Allignment???

[whiteice2x]

Hey quick question wanted to ask. Now i have a 95' GSX and my car is lowered about 2.75-3". Now i need an allignment, but the ppl up at NTB tell me its not really possible to adjust it all. I have a front and rear camber kit on some coils...Can the allignment be done or r they just bullsh*ting me and if it was possible would they mess with my adjustment settings on the camber or would they just do the specs off of the machine without removing the tires and touching the control arms and etc...

 

[igopoopy]

you have front and rear camber kits so they are just stupid

 

[cuttheduck]

Only toe can be adjusted stock.
A "camber kit" can allow you to change it though I don't know if most places would do all that for you. Just get a decent camber setting yourself and then have toe adjusted.

 

[DG-FNR]

Most big chain alignment shops are not set up very well to deal with modified cars.

Making money on alignments is very much a turnover deal - get it on the rack, get it done, get it out the door. Modern alignment equipment has the equivelent of the shop manual built into it, and the display the technician deals with has pretty colored bars and other graphics designed to help set the car to factory specs as soon as possible.

As soon as the car deviates from the factory setup though, the information in the alignment computer is no longer as correct as it was, and this will cause confusion amongst the techs (alignment guys are often junior)

Even worse is trying to specify an alignment setup different from what the computer says it should be. Many big chains wil flat out refuse to do anything other than what the factory specs are.

You will be better off finding a shop that is more performance-oriented or at the very least, smaller. You'll pay more than at a big chain, but the tech is more likely to understand what an alignment actually does and work with you.

Our shop has a rack specifically to do race cars.

If you can't find somebody, at the very least get the chain shop to fix the toe. You want this set to factory specs anyway, and it is toe, not camber, that eats tires.

DG