do I have offset bushings?

[everbruin]

I'll be aligning my 95 talon awd for the first time this wkend at a local race shop. Can I deduce whether I have offset upper control arm bushings if the adjustable camber range is beyond stock?

If I do have them, what negative camber can I typically get?

Prior owner said the car has a camber kit (to address lowering?) but I don't know what that means, nor whether it's at front and/or rear.

Fedja Jeleskovic said "Another option that is very nice (for both camber and caster) is to use 97+ lower control arms in the front".

How much gain would such a swap give?

Thanks!
An.

 

[jtmcinder]

There are two types of adjustable front camber kits: offset bushings and adjustable pivots. You can tell if you have adjustable pivots very easily from just looking at them; you don't even have to take the wheel off. It's actually quite difficult to tell if you have offset bushings unless you not only remove the wheel, but actually unbolt the pivots and swing the arm out.

Rear adjustable brackets are just as easy to see (again, with the wheel still on the car) as fronts. I've never heard of offsets for the upper rears. The more popular second option in the rear is a specer (washers) between the bracket and the body.

I don't know how much longer 97+ lower LCAs are than 95s, so I can't help on this.

- Jtoby

ps. if you're going to Comptech near False Creek (which I would recommend), tell them that the crazy American with the bald tires on his DSM actually made it back to Pennsylvania in one piece.

 

[everbruin]

please clarify to a layman where/what i should look for. thanks!

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You can tell if you have adjustable pivots very easily from just looking at them; you don't even have to take the wheel off.
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Rear adjustable brackets are just as easy to see (again, with the wheel still on the car) as fronts.

 

[jtmcinder]

Adjustable front pivots usually have a bolt sticking straight down that you tighten when you have them where you want them. Stock pivots don't.

Adjustable rear brackets have an eccentric cam. Stock brackets have just a plain bolt and nut.

- Jtoby