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> Rear Alignment: Relationship between Camber and Toe, Talking through my settings, interested in informed feedback!
Morrie
post Aug 13 2022, 01:46 PM
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Hi Guys!

I had my car 4 wheel aligned yesterday and overall went well. I've replaced all the bushings, shocks, struts, springs, bearings, etc so it was all totally out of wack....

Good news, everything came into spec in front. All good. Car drives great now. In the rear I needed a bit of camber to clear the tops of my tires, so I am sitting here:

Rear Left:
Camber: -1 deg 24'
Toe: -0 deg 18'

Rear Right:
Camber: -1 deg 12'
Toe: -0 deg 02'


Camber: Factory says max difference from left to right is +/- 20'. I've got 12' difference side to side so I think I am okay there, even though the extra camber may cause some tire wear that I can live with.

Toe: Factory says toe should be 0deg +15' per side. The alignment shop set limits to 0deg +/- 15'.

A lot of numbers and I can make a bunch of guesses, but I would like to know for my road car which gets some spirited hill country driving, should I work on getting more positive rear camber toe, and is it as opening up the slots in the outside suspension arm mounts to allow for more rear travel of the arm?

Sorry if this is beaten to death or overcomplicated. Writing it down here helped me get it straight in my head. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) If it helps, below are my suspension settings and condition. Car was corner balanced prior to going for alignment, and is slightly lowered. Clearance on the RH side (passengers) rear tire is tight but it does clear with the current settings.

Front:
Stock Torsion Bars
15mm stock front anti sway bar with new bushings
Turbo Tie Rods
New Ball Joints
New 914 Rubber bushings
New front Koni Red externally adjustable strut inserts.
New Wheel Bearings
16x6 5 lug Fuchs
Bridgestone Potenza RE980 A/S Plus, 205 /55 R16


Rear:
New 100lb Eibach coils
Ground Control adjustable spring perches
Koni Red adjustable shock absorbers
New 914 Rubber bushings
New rear wheel bearings
16x6 5 lug Fuchs
Bridgestone Potenza RE980 A/S Plus, 205 /55 R16


Thanks Guys!
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Morrie   Rear Alignment: Relationship between Camber and Toe   Aug 13 2022, 01:46 PM
Montreal914   Looking forward to reading input from the “prosâ...   Aug 13 2022, 02:03 PM
Morrie   You don’t have sway bars? First of many edit...   Aug 13 2022, 09:15 PM
Superhawk996   A lot of numbers and I can make a bunch of guess...   Aug 13 2022, 02:05 PM
stownsen914   Have to agree on the toe in at the rear. Definitel...   Aug 13 2022, 03:56 PM
Superhawk996   . . . 914s are known to flex in the rear under co...   Aug 13 2022, 04:46 PM
stownsen914   Semi Trailing Arms tend to flex (physical deform...   Aug 16 2022, 12:18 PM
Morrie   I think you wrote it down wrong? You would want...   Aug 13 2022, 09:59 PM
Superhawk996   The specs the shop had loaded in their computer ...   Aug 14 2022, 09:27 AM
Morrie   Shop specs are wrong. Agreed. They were set ...   Aug 15 2022, 04:27 PM
sixnotfour   Good Ole Ray Scruggs.. https://silo.tips/download/...   Aug 13 2022, 07:27 PM
ChrisFoley   On the side that you can't get toe in, the tra...   Aug 14 2022, 03:43 AM
Morrie   On the side that you can't get toe in, the tr...   Aug 14 2022, 08:07 AM
mlindner   I had the same issue in the rear...little toe out ...   Aug 14 2022, 07:50 AM
Morrie   I had the same issue in the rear...little toe out...   Aug 14 2022, 08:10 AM
mlindner   Morrie, just 1/16 or so on the trailing edge of th...   Aug 14 2022, 08:22 AM
ChrisFoley   Butt I did weld the stiffining kit to the contro...   Aug 14 2022, 10:52 AM
914_teener   Butt I did weld the stiffining kit to the contr...   Aug 15 2022, 12:27 PM
Morrie   I didn't read that you replaced the rear bus...   Aug 15 2022, 04:37 PM
914_teener   I didn't read that you replaced the rear bu...   Aug 15 2022, 07:17 PM
mlindner   I agree 100% with Superhawk996, you need to find t...   Aug 14 2022, 10:18 AM
dr914@autoatlanta.com   the rear camber HAS to be 30 minutes or the inside...   Aug 15 2022, 01:04 PM
Morrie   the rear camber HAS to be 30 minutes or the insid...   Aug 15 2022, 04:32 PM
ChrisFoley   914s are known to have a little tighter fit beneat...   Aug 15 2022, 07:58 PM
ChrisFoley   The trailing arm specs are: 12.5 deg toe, 1.5 deg ...   Aug 15 2022, 08:00 PM
914_teener   Superhawk is one sharp guy!   Aug 16 2022, 07:24 PM


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