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Old Apr 6, 2010 | 07:11 PM
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Default Passenger Side of car is higher then driver

This is on my 1994 honda prelude
I am running Eibach Sportlines with tokico blue struts, with ingalls ball joint rear camber kit, megan racing adjustable toe rods, and front ingalls controll arm bushing camber kit. The left is perfect straight camber and all the right side camber is off a lil bit still but dunno how to get it anymore. but there is a huge gap on passanger side compared to driver and i want to get it fixed! Can someone give me some help.

By way when i had 17s it didn't do this wasn't untill i dropped it another inch putting 16s on it
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Old Apr 7, 2010 | 05:34 AM
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so... you're running straight up 0 camber? Your car is handling worse because of that. Put the stock control arms back on and it might help the height issue somewhat, maybe.

You don't need camber correction with Sportline springs, or any lowering spring really, for that matter.
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Old Apr 7, 2010 | 06:24 AM
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How about first going and having someone do a professional alignment. Tell them you want your camber set to at least -1 on both front wheels. They will also check most of the suspension components so if there is something wrong they might find it.

If its still higher on one side after that, it has to be the springs causing it.
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Old Apr 7, 2010 | 06:40 AM
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Could be other things, like damaged spring seat or top hat, bent shock fork, etc.
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Old Apr 7, 2010 | 09:22 AM
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its the fact that your transmission is on the passenger side and the motor is on the drivers side. Now which weighs more? Only way to correct this is with coilovers. Also if you just put them on give them a week or 2 to settle
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Old Apr 7, 2010 | 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by 1.5Slowmatic
its the fact that your transmission is on the passenger side and the motor is on the drivers side. Now which weighs more? Only way to correct this is with coilovers. Also if you just put them on give them a week or 2 to settle
The difference should not be a "huge gap" like the OP stated. My front passenger side is maybe 1/4" to 1/2" at the most higher than my front driver side, which really isn't noticeable at all.



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Old Apr 10, 2010 | 01:38 PM
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Correction.

My car is not 100% 0 degree camber. And I had a professional allignment done. The sportline is like 2 inch drop, and it has been installed for over 2 years. The car originally sat on 17s and tucked even besides the camber. Now after switching to 16s and putting205/40/16 nittos on it it dropped another inch. I will add pictures later.

Also patrick preludes don't use aftermarket control arms. Still stock for me. Just ingalls ball joint camber kit for rear with megan racing adjustable toe arms. Front is using ingalls bushing type camber kit. I understand 0 camber will affect ride and i am not trying to get 0 degree, just don't want my car higher on one side or like l \ one side
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