Is there camber adjustment of FC's?
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Is there camber adjustment of FC's?
Hey im thinking of getting a Tien sus kit but i wanted to know if the camber is adjustable on FC's. If not any of you guys know of good camber kits for FC's?
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Re: Is there camber adjustment of FC's?
Originally posted by RylAssassin
Hey im thinking of getting a Tien sus kit but i wanted to know if the camber is adjustable on FC's. If not any of you guys know of good camber kits for FC's?
Thanks
Hey im thinking of getting a Tien sus kit but i wanted to know if the camber is adjustable on FC's. If not any of you guys know of good camber kits for FC's?
Thanks
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A friend of mine is making me a set of "brackets" that will move the bottom of the strut inward and away from the spindle. I am doing this so I can mount 3rd gen rims on my car without using spacers on the front. The added bonus with these is that they will be slotted allowing for camber and castor adjustments. I will *try* to post up pics and dimensions to this thread in the next couple of days for anyone that may be interested in doing the same. I do not have a digital camera so I do emphasize *try*.
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I'm sure you know that camber plates are available for the front and an adjustable link is available for the back.
A friend of mine is making me a set of "brackets" that will move the bottom of the strut inward and away from the spindle. I am doing this so I can mount 3rd gen rims on my car without using spacers on the front. The added bonus with these is that they will be slotted allowing for camber and castor adjustments. I will *try* to post up pics and dimensions to this thread in the next couple of days for anyone that may be interested in doing the same. I do not have a digital camera so I do emphasize *try*.
Thanks so far guys for the info
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Originally posted by WestJaxVert
A friend of mine is making me a set of "brackets" that will move the bottom of the strut inward and away from the spindle. I am doing this so I can mount 3rd gen rims on my car without using spacers on the front. The added bonus with these is that they will be slotted allowing for camber and castor adjustments. I will *try* to post up pics and dimensions to this thread in the next couple of days for anyone that may be interested in doing the same. I do not have a digital camera so I do emphasize *try*.
A friend of mine is making me a set of "brackets" that will move the bottom of the strut inward and away from the spindle. I am doing this so I can mount 3rd gen rims on my car without using spacers on the front. The added bonus with these is that they will be slotted allowing for camber and castor adjustments. I will *try* to post up pics and dimensions to this thread in the next couple of days for anyone that may be interested in doing the same. I do not have a digital camera so I do emphasize *try*.
I don't think this is possible.  If it's able to get you the extra 20mm+ of offset, you're going to jack the suspension geometry, which will break something...
-Ted
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Ted!
your knoledgeable can you please answere this question??
Hey im thinking of getting a Tien sus kit but i wanted to know if the camber is adjustable on FC's. If not any of you guys know of good camber kits for FC's?
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Not trying to argue with you...
Originally posted by RETed
Huh?
I don't think this is possible.  If it's able to get you the extra 20mm+ of offset, you're going to jack the suspension geometry, which will break something...
-Ted
Huh?
I don't think this is possible.  If it's able to get you the extra 20mm+ of offset, you're going to jack the suspension geometry, which will break something...
-Ted
I will certainly try my best to get pics of them before and after install. I am very interested in your thoughts on these so I will send you a pm when I post it. Hopefully, some others with some knowledge will comment as well.
I am hoping that these will serve the purpose that I want them to, because I don't want spacers on my front hubs. If problems are pointed out, hey...at least they are not costing me anything.
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Are you talking about front or rear?
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get the tein front camber plates. then you can adjust the front camber.
then you need a rear camber link for the rear. almost every rx7 store sells them for around $100.
then you need a rear camber link for the rear. almost every rx7 store sells them for around $100.
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I'm more partial to the K2RD front camber plates.
There is really no nice way to adjust camber in the rear.  A rear camber adjust rod is available (from both Racing Beat and Ground Control - I like the GC one myself), but they are usually used to dial out excess negative camber with large suspension drops.
2" sounds like too much of a drop.  You might end up with too much negative camber in the rear which you cannot dial out with a rear camber adjust rod.  The car ends up scraping a lot of speed bumps being that low.
-Ted
There is really no nice way to adjust camber in the rear.  A rear camber adjust rod is available (from both Racing Beat and Ground Control - I like the GC one myself), but they are usually used to dial out excess negative camber with large suspension drops.
2" sounds like too much of a drop.  You might end up with too much negative camber in the rear which you cannot dial out with a rear camber adjust rod.  The car ends up scraping a lot of speed bumps being that low.
-Ted
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Yeah Ted thats what im afraid of. The actual drop for the Tien Flex system is 1.8" front and 1.5" back. The system has full dampening adjustment, and i believe is coil over so that gives me something to play with.
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Simple question. Simple Answer. Mazda does not have rear camber adjustments on the rear. There are kits for the rear camber adjustments like Ted said. The worst I've seen camber out of adjustment due to ride height was about 2-3 degrees. I've done countless alignments and I'm almost completely sure that adjustment rod would fix it. Most cars, when you lower the suspension, it tends to go negative. Anyone else disagree?
Note: If anyone is interested in improving your handling, setting your caster more postive will give you a better handling for the cost of your tires. Depending on how you drive, if you like curvy roads, you'll most likely wear out the edge of the inner and outter tire wear. This is very minimal but a great modification. Some BMW's have a +9 degree caster.
Note: If anyone is interested in improving your handling, setting your caster more postive will give you a better handling for the cost of your tires. Depending on how you drive, if you like curvy roads, you'll most likely wear out the edge of the inner and outter tire wear. This is very minimal but a great modification. Some BMW's have a +9 degree caster.
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