What is a good performance alignment spec (Daily driver / Weekend Warrior) for my 01" Civic EX coupe lowered on Progress springs 2" drop with 16" rims and 205/50/16 tires. I'm hoping to here from racers and auto tecnitions.

 

Maybe -.5 degrees up front, with 0 degrees of camber in the rear. Unless you have something more than just stock drivetrain.

 

sorry but as soon as you said racers and auto technicians, i chuckled.

you dont really need any camber if your just going to DD it. as matt said, its more personal preference than anything. Ive personally got -1 all around.

 

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No way. Thats worse than a stock alignment.

Struts have no camber gain, so you need to put it all in statically.... run as much as you can. -2 degrees, maybe even a little more. I'm running -2.1 right now because its as far as my camber plates will go. Run 0 toe unless you like buying tires.
In the rear, around half the camber amount of the front seems to work alright, maybe a little more. I think i'm running -1.5 at the moment, with 0 toe. If you run a smidge toe in in the rear it'll track straighter, a little toe out it'll be a bit more corner responsive (this should be read: Snap happy)... I'd stick to neutral toe if at all possible until you're comfortable with it.

 

If you want good tire wear stick with zero toe, camber doesnt wear tiresa nearly as bad. I run -3 degrees in the front -1 degree in the rear with zero toe all around.

 

Since EM2s share the suspension design, if we take DC5 race cars as an example, you're right about the front setup, they run a lot of camber, but in the rear the recommendation that keeps getting passed on is to run as close to zero camber as possible. But you actually track your EM2, I don't even own mine anymore and never track'ed it, so I don't doubt that your setup works. Just wanted to mention that because maybe that's why Matt recommended zero in the rear. He was shy for the front though (as long as we're talking about full track setups).

 

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Well, if it's a dedicated daily driver, with only some track use, there's no reason to run a ton of camber on the car. Especially if you don't have the suspension components to put the tires to the test.