[s-cars] Eibach/Bilstein and Camber - What's *the* Solution?

[LL - NY]

2Bennet plates can also give you some postive caster if you don't
end up using all of the travel on camber. Positive caster gives you
better on center feel and centering and less positive camber gain
while turning, IOW, an advantage in moderation.
 Scargo

 On 9/23/05, Gabriel Caldwell <gabriel at ts.bc.ca> wrote:
>
> ECS camber plates. Some people can get away with slotting some can't.
> My alignment came to within factory specs with slotted mounts.
>
> Gabriel Caldwell
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Pollan [mailto:mark.pollan at mci.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:33 AM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: [s-cars] Eibach/Bilstein and Camber - What's *the* Solution?
>
> All Suspension Heads:
>
>
>
> Patient is a 95.5 S6 with Eibach/Bilstein set up for over 2 years now.
> In
> about 12K miles of driving the inside edges of the tires was showing
> metal.
> I am currently at a -1.3 camber on the fronts. I have further slotted
> the
> upper strut mounts and maybe have 2 or 3mm more before the mount hits
> the
> metal lip. Russ Sutherlin was most gracious and provided me with is
> determination that the Igor offset of 4mm would change my camber by
> 0.267
> degrees. That however would negate the additional camber I would gain
> by
> further slotting the upper strut mount. My last set of tires cost @
> $600
> with mounting and balancing.
>
>
>
> Short of going back to stock suspension (ain't happening), what's a guy
> to
> do to gain around 0.8 degrees of camber? After market camber plates are
> most certainly a consideration if'n the will get me where I want to be.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Mark
>
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