Just got an alignment after getting my new rims and dropping the coilovers a bit more. The fronts are -1 and -1.5 degrees. Do I need a front camber kit or will it be not too bad wear?

The rears are -2.5 and -3 degrees. You think I need to add the $15 washers to fix the rear camber? Again, I'm very lazy and don't really want to touch my car anymore, so I'd rather avoid getting it if I didn't really need it.

Discount Tire said they could install front camber kit for 100 parts and labor using Specialty Products Company's front camber kits (20 bucks a side for the part).

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2004 WRX - WR Blue Pearl
1997 Eclipse GS - Royal Sapphire Pearl

The front might be fine but the back will surely need the camber fixed. If not then get used to buying tires on a regular basis. It doesn't take a big drop in the back to screw up the camber a good bit so just get the back fixed if anything. Im not sure but you might even have to get the car aligned again. remember I said might.

dfresh

will post more pics when front is painted

Correction: it's -1.7 in front, not -1.5. Are you sure about the rears being more important? I've heard the front camber is more important because you are turning with those wheels, and the weight of the engine/tranny also wears em out faster?

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2004 WRX - WR Blue Pearl
1997 Eclipse GS - Royal Sapphire Pearl

front is within spec, i think... my fronts are -2.4 and -2.3, i dunno what my rear are, but i have no abnormal wear on the fronts, just make sure that your "toe" is zeroed out...

i wud hookup the 15dolla rear mod, and call it a day

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now: 20g, portfueler, bpu+++ (track/dyno times tbd...)

i farted on your wiki

my front has never been bad. I had about -2 degrees in the rear b4 and I went thru the tires. You definetely need to do something for the rear.

I had -1.7 in the front and the guy at Goodyear said it was w/ in spec. Three months later the inside of my tire was showing wire. Oh and they were brand new tires when I got the alignment.

The fronts between 0 and -1 are in spec, and rears up to -2 are in spec. It seems like everyone is telling me different different things. Maybe I will just do the rears since it's cheap and pretty simple to do right? How long will it take to do myself?

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2004 WRX - WR Blue Pearl
1997 Eclipse GS - Royal Sapphire Pearl

welp, afer she is up in the air, and u got the wheels off, shouldnt take more than 10 minutes a side, unless u have a problem w/the washers fallin on u......

good luck

03 srt-4 13.130@112.47mph (n2o, stock turbo, 10/2003)
now: 20g, portfueler, bpu+++ (track/dyno times tbd...)

i farted on your wiki

>I had -1.7 in the front and the guy at Goodyear said it was
>w/ in spec. Three months later the inside of my tire was
>showing wire. Oh and they were brand new tires when I got
>the alignment.




well you see, even though your car might be close to within spec as far as all alignment conditions go, you can still often times experience a greatly increased amount of odd tire wear. this is do to the fact that with your lowered springs, you have less travel with an increased spring rate. this makes it so every bump you go over, every change in shock position, your car's weight is putting more pressure down onto the tire than with a gigantic lower rate stock spring. i might have confused some things but i think you know what i mean, word.

You really need kits on both front and rear, for proper camber. Although the fronts may not show an extreme amount of tire wear, it can be better with a kit. You are right about stock specs. Front camber specs are around 0 to -1 degree. Rear stock camber specs call for around -.5 to around -1.5, or -1.75 max

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-2000 Honda CR-V(daily)

Yeah, i'd probably do a nice camber adjustment, or you'll end up like me...(see Another victim of rear camber...) and look at my tires. That took less than 3 months.



Jon

1997 Eclipse RS

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