So after dropping nearly 5K installing new BC Racing coilovers and refreshing EVERY bushing with superpro stuff, and adding rear diff brace and tranny brace, the shop tells me that the front left of my car is out of spec, where they weren't able to dial in anything less then 9 Deg. on the caster.

turning right full turn, causes the wheel to rub, and now when I make high speed right hand turns I can hear wheel rub touching the plastic in the wheel well.

They are recommending that I take it to a body shop that can measure everything up and figure out what exactly is bent, subframe, lower arms etc.

So I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue?
I can source a subframe pretty cheap ($150ish), but I was trying to see what the cost might be to do the swap, if anyone could help me figure that number out.

Anything else I should look out for?

Attached are some pics.

 

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I've had supposedly good alignment shops tell me they can't get the settings I want or something is out of spec and then someone who actually knows what they are doing with these cars has no problem.

Maybe get a second opinion at a good rx7 shop or race alignment shop.

 

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If they can't align it, they are probably not going to say that, and rather that it's something wrong with the car. This goes for a lot of whacky diagnosis given by shops that don't know how to work on these cars

and is there any history of an accident?

 

Ok,
Got an appointment tomrrow to check out this guy, apparently he is the man in the area.
Tredalign - Your total alignment solution

 

You may have a bound bushing. I just redid all my bushes with super pros and installed new coilovers. Although I did an initial tightening with the suspension compressed, the LF arm was bound and I couldn't get it to move even when I loosened all the bolts. I took it to a shop that race preps Miata suspensions and they easily fixed that as well as aligned to my specs.

You can check that by jacking it up. The shocks should easily push the suspension down. If not it's bound.