Alignment after Lowering?

[Slowside]

I am slowly putting together a lowering set up for my car, I want nice tires, and I want my car to be able to hold an alignment so I dont burn through tires.


First off my first few questions are

Where do you adjust camber?
Where do you adjust caster?

Secondly on to an alignment after lowering

I have researched and have seen a few options, I could get adj upper control arms or offset lower control arm bushing?

I would like to be as cheap as possible, because I have brand new moog bushings and ball joints. I just want my lowered car to be aligned. Please help me and thanks in advance.

[ssms5411]

Re: Alignment after Lowering?

Take it to a allighnment shop, they will do all the calculations esp. if they have a computer where it tells them where to adjust it. I got a Lifetime allighnment from Firestone about 3 years ago for $120. I have had about 5-6 allighnments since then since I have QA-1 adjustable shocks , so each time I change the height I would have a allighnment. I have already got my moneys worth and will have my car until I die , so I will def. take advantage of them since there is no limit, I had one done once then changed my height and took it back in 3-4 days later, they don't give me any problems an its fun to watch them do it, the computer is bad@ss tells them to a tee what to do.

[bwkmaro]

Re: Alignment after Lowering?

just lower it and take it get aligned unless you hits **** on a daily basis you wont need one ever again

[Bonemaro]

Re: Alignment after Lowering?

Odd thing here. I dropped mine 2" over 2 years ago. I never got an alignment and my tires wear evenly.

[bwkmaro]

Re: Alignment after Lowering?

well the stock elignment on our cars has a camber "in" a few degrees so by lowering you would accually camber the tire to 0 if you dropped the car enough

[Bonemaro]

Re: Alignment after Lowering?

Yeah, I should probably get it in for an alignment one day, just to get it back to spec.

[FirebirdGT]

Re: Alignment after Lowering?

well the stock elignment on our cars has a camber "in" a few degrees so by lowering you would accually camber the tire to 0 if you dropped the car enough

Where did you get that from?


Stock camber is -0.1 to 0.9, meaning the stock spec is mostly "out" or positive camber. Lowering the car adds negative camber.

The preferrred performance camber is -1.5 to -1.0 (negative camber), which is the spec I run in, helped by being 1.5" lowered, but it does wear the inside tread.


http://autorepair.about.com/od/gloss...def_camber.htm

.

[bwkmaro]

Re: Alignment after Lowering?

im going from expirience every fourth gen. ive had a alignment rack was cambered in ive never looked up stock spec because eveyone always wonts the performance set up

[Slowside]

Re: Alignment after Lowering?

Would dropzones with kyb Gr-2 be enough for a street car on stock sway bars.