[s-cars] Calling All Suspension and Alignment Junkies - Front CamberSetting

[Fred Munro]

Mark;

The movement you can get out of extending the slots is limited. The top
mount has an inner rim that contacts the sides of the opening in the strut
tower, so it will only move so much no matter how much you extend the slots.

Once you lower the car, you pretty well need camber plates or Igor's mod to
get the camber near spec.


HTH

Fred Munro
'94 S4


-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Mark Pollan
Sent: February 19, 2005 1:10 PM
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: [s-cars] Calling All Suspension and Alignment Junkies - Front
CamberSetting


The Patient is a 95.5 S6 with Bilstein/Eibach sport kit.  I just got my car
aligned and the best they could do on the front camber is -1.5 on both
sides.  I have what looks like another 1/4 “ of potential movement if I
grind out the slots in the upper mounts a tad more.  The alignment sheet
from the shop is showing a range of -0.3 to -1.3 as being spec.  Bentley is
showing -0.15 to -0.75 as being spec.  Anybody want to venture a guess as to
the correct spec?  I am hoping to get in spec with just a further extension
of the slots.  I think this is doable with a -1.3 spec but not if spec is
-0.75.  Does anybody know how strut mount movement correlates to camber
degrees?  Meaning, if I get another ¼” movement, what may I expect my camber
to be given a current -1.5.  Tires are just too damn expensive for my piggy
bank to run excessive negative camber and I would prefer not to go the Igor
frankenmount route but




Best regards,



Mark

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