[Shotimes] Alignment specs?

[Leigh Smith]

Ditto what several other suggested. 0.75-1.0 neg camber for a street car,
same both sides
zero to very slight toe-in f & R, maybe 1/32" tops. I set mine at dead zero.
Toe-in has much greater impact on tire wear than camber.
The camber is very much car setup and driving style dependent.
If the outside edges start to wear, add more air pressure and or camber.
Buy a tread depth guage and use it.
Measure depth at 4 spots across each tire
Factory 1.5 -1.75 neg camber setting seems a little too agressive for most
drivers.
Of course the original Goodyears wore so fast it didn't make much difference
anyway....
Lee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Malachuk" <bmalach1@nycap.rr.com>
To: <TechSHO@topica.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:28 AM
Subject: [Shotimes] Alignment specs?


> I'll be taking my car to sears tomorrow for an alignment. Wanted to get
the
> general consensus of waht specs I should ask them to hit. Car is going in
> with all new... inner tie rods, outer tie rods, LCA's with MOOG TPR,
> Koni/intrax, adjustable camber plates up front, ingalls front caster
> adjusters, rear police mounts, tpr on the tension strut rods,GTP arms,
h-box
> brace.
>
> I have the negative 1 degree camber plate in the front right now and I was
> gon a ask them to make both sides be -1.25 with the -1 plate in there so
> that I always have -.25degrees of negative camber on the car, and with the
> camber kit I could go as far as -1.5degrees. Should I have them go more?
say
> set a base of -.50 or -.75 so that I can go as far as -2degrees of camber?
> The car will be primairyly street driven during the spring, summer, fall,
> but when it comes to road courses I can change the camber pretty quick,
just
> need to invest in some crowsfeet wrenches.
>
> What should I have them set the car at for overall. I rotate my tires
often,
> so I'm not tooo worried about scrubbing the inner edge.
>
> I have seen lots of numbers over the past 2 years on alignment, but I
wanted
> to get some discussion and consensus here before I tell them what they
need
> to hit :-)
>
> Thanks
> Bruce J Malachuk
>
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