Hey guys just a quick question, I couldn't find a concrete answer in the archives so hopefully someone can just help me out. My question is

Can I lower/ "dump" my car and instead of purchasing a camber kit, just got get an alignment done and have them set the toe near 0 i believe ?

I'm just curious cause i'm itching to lower my car more but don't want my tires to get ate @ if you guys can help me out i'd greatly appreciate it - thanks justin

 

u can dump it to a point where they can still correct it to OEM spec. But if u do it extreme....u get what u ask 4. camber wear!

 

Thanks for the quick response, that's what i was thinkin is do OEM specs.

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No, you don't want OEM spec. You want 0 toe.

After lowering my car a bit to add some camber before a track day, I measured my toe, and it was within spec (&gt;1/16 out). I didn't want to mess with it because I was being lazy. Got to the track, and noticed some feathering on the inside of my tires; set to 0, and haven't had a problem since.

 

alright so just have the toe adusted to 0 and i should be good w/ lowering the car more ?

 

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Yes, you should be fine. Make sure you get before and after printouts at the shop.

 

How far can you lower before you need to have camber kit? 1inch? 2inches? More?

 

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I don't know about inches, but I'm running around 3* of neg camber (enough so you can see that there's alot of neg camber) and have no uneven wear issues.

 

depends on your car but usually 1.5"-2.0" is where you will start to need a camber kit