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norcalpb 08-23-2014 09:29 PM

What happened to my rear camber?
 
Hey guys, I just installed koni struts/rce tarmac springs/hvt top hats on my 2013 BRZ. Everything feels great, but I have a discrepancy with the rear camber.

I got an alignment with stock suspension on 8/20/14 as part of my car coming back from the body shop (hit a tire) here are the after results. Pretty good, toe was just slightly off.

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...ECA90042AE.jpg

And here are the results from today after installing the new suspension

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...737A55FC43.jpg

As you can camber is -1.5 on one side and -2.3 on the other. Is this due to an installation error? Or is this level of difference acceptable? I was jumping on the back right control arm to get the strut out, maybe I damaged it? I might switch the rear struts (if thats even possible) to see if that helps.

Thanks in advance!
Steve

Ganthrithor 08-23-2014 10:07 PM

Hahaha, I just spent five minutes staring at the first picture going, "Huh? It's identical side-for-side," before realizing there was another photo.

Don't you generally need to have things re-aligned any time you make any suspension changes?

cnk 08-23-2014 10:10 PM

There is some wiggle room in all the components when reinstalling. I'm betting that's where most of your discrepancy is coming from.

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norcalpb 08-23-2014 10:14 PM

Thanks for the replies,

I got 2 alignments in the last 3 days

The wiggle room sounds like it may be causing the problem, but the "before" had 1.5/2.5f
1.6/2.3r,

So the whole right side of the car had excessive camber and toe. Maybe it just wasn't settled haha.


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