I had originally put this in Bay Area forums, but will also seek advice here as well.

ok, so i bought a used set of jdm v8 suspension and went to Auto Innovations to get an alignment. There were able to get 2 of the 3 requested specs I wanted, but had trouble with the rear camber.

Aegon(tom) who I had bought the v8 from got it aligned at a race shop in texas. The alignment dude was able to get -1.7 camber in the rears by loosening the bolts in the rear and using the weight of the car to get that amount of neg camber

Orlando at AI said he's not heard of anyone doing that. Needless to say the rears were left as is.

my set up is like this:

-1.3 front camber (L & R)
-1.2 rear camber (left)
-1.7 rear camber (right)
0 toe all around

AI said the couldnt fix it without camber bolts and couldn't do the rears only...they'd have to do all four again...so that's $100

Is there anyplace that can bring it to -1 rear camber without using camber bolts? Also, what are the odds that this thing really works? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=2914814125

I'm thinking I may just need to suck it up, get the camber bolts and make a second visit to AI.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it.

TIA,

Ryan

 

An alignment place in San Francisco was able to get my car aligned with more than 1 degree of negative camber in the rear. There shouldn't be any reason why they can't just do the rears for you. Call Tire Broker in San Francisco and ask for Jojo. He has done many people's alignment, including Hiero's. Rear camber bolts are cheap, I would just pick them up anyways.

 

And nice to see another Ryan on the forums.

 

Just called Tire Broker and spoke to Jojo...seems like a nice guy. But he too said that they had to do all 4 and couldn't just do the rears. He dove into some technical jargon about centerlines and that the centerline is based from the rears so they'd have to do the front as well.

I don't know all the technicalities with alignments but it sounds like no one can do ONLY rear alignment.