What happened to my rear camber? - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

norcalpb · 08-23-2014, 09:29 PM

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.

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

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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norcalpb Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Drives: 2013 BRZ, 2023 Model 3 Location: SF Bay Area Posts: 2,345 Thanks: 1,256 Thanked 902 Times in 590 Posts Mentioned: 15 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	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. And here are the results from today after installing the new suspension 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

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08-23-2014, 10:07 PM	#2
Ganthrithor Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Drives: '13 BRZ, '06 997, Other Things(TM) Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 1,078 Thanks: 1,715 Thanked 670 Times in 351 Posts Mentioned: 9 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	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?

08-23-2014, 10:10 PM	#3
cnk Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Drives: '13 DGM BRZ Limited Location: NJ Posts: 1,201 Thanks: 59 Thanked 547 Times in 339 Posts Mentioned: 8 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	There is some wiggle room in all the components when reinstalling. I'm betting that's where most of your discrepancy is coming from. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk

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norcalpb Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Drives: 2013 BRZ, 2023 Model 3 Location: SF Bay Area Posts: 2,345 Thanks: 1,256 Thanked 902 Times in 590 Posts Mentioned: 15 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	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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