I am planning on lowering my RX-7 in the next couple of weeks, and I was wondering whether I'm going to need a camber kit. I know that lowering the car will affect the camber, and I don't want bad tire wear due to a larger amount of negative camber. I did a search on here and couldn't find anything about camber kits, and I couldn't find any camber kits for 2nd gens anywhere... except for cheap eBay/OBX ones.

Can anybody point me in the right direction here...?

 

http://www.mazdatrix.com

Yes, lowering will effect camber. After about 1/2", it becomes an issue. The rear wheels especially.

 

Which camber part should I be looking at...? And I didn't realize it would be so expensive... dammit.

 

I lowerd the front 3/4" and the rear 1". The front i was able to adjust by turning the strut mount, but the rear i had to by a camber adjuster link from mazda trix cus there is no way to adjust it without one. IF you lowered the front more then 3/4", i would imagine you would have to get some camber plates.

Steve

 

Don't get the camber arm. AWR racing or Mazdatrix sells the camber adjusters which will allow for independent adjustment for each corner in the rear. It's a little more expensive but you won't have deviation in camber between both sides.

http://www.awrracing.com/images/eprrcamadlg.jpg

Those suckers.

 

And these will come with all instructions and all that good stuff to help me install them onto the car...?

And so everybody knows, I'm lowering the car with Tanabe Sustec GF210 springs that are going to lower the car 1.5" front and rear.

 

im curious, when lowering our cars, does it have an effect on the DTTS? -alex

 

Thank you for jacking my thread...

 

I don't know, I think that is a very important question to answer if sombody is considering lowering their car.

I do belive it will, being that the tow is adjusted based on how much load (compression) the rear wheels are under. Based on that, I wouldn't take any chances and just get the toe eliminators. Besides, the DTSS setup is quite bad to have, being that you want your rear suspension geometry to stay as close to one setting as possible, especially when cornering hard i.e. racing, and the DTSS eliminates this as a possibility, and makes the car very unpredictible while racing it or driving hard.

So, now that that is out of the way, I hope that I have effectively jacked your thread, and maybe answered some questions that you wouldn't have even thought to ask. Keep an open mind to others input, and you might just learn something.

 

By telling me that you've "effectively" jacked my thread, you've proven that your just as ignorant as I am, the only thing is that I don't have any reason to know about the DTSS... I'm concerned about camber kit, or negative camber eliminators. I do have an open mind, I just want my questions to be answered. Introducing more questions only takes away from what I was trying to get answered. If he had a question, there's a button made for that, it's called "Make Thread."

 

you just killed the thread...

 

^^ agreed..

 

there are also these things for front camber, although you will search all day trying to find someone who has used them. http://www.tirerack.com/suspension/S...track&x=68&y=5

be our guinea pig and let us know how they are

 

Nobody's really used those...? They're Eibach... they can't be that bad. Is there a reason that nobody's used them before.

And thank you Gildardo and mycarisolderthanme... thank you for wasting more space on my thread. I just want to get some questions answered, that's kind of the point of these forums, is it not? I don't need people coming onto my thread asking different questions or telling me that I "killed a thread." I've seen plenty of flame wars on plenty of forums, and I don't intend on starting one here. That just lowers my credibility on this site, and everybody else's that partakes in the flaming.

PLEASE, IF YOU DON'T HAVE SOMETHING TO HELP ME ANSWER MY QUESTIONS, DON'T POST IT ON HERE. Thank you.

 

Yes Sir, Moderator Sir!

oh wait....your not a mod...

 

Are you all kidding me... no, I'm not a moderator, but this is my thread. If you notice, I am the one that started the thread. I am the one that asked the original question in the thread, so I think I should have some say in the thread. All I want is for my questions to be answered, not to see all this other crap from people that aren't trying to help me clutter up my thread.

 

Last I checked your question was answered a long time ago. But since you seem to have missed it I'll repeat. Yes, you need camber correction if you lower your car. Best option are the camber adjusters Mazdatrix sells. Now please get over yourself.

 

You're right, somebody did answer my question, my original question. I also asked another question about a camber kit that was suggested:

This question on the other hand was not answered yet, and the chances of it now getting answered are slim, because a lot of people, obviously like you, don't read entire threads before they decide to post. I understand that people skim through threads to get the main point of the thread, but when you're going to try and make somebody look like an ***, you should at least be a little more thorough about it.

Now, I'm not one to talk down to people, I think it's pointless, especially when I don't know the person personally. But being told that I need to get over myself...? Why do I need to do this again? I have not once stated anything that's not true. There was a question of mine that was not answered. If someone has an answer to my question, it would be greatly appreciated, but at this point it seems that I'm going to have to make a completely different thread about it, because nothing on here happens except for people coming to pick apart every word I say.

 

They're just crash bolts. They are cheaper than camber plates for the front, but most people I know with them have trouble keeping them at one setting... ie, they slip.

 

Thank you Traivs R. So would you say that the cheaper price isn't worth it for the quality that you get with them...?