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Old May 21, 2004 | 05:16 PM
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Default SPC Rear Camber kit installed, Walkthrough & Pictorial

I received this very nice looking rear camber kit from SPC(Specialty Products Company). The upper control arms are sold singly, and have a MSRP of $75 each, however they can be purchased from NOPI for ~$55 each, so it’s ~$110 for the pair, which I believe to be a fairly decent deal. The part is adjustable from -2-->+5, I think that's on a stock suspension, so it should give you a fair amount of additional negative camber with the car being lowered.

I would like to thank Downey for his time, and assistance, as well as the camer to take the pictures...he liked the part so much I ordered a set up for the rear of his hatchback.

Installing the rear camber kit was fairly easy…just put the rear up on jacks,



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Removing the old piece is a matter of 3 bolts, since I forgot to take pictures of the bolts before I removed the old part, here are the bolts highlighted on the new part:



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Here are a couple of pictures comparing the stock USDM piece to the SPC piece, quite a change…I wonder how much the stock piece flexes under high cornering loads…



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Then you reinstall the two bolts that are mounted onto the body, making sure that the “adjuster nuts” are still loose, I’ll explain later.



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The directions from SPC state that you are not to torque down the single bolt, nor are you to tighten down the adjuster nuts until the car is on the ground, which according to the directions will cause the bushing to have a preload against it, which will shorten the life of the bushing…well, we put the car on the ground and couldn’t get to the nuts/bolt, then we tried putting the car on some blocks of wood, still didn’t work….hmmm, aha let’s just take the rim off and put a load against the rotor to put enough of a load on the suspension so that it will see a similar load as if the tire was on the ground. Doing this made me feel that the piece could only be installed as per the instructions if the car was up on a rolled onto a rack and lifted up, similar to when the car is on an alignment machine.



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And here’s what it looks like when it’s fully installed:



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In order to change the camber you need to loosen the two “adjuster nuts” and rotate the middle section to the desired camber setting.



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Here's the front camber kit that I'm waiting to come out from SPC...

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Old May 21, 2004 | 11:12 PM
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Default Re: SPC Rear Camber kit installed, Walkthrough & Pictorial (Austin)

Yep, that's the only sort of rear camber kit I would run if I were to run a set. But I don't so.... I don't. I like that style of rear toe compensator arm replacement, as well. It helps you really fine-tune the alignment instead of having to pry against the trailing arms to adjust the rear toe.

That upper control arm sure is oddly shaped, looks like there could be clearance problems inside the shock tower on cars that are fairly low. I haven't seen a front camber kit yet that doesn't look like it's prone to possibly slipping out of position, and that one is no different.
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