I'm looking to replace my coilovers with H&R sport springs on a 97 civic hatch. The car has an adjustable camber kit. The tires are 205/45/16 if that matters. I want to adjust the camber kit to close as stock as possible.

I was wondering if anybody has a similar setup with STOCK front upper control arms and what their camber settings are after an alignment. Can anybody help?

 

When I had H&R Sports on my Integra, I had around -2 camber up front if I recall correctly.

6th gen Civic shouldn't be too much different.

 

Im not sure of my camber specs now but every time I go up a drive way, my tires rub the fenders bad and it cuts into the tire. Will this correct the issue?

 

I doubt it... that's happening because of your ride height.

I never had problems with my fenders cutting the tires of my 205/45-16's when I had GC's, and I was lower on those than I was on the H&R Sports.

 

The ride height currently is not "slammed" nor too low. I at least have one finger gap up front (and I have FAT fingers). I don't know what else it can be if this doesn't solve it.

 

Wait, is your camber close to straight up zero? If so, adding some negative camber may help the scraping issue.

If I were you I'd just find a pair of OEM upper control arms and throw those on, and then get an alignment.

 

Yeah, I thought about doing that but they're dang near 60 bucks. I want to try to adjust what I have before spending. I'm almost positive the camber is almost 0. But i'll get everything done this weekend and I'll post results for those who are having similar issues. Thanks for your input.

 

So I got new tires, h&r sport springs, and got the car realligned with almost -2 degrees of camber up front. What a difference it is. And no more fender scraping! I'm happy.

 

Cool deal. Did you get a print out of the alignment before/after specs?

Remember to rotate the tires front-to-rear every 5K miles or so.

 

Yeah before each side was about 0.5-0.7 degrees. Now it's about 1.6ish on both sides with 0 toe on all four. I'm wondering if the camber/toe changed at all due to the springs finally settling after a few days. I'll take it back this weekend just to be safe.