Had alignment done today after installing Comptech springs

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Old Sep 23, 2002 | 07:30 PM
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Had alignment done today after installing Comptech springs

My front left toe was -0.34 and is now -0.01. Front right toe was -0.29 and is now 0.01. How bad is that? Only camber problem I have is the rear left at -1.1 and rear right at -1.3. Anyone have similar camber in the back? The rear right is the only thing that worries me and I hope I don't need a camber kit because of it. Anyways, I was shocked at how bad my front toe was.
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 12:26 AM
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Specs for front toe == 0 +/= 2mm (+/- 1/16 in)


So, that's about +/- .06 to .08 depending on which service manual spec you look at (metric or English)

Toe == fine.

The front camber range is: 0 +/- 1.0
The rear camber range is: 0.5 +/- 1.0

The negative camber is in range and will help handling and if you never hit a turn, might increase inside tire wear...
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 12:29 AM
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toe was off enough to correct..rear camber won't cause signif damage
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 01:30 AM
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Originally posted by quikcls
toe was off enough to correct..rear camber won't cause signif damage
OH HOW WRONG YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!
Here is a pic of my stocks with only 24K miles on them. I lowered my car with about 10K on them. So this is after only 14K miles!!! They were GONE!!!!!! Get a rear camber kit!!!!!!!! I did, and my tires are wearing like they should be!!! And now that I have the Toyo's, NO WAY am I gonna have that much negative camber!!! Just my suggestion!!!!



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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 01:39 AM
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Aztec:

I've seen two cars with Comptech springs and no camber kits and they were fine (pretty even tire wear). I never got to look at a third, but I believe the wear was fine (but all of the people "hit" a variety of roads including mountains twisties...)

I'd like to know what your camber was before you added the kit with your Neuspeed springs...

BTW, how much are you dropped and what percent of “twisty” driving are you doing?

BTW2 – the +/-1.5 max degrees (for rear camber) is the spec…
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Old Sep 24, 2002 | 01:45 AM
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Aztec:

I've seen two cars with Comptech springs and no camber kits and they were fine (pretty even tire wear). I never got to look at a third, but I believe the wear was fine (but all of the people "hit" a variety of roads including mountains twisties...)

I'd like to know what your camber was before you added the kit with your Neuspeed springs...

BTW, how much are you dropped and what percent of “twisty” driving are you doing?

BTW2 – the +/-1.5 max degrees (for rear camber) is the spec…
Eric,

Yeah, all the Sacto guys have the comptech springs and NO issues with alignment. Since I have the Neuspeeds, my drop is a lot lower. I never had the camber measured before I got the camber kit. As you can see by the tires, it was WAY negative!!! If you looked at my car from the back, you could SEE the tires were looking like / \ !!!! I am sure it was about -2. I did do some twistie driving, but not enough to do that. Maybe once a month. I drove the car a lot back then, because it was my only car. I am sorry that I didn't have the camber measurements from before. If I had to guess, I would say that one was -2 and the other was -1.8.
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