TRD Lowering Springs Camber. - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

ChrisP · 10-23-2015, 05:30 PM

About a week ago I installed the TRD lowering springs on my 2013 FR-S. When I went in to get an alignment done today the left rear camber was at -1.5 degrees and the right rear was at -2.6 degrees. I understand that dropping the car an inch will add negative camber but it seems odd that the right is 1.1 degrees off from the left. anyone have an idea as to why this would happen? for what its worth the front left is -.1 and the front right is -.4

Toyarzee · 10-23-2015, 05:39 PM

I'm sure others will chime in, but I believe this is just a matter of how the springs settled and how they were installed. This is why you're supposed to get an alignment as you have done after swapping out suspension components.

kuczynskika · 10-23-2015, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisP

About a week ago I installed the TRD lowering springs on my 2013 FR-S. When I went in to get an alignment done today the left rear camber was at -1.5 degrees and the right rear was at -2.6 degrees. I understand that dropping the car an inch will add negative camber but it seems odd that the right is 1.1 degrees off from the left. anyone have an idea as to why this would happen? for what its worth the front left is -.1 and the front right is -.4

I have TRD springs and I just recently got an alignment to get the tow and such all corrected. After everything was said and done I was sitting at -2 degrees camber on both of the rears. The front had less than 1 degree on either side if I remember properly.

Was the alignment guy able to correct the camber at all? When I went in they told me that it was not possible.

vroom4 · 10-23-2015, 05:41 PM

2.6 something may be wonky, worth checking the install. Highest I've heard of is 2.1 or so.

ryan t · 10-23-2015, 11:01 PM

Mine ended up similar, 1.7 lr and 2.5 rr

ryoma · 10-23-2015, 11:27 PM

do you know what your stock alignment was? it might have been off from the factory. my stock camber was pretty even at -1.3 both sides in the rear. I don't know how you would find that much of a difference by just swapping out springs, unless you didn't seat them correctly on the perch

ChrisP · 10-24-2015, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by kuczynskika

I have TRD springs and I just recently got an alignment to get the tow and such all corrected. After everything was said and done I was sitting at -2 degrees camber on both of the rears. The front had less than 1 degree on either side if I remember properly.

Was the alignment guy able to correct the camber at all? When I went in they told me that it was not possible.

Same here. I went to Les Shwab and they said it was non adjustable. So I'm currently in the process of looking for new lower control arms so I can adjust it.

Createddeleted · 10-24-2015, 09:09 PM

Mine was dead on -2 on both sides.

ChrisP · 10-26-2015, 12:48 PM

Could curbing the rear wheel throw the alignment/camber off? When I bought the car the right wheel was scratched and the tire had a chunk taken out. No damage to internals just looked like somone rubbed a curb pretty good.

vividracing · 10-26-2015, 12:53 PM

I don't think the wheel itself would cause a camber issue, but maybe the previous owner bent something in the suspension when he/she curbed the wheel. Worth looking into...

-Seth

ChrisP · 10-26-2015, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by vividracing

I don't think the wheel itself would cause a camber issue, but maybe the previous owner bent something in the suspension when he/she curbed the wheel. Worth looking into...

-Seth

Thanks for the heads up.

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ryoma Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Drives: 2015 Subaru BRZ Limited CWP Location: SoCal Posts: 1,561 Thanks: 34 Thanked 669 Times in 469 Posts Mentioned: 13 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	do you know what your stock alignment was? it might have been off from the factory. my stock camber was pretty even at -1.3 both sides in the rear. I don't know how you would find that much of a difference by just swapping out springs, unless you didn't seat them correctly on the perch __________________ My 2015 CWP BRZ Build

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vroom4 Join Date: Feb 2014 Drives: BRZ Location: East Posts: 820 Thanks: 18 Thanked 301 Times in 186 Posts Mentioned: 9 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	2.6 something may be wonky, worth checking the install. Highest I've heard of is 2.1 or so.

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