[s-cars] RE: Suspension settings after lowering

[Rich Assarabowski]

One more thing, car has 17x8 wheels with 245/40's.

-- Rich


>I'm about to get my '93 S4 aligned, it's had the Bilsteins / H&R
29921's put it, lowered car by about 1.25 inches >all around.  I'm
wondering if anyone has any recommendations on suspension settings other
than what the manual
>calls for.  For camber, manual calls for F/R settings of -.83/-.25 deg.
Bob Rossato had his done a couple of
>years ago with F/R of -1.0/-.7 deg.  This was without camber plates but
with elongated holes.  I have ECS camber
>plates, so I'm thinking of -.9 for the front.

>Any benefit to increasing the negative camber on the rears (from manual
setting of -.25 to as much as -.7 deg?
>His tech recommended more negative camber in the rear to close match
the more negative camber on the front.  Car
>will be street use, tire wear is important, but wouldn't mind tweaking
the factory settings for better handling.