Hello,

Never really corrected my negative camber after lowering my car but am getting tired of un-even tire wear and instability at highway speeds. So....

- I'm looking for a good camber correction kit. Any suggestions? I have a '88'CRX. That's been lowered maybe 1.5" - 1.75" (not really sure)

- How do I properly measure the ride height anyway?

- Does anyone know what the stock height is for the front and back? (for reference)

Thanks in advance!

 

Throw on the ingalls camber kit and go get an allignment.

 

Yes, I was considering a "INGALLS" kit but they have different ones depending on how much you lowered your vehicle. How do I know how much I lowered it? It's been a really long time since I lowered it and I forgot how much I lowered it by...

thanks...

 

They give you a range, not an exact value. Most companies make a kit for mild drops and another for stupid drops. You want the mild drop. You don't want to bring the camber back to zero. The mild camber kit will bring you back close enough to zero that you wont have any problems. Some negative camber is good for cornering.

At a 1.5 inch drop, you fine just getting the toe aligned and leaving the camber alone. Does your car have a solid rear axle or double wishbone suspension? Double wishbone is much more tolerant to negative camber.

 

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Never really corrected my negative camber after lowering my car but am getting tired of un-even tire wear and instability at highway speeds. So....

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getting an alignment would have solved all that, without getting a camber kit.

 

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getting an alignment would have solved all that, without getting a camber kit.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Not necessarily true, all the places I have taken my car to say that the camber is way out of spec. and that the camber needs to be corrected first even if they just correct the toe in/out. I was originally thinking what you are saying too.

So I need to have the camber corrected at least to some extent. I know that having some negative camber helps in lower speed turns but can be less forgiving in higher speed turns and maneuvors.

Does anyone know how to determine how much my car has been lowered? Do you measure from the ground up the middle of the outside of the wheel to where the fender meets this line? I also need a referrence point of a stock '88' crx si.

thanks again...

 

no really. all you needed was a toe alignment. thats what eats tires on our cars.

because you didnt get it done, you have no other experience. so you really cant say.

ive got plenty of tires that show no "camber" wear while i was lowered, no camber kit. i had an alignment sponsorship, got it done regularly. and ive got tires with very bad toe set at stock ride height that have bad "camber" wear. plenty of other ppl have the same experience.

really.

 

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My car has a double wishbone suspension/independent rear suspension. Aren't the '88' and newer civics all have independent rear suspensions?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Tyson &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">no really. all you needed was a toe alignment. thats what eats tires on our cars.

because you didnt get it done, you have no other experience. so you really cant say.

ive got plenty of tires that show no "camber" wear while i was lowered, no camber kit. i had an alignment sponsorship, got it done regularly. and ive got tires with very bad toe set at stock ride height that have bad "camber" wear. plenty of other ppl have the same experience.

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I'm just telling you what all the tire shops have been telling me. Even my friend who is a Mits. DSM fanatic and mechanic tells me that I should adjust the camber in my car....But what do I know.....

 

yes, youve got double wishbone suspension.

mitsubishis use macpherson. totally different.

what do tire techs know? they know the general rule for cars and are going to regurgitate that. kinda like what youre doing.

our suspension is better at controlling camber. its the REASON behind having double wishbone.

and heres another point. after changing ride heights and spring rate and probably different tire and wheel size, what does it mean to be "in spec" when youve thrown everything else out of spec.

 

Okay, cool....so I still plan on getting the "Ingalls" camber correction kit because I want even tire wear and since I don't do any "auto-cross" I'm not really concerned about having much negative camber to give me better traction on turns I just cruise around with my car anyway and use it as a daily driver b/c it's pretty good in gas especially since it's so @$#&*!# expensive to fill up now a days....

I still need help determining how much of a drop my car has to get the right kit. Anyone have ideas on how I could measure this? It also seems like my suspension bushings all around are shot or getting there. Which bushing set should I get for regular daily driving that are a little tighter than O.E. ?

thanks again....