2g FWD camber kit

[jay_95talon]

Do they make a camber kit for a 2g FWD, Because I took my car to a tire place and they said there was none so they shimmed my control arms. I need something because right now im going through tires like nothing or is shimming the control arms just as good?

 

[jtmcinder]

It's good to specify front vs rear in a question, but since you said "shimmed," I'll assume you mean the rear. Shimming is just the technical term for the DIY/Home-Depot rear camber kit. Yes, there are fancy, adjustable kits, but shimming is fine.

- Jtoby

ps. what are your front and rear toe settings? toe is what eats tires, not camber.

pps. searching is a good habit ... this was posted today: http://www.ingallseng.com/cars/mitsubshi.html

 

[jay_95talon]

Well I think it is camber because first off you can see it and secondly its eating the insides down to nothing and the outsides have good tred. Actually I have some nasty camber in the front and the rear but the fronts not as bad. Oh and thanks for the link, but those are more then I expected.

 

[jtmcinder]

But do you know what your toe values are?

You see, it's a common misconception that camber causes inside-edge wear. Toe is the real killer of tires. When you also have lots of negative camber, the parts of your tires that get eaten the most are the inside edges, but the root cause of the wear is not the camber. I ran for two years with more than 2 degrees of rear camber and the inside edges wore the same as the outsides. The key is that I ran zero rear toe.

Please note that spec for an AWD 2G is 1/16 rear toe in; at least, that's the middle of the specified range and most alignment techs shoot for the middle. (I'm not sure what spec is for a FWD, but I'm sure that it's some toe in, maybe even more than an AWD.) So it's not enough to have your lowered car aligned. You need to tell them to set the front and rear toe to zero.

- Jtoby

 

[2GeNTSi]

I just had my alignment done a couple of weeks ago. I already bout a rear camber kit from RRE but haven't installed it yet because my bros car is in the garage getting rebuilt and I don't like working outside. I think my rear camber was at -3.2 or something along that, I believe my toe is fine for now.

 

[jtmcinder]

edit: I give up

- Jtoby

 

[Bullitt]

Steps to fix the problem:
1. Find out spec toe-in.
2. Go to firestone (or whatever it may be)
3. Ask them to tell you what your toe is.
4. Wait for answer
5. Find out answer. If answer is not within spec, ask them to change it to whatever spec is.

Who cares if it doesnt fix your problem, you should have it checked anyway any time you're in.

Brett

ps - Mr. Mordkoff (jtmcinder) is a professor. Never mind what of, it doesnt matter, you should always listen to your teachers.