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Old Oct 15, 2012 | 10:54 AM
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I need to get one soon... what is the stock alignment for an SS/TC? autox? track?

is camber adjustable on these cars at all stock? I would imagine i should run as much as i can get right? and how much toe? zero or a hair of toe out?
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Old Oct 15, 2012 | 12:41 PM
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Camber isn't really adjustable stock, unless you grind the holes in the struts. You'll have to use camber bolts to adjust it. You can probably happily get away with zero toe. For the very aggressive, I would toe it out, but this will wear the tires quicker. -.2 degrees per wheels on an 18" wheel will get you 1/16 total toe out.

For camber? As much as you can get. I run -2.3*. Could probably use more, but this is sort of a compromise.

Forget about rear settings. They can't easily be adjusted.
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Old Oct 15, 2012 | 12:41 PM
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What is the main function of your car?

For autox I run -2* camber up front with *.5 toe out for better turn in. Rear specs are stock.

And no camber is not adjustable stock, you need either eccentric bolts or the "strut mod" and drill out the top strut to knuckle bolt hole to gain negative camber. For the rear you need to shim to hubs, I would not do this though as I don't think the rear needs camber.

edit: sorry wang basically covered everything.
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Old Oct 15, 2012 | 01:03 PM
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the car is my daily driver but i tend to maintain my cruising speed thru corners... It looks as tho the pedders added a little bit of neg camber. so basically just get the toe zero'd out?
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Old Oct 15, 2012 | 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by RoadconeTuning
the car is my daily driver but i tend to maintain my cruising speed thru corners... It looks as tho the pedders added a little bit of neg camber. so basically just get the toe zero'd out?
If you don't care about sticking to DStock rules, which you don't, given the Pedders, I would just get a set of camber bolts, and at least give yourself a little more there. You can keep it more mild, like -1.5.
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Old Oct 19, 2012 | 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by RoadconeTuning
the car is my daily driver but i tend to maintain my cruising speed thru corners... It looks as tho the pedders added a little bit of neg camber. so basically just get the toe zero'd out?
I ended up with -0.5 on the back with my Pedders coilovers. I thought you had a set too for some reason.
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Old Oct 19, 2012 | 10:18 AM
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Wait what? We have a torsion beam rear. No matter how low you go it shouldn't add negative camber
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Old Oct 19, 2012 | 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by noorjariri
Wait what? We have a torsion beam rear. No matter how low you go it shouldn't add negative camber

You can't. It sits wherever it came from the factory.
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