On my previous car (99 civic) I was tucking tires and never had a camber kit, only thing I did was set the toe as a close to 0º as I could all around and my tires were fine.

Now I have a 06+Si, would it make any difference now? I'm not going to be as low as I was, but just no wheel gap. Would I just have to see how much negative camber I have? What can I get away with?

 

Unlike your 99, your 06 is strut based. As such, it will not show anywhere near the same camber gain from lowering. You won't need a camber kit.

Be careful, you can over-lower a strut based car, such that handling actually suffers from lowering more.

 

I don't really know what the camber curves are like with the '06+ Civics as I haven't worked with one, but if it's like any other modern McPherson strut Honda, you will likely want to set the front camber more negative and the rear camber less negative once you've chosen your ride height.

 

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X2 get as much as u can from the front

 

Well to be honest, I'm not really concerned with handling, unless if its bad enough to effect daily driving. I'm mostly just worried about have too much negative camber in the rear and not as much in the front.

I had Eibach sportlines before, recently switched back to stock, and my fronts were about -0.1º to -0.2º. Can't remember what the rears were, but I like the ride height it was in the front. The rears sat higher.

Would it help at all if I find someone else alignment specs?

 

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The EK Civic has a significantly steeper rear camber curve than most of the wishbone based Hondas, and gains a lot more negative rear camber when lowered.

For the 06 Si, you'd have to dump it before the camber is an issue (and even then, I would argue its still not an "issue").

 

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The EK Civic has a significantly steeper rear camber curve than most of the wishbone based Hondas, and gains a lot more negative rear camber when lowered.

For the 06 Si, you'd have to dump it before the camber is an issue (and even then, I would argue its still not an "issue").</TD></TR></TABLE>

I see...I just talked to somebody that is lowered, no wheel gap all around, and his rear is -2.5º but he is on 18's. I am still on the stock 17's. How much rear negative camber can I get away without running into tire problems?

I'll see if the place I got my alignment done when I was on springs still has my specs because I can't find my sheet, it's been awhile.

Thanks


Modified by lando griffin at 1:02 AM 8/28/2008