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  Jun 7 2004, 07:50 PM
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Friends,
My 1987 IROC Z/28 is a dedicated race car. Trailered to the events and not street legal. Given that I drive on Goodyear GS-CS R Compound tires what is the best setting for the camber using stock strut mount plates?? I found some third-gen specs which state -1.75 is available using the stock plates and that is the recommeded settings for Road Racing. I am headed off to buy a Camber tool to measure the settings and move mine in quite a bit. Does somebody have a quick howto on this? I think the steps are: (from observing others on other cars, but I want to know the *REAL* fbody way to do this..) 1) jack up the front end, take off both front tires. 2) put the camber tool on the rotor 3) loosen the 3 upper strut bolts and bring the strut IN at the top toward the engine (using the tool to ensure 1.75 is setup. PERMANENTLY MARK the location of the plate with paint. (paint body/paint bracket so you can line them up later without the tool). 4) loosen the 3 upper strut bolts and take it to the max, measure and mark that, re-tighten the bolts. 5) mark several places along the strut tower with measurements on both sides so that you can play with settings during test and tune. 6) lower the car 7) try it and then try the different settings until you find what you like. that is kind of MY process, is it right? what is missing? what have you guys found that works best for autocross? Brian |
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Jun 7 2004, 08:55 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 440 Joined: 25-December 03 From: Newport Beach, California Member No.: 41 |
your camber changing process is fine... but EVERY time you change your camber setting, you will need to adjust the Toe setting.. otherwise you will roast your tires.. if the Toe is way off then you will actually hear your tires squealing as you drive down the road
those Hotpart plates look like they will do the job just fine.. and the price is way better than Ground Control camber plates... you can extend the slots on stock upper mounts quite a bit... if you have a welder and some sheet metal or 1/8" plate, then you can extend the stock upper mounts as far as you want... this would be the cheapest route... You CAN get maximum negative camber with stock upper strut mounts as long as you know how to do a little metal work the thing that gets in the way is the rest of the car... you can only go so far before you have to start cutting the car up... it's not uncommon to chop on the car but you need to make sure that it is class legal for you... it's not legal in ESP i had to grind my struts in areas that were rubbing the car there are all kinds of a clearence issues with a third gen.. fourth gens are easy greasy |
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BrianChevy Third Gen Camber Settings?? Jun 7 2004, 07:50 PM
trackbird You have to adjust/measure the camber with the car... Jun 7 2004, 08:04 PM CMC #37 You are very limited with what little camber you c... Jun 7 2004, 08:10 PM axoid When my front suspension was stock the most that a... Jun 8 2004, 03:13 PM BrianChevy Thanks for all the responses, I'll give it a t... Jun 8 2004, 04:16 PM trackbird Nearly impossible.
There is a special tool that a... Jun 8 2004, 04:26 PM slowTA I think I saw that tool you need once. It bolts t... Jun 9 2004, 02:15 PM
RegaMaro I've adjusted my own alignment before and all ... Jun 9 2004, 02:34 PM |
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