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Old Apr 6, 2007 | 08:41 PM
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Ok I put some Spring Tech Springs on which is supposed to be 1.8" drop, it looks lower though. I took it to have it aligned and the guy said that there is no way to adjust the rear to fix them. What do I need to fix the camber? I have looked at some of the camber kits and they are more than my springs were, what do you guys recommend?
I dont like for my car to be bowlegged.

Old Apr 6, 2007 | 08:49 PM
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You need a camber kit or a better alignment
Old Apr 6, 2007 | 08:50 PM
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Try a different shop.
Old Apr 6, 2007 | 09:23 PM
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he didnt want to even try to do the alignment
Old Apr 6, 2007 | 09:30 PM
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I know, try goin' somewhere else. There's gotta be a shop that is competent enough to do alignment on a lowered car.
Old Apr 6, 2007 | 09:45 PM
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i might check around ATL tomorrow since I will be down there, they have more knowledgeable shops
Old Apr 6, 2007 | 10:02 PM
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yeah because i've even heard of S-techs here which are way lower, being corrected with just an alignment...that shop is a joke...or full of lazy @sses
Old Apr 7, 2007 | 04:23 AM
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Originally Posted by BuddhasTC
yeah because i've even heard of S-techs here which are way lower, being corrected with just an alignment...that shop is a joke...or full of lazy @sses
correct... i got my camber fixed with an alignment and i have hotchkis springs.
Old Apr 7, 2007 | 02:26 PM
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You don't need a camber kit. Got mine aligned no problem at Tire Kingdom after putting on H-tech's which are 1.9"/1.5" drop.

Like the captain said shop around. Make sure the shop has a tech who has experience with lowered cars. Find out his name and request that guy do the alignment.
Old Apr 7, 2007 | 03:18 PM
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wow, must be nice getting off-brand springs, that is a minimum of 2.5" drop, there's no way that's less than a 2" drop in the rear.

From the amount of adjustment in the rear stock (no more than 2°) even if you tried using longer bolts it won't do enough good from the look of it, if I had to eye-ball it, I'd say you're running about 3° of negative camber in the rear of that, and your toe is off by about half a degree, you really need to get that aligned to fix the toe before you kill your tires.

Any shop can align it in the rear and get it close to stock specs, but from the looks of it, you won't be able to get back to stock specs without a camber kit, but STOCK CAMBER SPECS ARE UNNECESSARY - You'd be perfectly fine running a degree and a half or so of camber in the rear just by having them max out the adjustments, I know that's what I'm running.
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^^ Can't tell from just that photo. He's parked on grass - not level ground. And for all we know he's got 600# of amps & subwoofer in the trunk.
Old Apr 7, 2007 | 10:01 PM
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I just installed a set of S-Techs on TRD dampers last weekend-- they were nowhere near that low. The car I did had about 1 finger all around, the pics by the OP look like he's tucking that much. 2.5" drop at least.

Fake springs?
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