patrick323

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So, I'm low . My exact drop I'm not sure. I just took it down as low as I can go without rubbing.

Then I experienced tire wear and found out about our cars lack of camber adjustment.

Some time passes and I see rear camber kits. I believe I even saw a company that makes a front camber kit as well.

I'm going through a new front tire every 10k or so. Everytime..excessive inner wear. Camber.. yes?

A local shop who does good alignment said that a camber kit is useless because I'm so lose to rubbing fender as it is. Adjusting my camber would be useless.


Perhaps I should just accept that if I want to look good and ride low that i gotta drop lots of money on tires very very often? I cant help but think there's SOME way to go low and sit well enough to get some life out of my tires.

Any input/experience from anyone beyond "you need camber adjustment"
?

alkoholiks

any pics of how your car sits? i just installed megan coilovers and i got a lot of negative camber im gonna get a alignment today, hopefully thye can fix it a lil bit. i dropped 2" in the rear and 1.8 in the front i think

patrick323

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patrick323

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Unless I'm wrong. Don't expect any old alignment shop to fix this issue. Unless you find some kind of performance alignment shop a normal place will only be able to adjust the toe though I think I read there can be a "little bit of play" with the front camber ( I was told no because I was so flush). I even stumbled on a site that mentioned old bushings can mimic camber tire wear but my bushings are fine.

Without knowing much about this; From what I've been told by a few different shops it's either raise it up, go smaller wheels (um, no), or go through tires.
I'm hoping someone will say differently and offer some advice on how to do so.

alkoholiks

just got back from the shop and your right the alignment didn't do nothing. i think im gonna have to get a camber kit?

patrick323

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Yes. I sort of stopped keeping up with things for a while and now when I am they have camber kits. But again, the shop i went to said that it wouldnt be possible to adjust that camber because of how flush i am with fender.

Hoping some experienced person will chime in.

My Toe, despite lots of hard bumps..has not gone far out in almost a year. My specs were:

Left front Right front
-2.2 camber -2.1 camber
7.5 caster 7.8 caster
-0.02 toe -0.08 toe
Total toe -0.11
Steer ahead 0.03

Left rear Right rear
-2.3 camber -2.6 camber
-.03 toe 0.11 toe
Total toe 0.08
Thrust angle -0.07

passnu2

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Here is a scan from when I had my IS350 so you can see what the spec allowance is. Your ride height looks pretty close to what mine was but you may be lower in the front. I was just with in spec on my TOE and had no issues with my PS2 tires and driving the heck out of the car all the time.

There is also a thread I had started and a few others had posted what there info so you may want to search and check to see if there is anything helpful in that thread. Lobux would be a good person to help you out.

passnu2

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Oh yea....where did you find front camber parts? Can you PM me or post the info I have only found rear parts for the ISx50 unless you have someone custom make parts.

patrick323

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Sorry I was wrong about the front. I had seen something about a front camber kit some guy bought as a google hit, but upon second look, it was an is300, my bad.

projectdna

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here is the 2is alignment thread:

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...for-isx50.html