[lo bux racer]

Anyone selling a camber kit is ripping you off. Camber is adjustable from the factory by replacing a single bolt. They knew people were going to slam the cars, so they made the suspension adjustable.

Another thing about alignment. Camber less than -2.5 degrees does not cause inner edge wear, improper toe does. Excessive toe in or toe out will eat the inside (or outside) edges of your tires in a few thousand miles. If your camber is in excess of 2.5 degrees, you need to get it back into the realm of streetable (~-1.5) before doing anything else with alignment.

 

[lo bux racer]

Originally posted by tcChris@Jan 13 2005, 04:57 PM
what is the factory camber setting on the tC?

According to the FSM it is 0 degrees 31 minutes +/- 45 minutes, caster is 3 degrees 2 minutes with the same tolerance, steering axis inclination (SAI) is 12 degrees 31 minutes, same tolerance.

Toe is most important, and it is 0 degrees +/- 12 minutes, or for us old school types, 0mm +/- 2mm. Toe in tends to cause inner edge wear, toe out tends to cause outer edge wear. There is a huge difference in wear between 2mm toe out and 2mm toe in.

Toe is ALWAYS adjusted last because camber and caster changes can affect toe.

There's a lot more to alignment, but this covers the raw fundamental numbers.