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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 02:05 PM
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is it just me or does the watts link center stud look bent????
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Old Nov 22, 2011 | 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by rwatson5651
Yea, it should go next to the nut.

Take to the alignment shop and let them check it out, just from what I have read in your post I think you may be ok. Pretty lucky considering what might have been.

Those wheels will look good too. Do you have the centers?
Unfortunately no, apparently they are very hard to locate. I told the wheel shop to powder coat over the center area.

Originally Posted by zaridar
is it just me or does the watts link center stud look bent????
I couldn't really get a square shot of that stud with the camera. It does look a little canted in the pictures but it seems perpendicular to the axis of the rear end. I couldn't really tell myself, if it is bent its very slight.
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Old Nov 23, 2011 | 09:35 AM
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Unfortunately the wheels are super rare Impul FZ or FZ-R (not really sure) and the center caps are all but impossible to come across. :/
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 11:13 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I took the car to a local alignment shop yesterday. He put it on the machine and gave me the initial settings because he wasn't familiar with adjusting the front suspension settings.

I'm going to attempt to attach it here. What do you guys think?

My brother had attempted to play with the camber settings when he replaced the spring/strut/damper. I think that accounts for some of the variation from left to right.

Two things that drew my attention is the front toe, although it is apparently in factory spec and the rear toe. I'm not sure what factory spec is but left toe is out by a pretty significant amount (~1/4") and the rear is toe in by a 1/16". That raises a flag to me.

Let me know if you have trouble reading it.
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Old Nov 24, 2011 | 12:00 PM
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The edit button disappeared?

Hmm well lets try this with a new post.

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