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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 04:55 AM
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I just purchased a Skunk2 Camber Kit and installed it. I'm running on stock LS rims. I have Neuspeed Sport Springs. It seems as though if I put bigger rims on, my car is going to have negative camber again.

Any advice or solutions that work?
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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 06:35 AM
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Really? How do you figure?
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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 06:37 AM
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Wheels should have no effect on camber.

Stock specs actually call for about 1* of neg camber, you should have at least some.

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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 07:30 AM
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Default Re: Adjusting Camber (AutoXer)

I'm not trying to get rid of all the negative camber. I'm just asking for wheel and tire combos that won't bring my car back into extreme neg. camber, like it was before.

The original setup from the previous owner was sport springs that dropped it. I had serious neg. cam. so I bought a Skunk2 cam kit for it. Now, my camber is where it should be. Logic tells me that getting anything higher than 16 inch rims will bring it extremely neg again because of how low the ride is.

By the way, thanks for the feedback.
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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 07:36 AM
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Default Re: Adjusting Camber (Kawaii)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Kawaii &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'm just asking for wheel and tire combos that won't bring my car back into extreme neg. camber
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AutoXer &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Wheels should have no effect on camber.
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Camber is set by the geometry of the suspension, not the wheels.

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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 08:11 AM
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Oh ok. Then, I might need to invest in a different spring/coilover and strut combo?
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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 08:33 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Kawaii &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Oh ok. Then, I might need to invest in a different spring/coilover and strut combo?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'm not really sure what you're getting at. You have a camber kit, it's set however you wanted it; just put new wheels on. Nothing will have changed.

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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 08:55 AM
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Cool. I more so want to be educated before doing something that I will regret. Everything I'm fixing on the car is b/c the the previous owner/idiot kept modding the car and messing it up. Thanks for the input Auto X.
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