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Ran into fellow rotarheads at 5th gear motorspors in Lewisville

Old Jun 12, 2005 | 11:02 AM
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Ran into fellow rotarheads at 5th gear motorspors in Lewisville

Met a nice couple when I was having the car corner balanced and aligned at 5th gear motorsports.

The corner balance was pretty close to 50/50 so we left it at that. It was toward the end of the day and they worked me into their schedule. The car weighed in at 2800lbs. NOT bad for a touring with the bigger brakes and wheels. I was alittle surprised.

I came in with the alignment settings I wanted but there must have been some miscommunication from the son to the father. The father ended up dialing in -2.9 degrees camber up front and -3.0 in the rear!!

The car feels great but I really noticed it when I threw it around the corner! HAHAHAHA too fun. Anyways, that's way to much camber for me, and the tires won't last that long at that setting....

Anyways, nice shop with a bunch of car enthusiast there.

Also nice running into fellow rotary nutz and a super nice couple too(*I forgot your names already)...anyways good meetin you guys.

* for those of you interest in corner balancing and alignment
www.fifthgear.biz

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Old Jun 12, 2005 | 06:34 PM
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Nice find, someone that does corner balancing other than Bobby $$$ Archers, and close to home.

Thanks for the link.
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Old Jun 12, 2005 | 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by cpa7man
Nice find, someone that does corner balancing other than Bobby $$$ Archers, and close to home.
As soon as my scales get here I'll be able to do the former, but unless you move south I'll never fulfill the latter.
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Old Jun 14, 2005 | 06:00 PM
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Hey, yea that me and my girlfriend(Curtis and Kelly), Nice to meet you too, your car is beutiful. And that place does do some pretty good work, it seems like they specialize in porsche's mostly but they really know their stuff and the owners are really cool.
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Old Jun 14, 2005 | 09:39 PM
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hey curtis! nice meeting ya guys. drop me a line if your ever heading out to dallas!

anyways I need to head back up there sometime to readjust the camber!
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