Hi there,

I have a newbie question. I am just curious about camber and coil-over suspension. When you lower your car with a true coilover suspension how do you correct for camber? If you use a camber kit is your suspension still adjustable? Just curious on how that works.

Thanks for any info,

Ian

 

Regardless of how you lower your car (coil-over kit, standard lowering springs, or stupidly cut the OE coils), the lower you go the more likely you will need some form of camber compensation if you don't want to keep throwing tires at it.

It is the lowering itself that causes the alignment change and potential need for compensation, not the method of lowering.

 

But once you lower you car with an adjustable system(coilover) and correct for camber (camber kit), are you still able to adjust the height of the car? I guess I am wondering how tunable a suspension is once you have it set up. People make it sound like with a coilover system you can change your ride height very easily, and I am just wondering how they compensate for the negative camber.

Ian

 

negative camber is GOOD. -2.0 camber wore my azenis quite evenly, 100% on the street (i have track tires).

 

Say you have a coil over system and you have dropped your car 2 inches and have added a camber kit so it is exactly the way you want for street driving. Now you want to go to the track and have the car lowered even more. With an adjustable system can you just lower it some more at the track or would you have to take the camber kit off before you lowered it more?

Ian

 

The camber kit does not affect how you lower your car, it just corrects the consequences (increased neg. camber) of lowering your car. Besides, why would you lower your car for the street by 2" and then lower it further for the track? Two inches is already quite a lot and besides, you would end up screwing your alignment by varying degrees at all four corners.

 

Camber kits and coilovers are 2 different parts that can be adjusted regardless of what the other is doing.

 

Ok I think I understand now. Thanks for your help everyone.

Ian