ebay 914/6...the ongoing saga Options

[fuch toy]

Well I paid off the owner, paid the wrench via a credit card....still no car. They noticed alignment issues and it's still there.

I have yet to see a good pic of it or the engine......geez, dealing with wrenches that you know only by rep is a bit unnerving. When I heard of the alignment issues I asked how far they were from Steve Alarcon in Torrance......very frostily he informed me that HIS shop did not hold a candle to their's.......welllllll exsqueeeeeze me...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif)

Not like I have ever been in YOUR shop.....I bought this off ebay.....geeez. Oh well, maybe Friday........

STILL HAVE THAT 74 taking up space.......it RUNS and is a 2.0......did I mention that?

[Joe Bob]

...THEN the asshole credit card vendor...

Then, due to the Carrera front end being in the 914 the alignment could not get any better than +1 on the camber as well as the right rear.  Looks like I have to cut the top to get more negative camber and do either longer studs in the rear to get more space to adjust the rear camber...

well - all those credit card guys is slime, but some are worse than others ...

IIRC the Tarrett monoball upper strut mounts have multiple mounting points allowing increased negative camber. you're the first person i've heard of having this issue with the Carrera front end, but i don't claim to be that well clued-in to the issues ...

too much positive camber in the rear is a standard symptom of a curb-strike bent trailing arm...

They SAY they can get more negative in the rear....but that the tire will rub on the inner well where the frame stiffener plates are unless it's spaced out more....it could be bent, but more spacers need longer studs as the minimum number of turns on the lugnut would be exceeded by going with more than the 1/4 inch spacer already on there.