does anyone have any experience with this kit or can someone
> suggest another kit?
>
> Thanks,
> Todd