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| sk8kat1 |
 Feb 10 2006, 09:55 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 911 Joined: 10-October 05 From: belvidere ,IL Member No.: 4,937  |
who can you trust to give a proper alignment to a 914 and not fuck your car up by using what ever shims seem to work or just guessing
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| Dave_Darling |
Feb 11 2006, 01:47 AM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 15,051 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California 
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A shop with 914 experience would be the best thing. Where to find one near Belvedere IL, I don't know. (I don't even know where Belvedere is, and I grew up in Urbana...)
Have you considered doing the alignment yourself? A Google search on DIY suspension alignment will turn up a bunch of articles... --DD |
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| McMark |
Feb 11 2006, 03:05 AM
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914 Freak! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 20,179 Joined: 13-March 03 From: Grand Rapids, MI Member No.: 419 Region Association: None |
Is a DIY alignment really that effective? The only techniques I've heard of sound much like long multi-step processes where each step is prone to marginal errors, which when compounded by the process become significant. I have no real experience with DIY alignment, so people with experience, please chime in.
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| KenH |
Feb 11 2006, 11:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Gilroy, CA Member No.: 156 |
You can absolutly do your own alignment. It will take some time and an investment in a few tools but you can do as good a job, if not better, as any shop. Because you care.
Look thru the manuals at this site as a starting point. http://www.smartracingproducts.com/ Note: you can build an accurate repeatable "914 specific" string set up very inexpesivly, less than $10. And for a few hundred $ more you can do your own corner balance. If you are going to be changing suspensions, experimenting with "the best toe" setting, etc. it will pay you to DIY. Ken |
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| J P Stein |
Feb 11 2006, 12:36 PM
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Irrelevant old fart Group: Members Posts: 8,797 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Vancouver, WA Member No.: 45 Region Association: None |
I do my own camber...just for the hell of it...with a broke off tape measure & a hand level. Usually checks out to be within .1 deg or better.
I take the car to the guy up the street, tell them what I want for settings, stand there and watch them dial it in on their machine, then give them money. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) Building that kind of realtionship with an alignment guy is a good idea, me thinks. |
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| toon1 |
Feb 11 2006, 12:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,849 Joined: 29-October 05 From: tracy,ca Member No.: 5,022 |
it seems like it would be possible to use a lazer instead of a srting.
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