I was told by my friend that the front camber could be changed slightly by rotating the front shock to where the square on the rubber on top of the shock was pointing in a certain direction...now the question is where to turn it to????

 

^^^BUMP^^^

 

Yes, you can slightly change the camber by the rotation. I would assume if you have it on an alignment rack, you'd be able to see the amount of change neg/pos.
Are you doing this at home, and what type of camber adjustment are you looking for?

 

Rotate them inward so that the square marker is at the inside rear of the strut.

Rob

 

That's actually caster adjustment. Camber is not adjustable on the FC's.

 

you need these to change camber

 

My mistake, that is for CASTER adjustment only.

 

Found this-Evidently some camber adj available:

Rotate the front upper strut mount to gain your preferred settings - the mount is assymetrical, so it gains +/- half a degree of camber and/or caster. Redo your suspension bolts to take advantage of the "slop" in the mounting points - this should easily gain you half to a full degree of camber.

I am not a big fan of "crash" bolts. The MacPherson front suspension takes a lot of loads from cornering, and I had a suspicion that these bolts could not hold everything together without slipping eventually. I believe either SCC or GRM confirmed that these crash bolts do slip after a while...



-Ted

 

ok so whats the difference between caster and camber?

 

I found out what the difference is..now my question is what is the advantage of doing this--changing the CASTER?
does it help steering responce, cornering or what?

 

makes the steering feel tighter and heavier, basically better feel

 

Camber will change slightly with the stock mount turning. I just got an allignment and watched the guy try all 4 locations to give me a bit of negative camber I wanted. At one location I actually got positive camber. ick!!

I do need camber plates though.. I want to autocross so perhaps that will be my next purchase

 

More negative caster will increase the self centering tendancy of the steering wheel. Slightly better turn in, a little heavier input needed, and better feel results.

 

http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eburntoast/camber.html

 

.5 degrees negative camber and 10 or 15 degrees negative caster from rotating that. I posted that same info months ago which was published by GRM in `88.

 

thanks, now I feel more edumakated!!!
lern somthin new every day!

 

i still dont understand hwo i shoudl rotate it

 

never mind i just found it all in the fsm