Ok,here goes. I have heard many people say that you dont need a camber kit for camber correction, just use your coilovers(if you have them) to fix it. If you do that then how do you keep you corner weights correct?

 

Using the coilovers to correct Camber in part defeats what you wanted to do to begin with. That is lower the car and gain some negative Camber for the track. Camber kits are required when you want to restore the settings to factory and still be lower than stock. If you read the articles on the SPC and Ingalls sites-they give a lot of good info on the subject. Remembre that for each 1" of drop the Camber will go negative by ~0.8 degrees.

 

But what if your optimal corner weight setup has you at 2 inches higher than factory in the front and 3 inches lower in the rear? Just exagerated example of course. Then your camber is all out of whack! My main interest is to try and make the two work harmoniously. Is the only way going to be a small sacrifice on either end?

 

Just get a camber kit, get the car cornerbalanced, then set the camber to what you want. Doesn't cost that much more for the increased adjustability.

 

I agree 100% I just like to talk tech sometimes and act all smart and stuff, and besides you still gotta think about the little guys.

 

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Very much exaggerated. A small change in height results in a big change in the corner weight. It takes a big change in ride height to get any noticeable change in camber.

 

See, that is exaclty what I am trying to get at. If you have your corner weight setup good and try to adjust for camber at all you are just screwed!! Oh well, guess you just gotta do what you gotta do.
So all you folks, that say camber kits are useless and you can just adjust it by your coilovers, need to realize that you might actually have a much more negative effect by doing it that way.

 

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Not necessarily screwed. You can fix your diagonal corner weights by making an appropriate change at any of the four corners (or any combination). Combine that with whatever adjustment you need in camber, and you can many times kill two birds with one stone. My car is done that way. No camber kits, even camber side-to-side, and 50/50 diagonal weights. YMMV.

Read up on corner-weighting and it will all become obvious. There are plenty of web references with how-to info. Start at Longacreracing.com

--Andy