[s-cars] Suspension Upgrade

[Keith Maddock]

Evan Desjardins <evan.desjardins at gmail.com> wrote:
> S-Fiends,
> 
> I also need to purchase
> the camber plates to correct the alignment for $239.95.

While you are $liding down the $lippery $lope, I highly recommend
spending a bit extra and getting the 2Bennet Camber/Caster plates
instead.
http://www.2bennett.com/body_type44suspension.html

I had the ECS correction plates in my 93 S4 and they were better than
nothing, but still did not leave much flexibility to dial in the
alignment to a good setting.
As a result, with 17" rims and summer tires, the steering was quite
darty especially on rutted roads.  (gotta love those 10+-axle, 250,000
lb trucks they can drive here in Michigan!).

I bought my 95.5 S6 avant with these 2Bennet plates already installed,
and the difference (even with the exact same wheels/tires) is
phenomenal, and    Other listers have installed these at a 90 degree
angle so that they are caster/camber plates, and have reported
excellent results.

The benefit is adding caster so you don't have to run a lot of static
camber in order to get good cornering performance.  This also helps
improve the tire wear pattern.

w/o plates: wear out the inside of your tires while driving straight
w/ ECS plates: wear out the outside of your tires if you corner agressively
w/ camber/caster plates; more even wear.


Cheers,
Keith