I have eibach sportline springs and while on the stock rims and wheels i could notice that I had inner tire wear. It wasn't all that drastic or noticable. But then I got 17's with 205/40ZR-17 tires. I went to go get an alignment and the machine that they rolled my car over showed that my car was in perfect alignment. So I deleted the alignment of the job list. Has this happened to anyone else? Is it normal or possible? Or was is tech error and I should have it checked out again?

 

It's just neg camber. You can't adjust the camber with stock suspension.

 

That's normal wear. Type R's have negative camber, which will cause inner edge wear.

 

yeah but is it normal after being lowered?

 

you need a camber /caster kit...

 

As long as you have proper toe settings, you'll be good. BTW, why sportlines? lowering the car a lot to get worse handling than stock seems like a bad idea for some reason..

 

no such thing for a DC2.

And you don't need a "camber kit" assuming are are at or less than 2 degrees neg camber or so.. maybe even a bit more.

 

the readings on the machine were 0 and 0 that was the range. the sportlines have an awesome ride and eliminate the wheel gap with the 17's

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[Modified by FD3S, 9:27 AM 8/2/2002]

 

Maybe, but the sportlines aren't really my opinion of a performance spring.. just my opinion.

I've owned two of them before, the new project one is a friends, the process will be documented but we are shooting for 11s for < $4500 including the price of the car.. luckily we can do a LOT of the fabrication ourselves and all the work ourselves.

FD's are bad *** cars though.. love them.. but instead of getting one in a bit (after I pay off all my debt) I think I'll get a 93-95 MR2 Turbo instead.. I've always loved those things..

 

0.0 deg toe.

-1.6 and -1.9 deg camber.

Insides of my AVSi's showing steel in 10 months.

I was a bit perplexed by this, as my first set of AVSi's lasted two years with very little inside wear with the same alignment specs. The second set got chewed up like Big League. The only thing I can think of is that all the long highway trips I was taking (500 miles every almost weekend for the last year) is what did it.

 

air pressure?

 

32 psi, checked every other fillup.

 

hmm very interesting. Not sure what caused your issue. I've driven on highway and city (about 50/50 each) with -2.0 and -1.8 (fronts) and -1.5/-1.4 (rear) on tires for years now with absolutely no abnormal wear.. on P700-Z's, S03s and RE71s..

 

That is interesting. After my first set of AVSi's lasted so long I thought that would be my case too. I used to make fun of my friends who bitched about their squeaking camber kits, thinking "I'll never need to mess with that."

A couple of weeks ago I had my knuckles bent to adjust my camber. I'm now running +.6 and +.7. Ack! Not what I wanted, and I'll have them redone soon. Interestingly enough, the cornering isn't that bad with the positive front camber, but the front end feels disconnected on the freeway.