Ok so I have been looking for a solution to my camber problems since I bought my car. The guy before me put lowing sleeves on the car and now it has a rediculas amount of camber. There isn't enough room in the wheel well for adjustable ball joints and I don't like them anyway and the only other stuff I can find are adjustable mounts for the control arms and I don't want those because they would be hard to adjust for the track and nearly imposible to set back properly without having to put it on the aliment rack. Does anybody know of any adjustable control arms for our cars that don't involve ebay?
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lol what? you have two options anchor style or balljoint style. Usually people that dual purpose their "race car" set up their suspension at the beginning of the season and then get readjusted back to street spec when the season is over.
anything else is going to be custom and expensive and suited for a track only car. i dont think youll see many guys messing with camber all willy nilly in the pits and try to eyeball it to drive back home..
edit: sorry 3 options, you can run civic upper control arms or something like that.
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The Civic upper control arms add MORE camber, not less.Originally posted by illinois_erik View PostComment
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Well that is good to know. Are civic control arms just shorter or something? Because I definatly don't need more camber, Im sitting at probably 4 or 5 degrees as it is.Comment
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The civic arms are shorter over all and increase the amount of negative camber. The only options to correct the amount of negative camber are the balljoint and anchor bolt style kits. Both will increase the height of the upper control arm; and depending on how low you are, will cause the upper control arm to bang against the inner fenderwell.
If you have adjustable coils, then you can just raise the car up and the negative camber will decrease dependent on how high you go.
However, you can reduce the amount of negative camber on the rear wheels by simply installing some washers to get to the desired specs.Comment
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The only way to adjust the camber is to move the location of the upper ball joint. That is done by installing either an adjustable ball joint, or adjustable anchor bolts (that will move the entire arm.) To decrease negative camber, you move the ball joint out. When the car is lowered beyond a certain point, moving the ball joint far enough to properly correct the camber will result in the ball joint/arm making contact with the wheel well. The wheel well was not designed with this modification in mind.
Your only solutions are to:
a) Raise the car to a reasonable height (something tells me whatever shocks it's riding on aren't made to handle the slammed height or spring rate anyway.)
b) Modify the wheel well so the arm clears (this could involve hammering or cutting... either way, you'll need to prep and repaint the surface after the job is done.)
c) Dealing with the negative camber, replacing tires every few thousand miles as the inside edges (then the primary contact patches) wear out.
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