I took the widebody in last week to finally get it aligned after all of the suspension, brake and wheel upgrades. Installed on the car is the big brake kit, front and rear, 9X15" wheels front, 10X15" rear, Eibach black prokit springs, St sway bars, f/r, RB/Mazdacomp adjustable tension rods and LCAs and ReSpeed camber plates.

The alignment guy was great to work with, they set up race cars, mostly for circle dirt tracks. I took the FSM in with to show him the specs, which weren't in the computer of course.

So here's the problem. He adjusted the camber plates as far as he could and both sides are at -2.5. He looked at the adjustment range on the LCAs and said even the 3/4" he could move them probably wouldn't get the camber back to street specs. With the camber so far out, his machine wouldn't even register the caster, go figure.

The car does drive straight down the road now, before it acted like I was driving drunk, lol. But it will suffer increased tire wear and these tires were imported from Japan and this particular model is not sold in the US. In a couple weeks he gets a new alignment machine in and told me to come back then, hopefully he can get a better read on caster, camber and toe.

So if anyone has any suggestions as to what I can change to help get the alignment back to street specs, I'm all ears.

Thanks,

Scott.

I had an idea that maybe I installed the camber plates backwards. Since I can't figure out how to post pics here, I have them posted over at the club.

camber plates

Trochoid-

The camber plates appear to be installed correctly, if my memory still serves me. I'm wondering if the RB control arms are longer than stock, even when adjusted to their shortest dimension? I shot Billy a PM to let him know about your question, so he will probably be along shortly.

Answered on the other forum.

-billy