auto-x and road race people, what are you doing for your alignments specs

[soclose3kgt]

Originally Posted by lawdogg

Adam's Alignment right there on 3rd street near the college, across from Van Campen.

570-326-2310

My friend Dave with the white STi recommended it. It's $120 apparently but the guy really knows what he's doing. I asked about the AWS and he scoffed at me saying it's been around for a while - so hopefully he's as good as he sounds. I can let you know how it goes next week if you want.

Thank you for the #, im definitely going to give them a ring. Yea please let me know how it goes, i pretty much killed one of my tires with my shotty alignment.

[leet]

Originally Posted by lawdogg

I just made an appointment to have the car aligned on Friday.

I asked for -1.5 front / -1.0 rear camber, 0 toe front & back.

I have stock ECS struts, unplugged, Intrax springs, F&R strut tower bars, and adj. rear control arms. I will be driving the car in my first SOLO II events this summer and am hoping this will be a good starting point for alignment.

The car has Enkei RP0-1 18x9 rims, +43mm offset (I believe), 21.1lbs with 245/40/18 Falken Aziens RT-615's. I'm hoping to get at least 2 seasons out of them.

I wouldn't bother with the rear camber for autox personally

[lawdogg]

Originally Posted by leet

I wouldn't bother with the rear camber for autox personally

Hmm. Well I guess I'll try it and see how it goes. If nothing else I'll do it for vanity and even tire wear, then. The car sits up too high in the back with my current 0 to +something degree camber.

[lawdogg]

Got the car back on Friday, the guy said he was able to get perfectly -1.5 front and -1.0 rear with no toe. I can't believe how much more stable it feels on the road - turns when I want it to, doesn't track in the grooves as much, it's like a whole new car. I can't wait to autoX it ... t-minus three weeks!

[wraith]

If you guys get larger sway bars, you dont need as much of a spring to keep the car level in the turns. I have K-sports and the car is actually quite comfortable and with the saners, the body roll is almost insignificant. Out on the highway, I can do slaloms aroundslower traffic at triple digits and the car is perfectly controllable. It feels like a go-kart. These cars love alot of camber, but since I run it on the street, I have it set to -.5 in the front to counter the wear I get on the front edge of the tire and also to help them last a long time. I left the back at 0. I have to recommend that you guys who go for better pads up front, put the same compound in the back. Under hard braking and emergency maneuvers, the stock rear pads will lock up first which can cause the rear to swing around.

[lawdogg]

Thanks wraith. I actually have been waiting for the saner sway bars to come back in stock at 3SX but apparently they are having problems getting any.

[boardFreak5]

Awesome thread thanks for bumping this guys.


I'm supposed to go auto-xing in 2 weeks, but i have lots to do before then.

David

This is going to be a FUN Summer.

[3KGTCRUISER]

Bump for a good thread!

FYI Firestone has lifetime alignments for like $140 or so.

I'm running K-sports with zero spring preload. Right now I've got a lot of sus. tuning to do, but I'll keep posting in this thread, if for no other reason then to record my findings lol

Right now I'm running zero toe and camber everywhere. I'm trying to set some baseline with the first points event being this weekend. Even though I'm in SM with street tires, I'm hoping to be extremely competitive by the end of the season. Luckily the guy that won last year is an excellent racer, from what I've seen online, so I'll have good competition.

Anyways, could everyone post their ride height and corner weights also? I measure from the ground to the bottom of the fender above the tire with me in the car (ok I don't measure, but a friend does it!) I'm trying to get a good weight balance, but I don't have scales, so heights are all I have to go by.

Here's a pic from last weekend's test and tune



-Doug