Weird sounds after installing lowering springs (not clunking)

[Decep]

Originally Posted by churchx

camber shouldn't affect much handling. Many drive just fine with considerable amount of negative camber for dual-use, track and daily driving, cars. Toe on the other hand can do bad things to handling even at slight extent wrong, making car not track straight or tending to turn to one side if braking or if accelerating, if toe not even, be too stable unwilling to turn, or opposite, too nervous and willing to loose traction, especially under throttle, cause extra toe tire wear and hurt fuel economy and so on.
Toe = preturned wheel to/from centerline. That means, if turned a lot - wheel drags a lot sideway all the time. In stabilizing (and not willing to turn) way if toe-in (=both sides steered to centerline), destabilizing, if toe-out (=both tires presteered to outside, from centerline), so willing to turn depending on which wheel with more grip (usually outer tires in turn, front tires if braking, rear tires if accelerating). If uneven, then car tends to steer more to one side and so on. Summarizing it up, good alignment toe-wise should be zero front, slight toe-in rear (as car is RWD, for slightly more stability under throttle rear, for driving straight even if wheels slip, and for more stable behavior, when accelerating out of turns), and of course toe even from side to side, to track straight in different scenarios.

When i first bought my car the -0.2 of toe out made the steering so much better than when i zero'd it out.

Same as when i installed coilovers, lowering it gave me -0.2 of toe, steering felt a lot more direct and positive than after i zero'd it out.

I'd keep it that way if i didnt care about the cost of tires lol.

[brosifSmith]

Turns out the front was toe in by a total of -.53 degrees. They zeroed it out but kept the camber where it was and now it handles like it's on rails. Crazy how much of a difference that excessive toe in had. I installed some camber bolts in the front too, they are the 16 mm ones, top bolt replacement. They dont seem to help add much camber though, with those in it was at -0.7 on both. I was hoping to have about -1.5 camber. Has anyone experienced this? Perhaps I just put them in the wrong way but it seemed pretty obvious which way they should go to increase negative camber. I put them in one way then rotated them 180 degrees and couldn't really see a difference or the hub moving in or out much. Anyone else installed spc bolts? If so did you have the cam lobe facing in to gain negative camber or does it need to face out?