So I got my alignment done this morning. It took the guy 38 mins, including getting it on and off the rack, that really surprised me. And he did indeed keep his word to do it accurately.
Cost 59 eurodollars compared to taking it to a race shop here where they charge 300-500€. Granted, it will including corner balance and damper setup. I'll live without the corner balance and my dampers are 1-way, so I'll mess with that myself.
Alignments reports are not that colourful in Germany:
Translated to English and converted from deg/min to decimal and mm to inch:
Code:
Left Right Left Right
Front: After Before
Caster (deg) 6.06 6.05 6.06 6.05
Camber (deg) -2.48 -2.43 -2.33 -2.41
Toe (inch) 0.02 0.02 -0.02 -0.05
Rear:
Camber (deg) -1.83 -1.83 -1.88 -2.00
Toe-in (inch) 0.04 0.04 -0.10 -0.24
The before values I find quite interesting, because they confirm what I assumed from the beginning:
1) The car gained toe out in the front from being lowered. It was also pretty even in the front as I assumed. In the rear I assume the toe remained relatively unchanged (regret not having it measured) on stock control arms - the car drove great before installing the SPC arms!
2) After I installed the SPC LCAs (and I think reducing the camber), the car drove absolutely terrible. Again as I assumed, it had gained a lot of toe out from standing the wheels back up. Most was almost a 1/4" toe out on the rear righthand side!
Another interesting fact:
The top mount slipped to max negative camber during adjustment. It maxed out at -3.5 deg (-3 30').
Also it had a negligible effect on toe, so it I want I can play around with that when taking it to the track.
I will drive it for a while with the new alignment, but I think I already miss the toe out in the front.