[Shotimes] Rear Camber Plates

[Kevin & Cheryl Airth]

Kevin:
 Rear Camber plates are available for the Taurus from Specialty Products.
http://www.specprod.com/PROD_DIR/PROD_PASSCAR.html

 Specialty has the largest selection of Taurus alignment products that I
have found. Good tech tips for each car too.

 If you have gone to that level of suspension work, I have another
suggestion. The above product along with the offset bushings are pretty much
a Mickey Mouse solution. Why not get the GM adjustable controls arms? Then
you can adjust rear toe AND camber. Remember they are somewhat
interdependent.

 One other thing. Where do you live? Some body in your area might have found
a shop they like. I found a great shop in New Orleans after getting this
suggestion from the list. Even if you don't autocross or belong to the SCCA,
these are all car guys. Go here:
http://www.scca.org/getstarted/divisions.html

 Find your region and take a look at the sponsors or ads. Almost every SCCA
section will have a suspension shop listed somewhere. If they don't, give
one of the regional officers a call or e-mail and find out where he gets his
car done. The guy I use is one of the local SCCA instructors. I pay $125 for
a real 4-wheel alignment. He also lets me hang around and ask questions as
he does the adjustments. I can then pick his brain for more info! He is hard
headed but can drive like a SOB!!

 Once you really get the SHO set up properly you will be amazed! I think all
cars have a lot more in them, it's just takes a lot of details and being
picky to get your car to that point!
.
.




 he already has the rear bushings and
> his front spot welds are drilled out.  RS was talking about rear camber
> plates, which as far as I know, aren't available from anywhere.
>
> Stemp Automotive Specialty Tools makes various alignment products.  They
> sell a set of bushings and front camber plates for the Taurus.
> They send out a pretty decent catalog that is good enough to keep in a
> binder in the garage.
>

> Strauss is a chain that we have here in NJ,  As soon as we got there they
> asked if Kevin's car had a camber kit already on it, and that they've
> done so many Taurus's before and they're hard to do.  Does any company
> even make any camber plates for the rears?  He already has the eccentric
> bushings, and as far as I know that's all there is available.  >
>
> So I finally got all of my tokicos and eibachs in with little problem.
> That
> is until I went to have the car aligned. I took it to RS Strauss, I
> didn't
> like them to start but they were the only place around that had an
> alignment
>
> machine that wasn't broken, and they refused to align it. They said,
> "what's
>
> the point of getting an alignment if you've lowered the car." I and
> another
> SHO owner were arguing with the mechanics, but I realized that it was
> fruitless and left. Has this ever happened to anyone before, have a shop
>
> refuse to align a car after putting suspension on?
>
> Kevin "Never felt the need to have a Sh*t list before but Strauss just
> started mine." Galuska