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

[Gabriel Caldwell]

The strut insert mount does not have a bonded rubber piece like stock.

 

Gabriel Caldwell



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From: LL - NY [mailto:larrycleung at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:19 PM
To: Gabriel Caldwell
Cc: Mark Pollan; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Eibach/Bilstein and Camber - What's *the*
Solution?

 

I'm confused, what does Solid mean. It's three pieces. The mount to the

tower, the sliding plate and the actual strut mount. The plate can be
moved

in two planes by rotation, so the sliders can be oriented to slide both
laterally,

longitudinally and in between. I've been considering doing the Igor mod
to them

to gain a bit more caster as other lister's have done. Just need time,
lots of it. 

 

LL - NY

 

On 9/23/05, Gabriel Caldwell <gabriel at ts.bc.ca> wrote: 

IIRC the mounts are also solid, so be warned if you go this route.

 

Gabriel Caldwell 

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From: LL - NY [mailto: larrycleung at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:54 AM 
To: Gabriel Caldwell
Cc: Mark Pollan; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Eibach/Bilstein and Camber - What's *the*
Solution?

 

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
<mailto: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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