+1 to this.

Did you get the Firestone exotic lifetime alinement or just the regular one? The exotic alinement lets you pic your own specs. a .5 difference left to right is crazy high.

 

Can you elaborate why I would want -2 camber in the front and -1 in the rear? I will go back in today and get that done.

 

ohhh okay, that was the difference with exotic. The guy didn't mention exotic but I will go back in and switch it up and make that happen.

 

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Whats ur cross caster spec's say? Does ur car drift or pull in any way?

 

By increasing negative camber in the front and reducing it in the rear you can reduce the amount of understeer that you'll experience while cornering.

+1

What did you ask for? Did you just throw them the keys and say, "Hey, I need an alignment."

Whenever I go in for an alignment it a pretty long conversation about the specs I'm looking for.





You have a lot of research to do about alignments.

 

But I don't care about cornering.. its not a track car.. its a DD. I care about even tire wear and not having excessive non necessary wear. I threw them my keys and said, I just put new suspension on, I need an alignment. I figured since I have a lifetime alignment, I'd do exactly as I did, go in, give them my keys, post my alignment specs and ask for opinions on is it good for my DD applications. brfatal is suggesting changing the camber for understeer in cornering but that doesn't sound like something that is necessary for me and thats why I asked him to elaborate.

You are right though, I do need to learn about alignment and thats what these threads are helping me with slowly. I know what camber, toe, caster is but I dont know what their purposes are.

I thought camber wore the inner tires more and thats why I thought it was a bad idea

 

Not sure what the "cross caster" is because its not listed on the paper I dont think but I'll check when I go back to my car and get my binder. The car didnt pull in any direction after the alignment but it does pull right now because I raised my driver side a bit to match the passenger side perfectly as well as adjusted caster on both side using the camber plates. I rotated the coilover so it was like the picture below, instead of perpendicular with the wheel.

 

You don't have to track the car to appreciate cornering ability.

 

but I would like even tread wear so I don't have to replace my tires faster.

 

 

thanks^

 

As it was mentioned in the other thread. Camber doesn't kill your tires. Toe does.

The only reason people may be lead to believe that camber causes uneven wear is because of the hellaflush set-ups. But those guys are running -4 degrees or more. We're talking no more than -2.5 here.

 

I never said it KILLLS your tires but obviously it does some wearing if -4 wears the tires down on hellaflush setups, well, -2 will do it as well, just not as fast. and the closer I go to 0, the better. Right? or wrong? I'm not arguing, simply trying to understand why the hell -2 wouldn't wear tires worse that 0 camber. If it does, that all I need to hear. If it doesn't, outstanding! I'm all for it.

 

I know, but I don't need to appreciate cornering ability to appreciate my car. Wearing my tires out even 20% faster than I would without the -2 camber isn't something I want to do.