strut mod for more camber

[Guest loren]

I have rotated the top hat of the front struts to give max caster, min SAI and min camber as discussed

in another thread. I only have one set of camber bolts currently (installed on the rear), and have been told

rally guys usually modify the struts rather than install weaker camber bolts. Has anyone done this?

I was thinking about widening the bottom bolt hole of the strut, to give a fixed increase... then put the factory

camber adjust bolt in the top hole for fine adjustment.

sound about right?

[Guest loren]

hmm, actually would that need to be the other way around... widen the top bolt hole?

[Guest boostcut]

what are you trying to achieve? is it for a race car?

[Guest loren]

trying to achieve more neg camber without a camber bolt... yes race car.

[Guest boostcut]

custom adjustable lower arm....?

[Guest Fastfour]

The bottom of my shocks where they are bolted are slotted.

[Guest loren]

 Fastfour said:

The bottom of my shocks where they are bolted are slotted.

Top bolt or bottom bolt?

[Guest Fastfour]

I cant remember if both of the bottom ones were slotted or just one sorry.

Chris at Suspension Tech will be able to point you in the right direction.

www.stech.co.nz

[Guest loren]

 Fastfour said:

I cant remember if both of the bottom ones were slotted or just one sorry.

Chris at Suspension Tech will be able to point you in the right direction.

www.stech.co.nz

ok thanks.

[madmike]

Chris built the coil over shocks for my rs... That guy is a wealth of knowledge.

He has a good set of cam/cas settings he gave me.

Going to Mag and Turbo next week to get them dialed in.

Not sure Wether to post them up or not......

Can Pm them to ya if ya want.

[Guest loren]

chris has rebuilt a couple of shocks for me recently, but he's a bit far away to use for much.

I'm going to take it to Total Performance for a wheel alignment soon, just want to get the

camber adjustability sorted without rip off camber bolts.

I've done a bit of searching and it doesn't sound like a big deal at all to modify the struts.

I'll just dremel a mm of the top bolt hole, and go from there.

[Guest Fastfour]

Yeah Chris used to work with Possum, and enjoyed working on Possums WRC car.

Its amazing the stuff he knows.

[madmike]

Yeah he knows his shit. And has helped me a lot with my car.

[Tony]

Loren, dont bother with camber bolts, use a die grinder/dremel - its easy as, done it on my ones. You can actually get quite a bit of camber out of it. Only thing you have to watch out for is that it will move the wheel/tyre closer to the strut - can be quite close if your coilover locking rings are at the same height as the tyre...

[Guest loren]

 Tony said:

Loren, dont bother with camber bolts, use a die grinder/dremel - its easy as, done it on my ones. You can actually get quite a bit of camber out of it. Only thing you have to watch out for is that it will move the wheel/tyre closer to the strut - can be quite close if your coilover locking rings are at the same height as the tyre...

Thanks... was planning on doing the dremel thing. I worked out 1.1mm will give exactly 1 degree, so was going to

cut away 3mm from the bottom bolt hole... then with the standard top camber bolt I'd be able to set between 2 and 4mm

of neg camber (approximately).

I will make sure the tyre isn't too close first though, good tip

[newsuba]

That's what I had done on mine too.

Drilled stock struts.

I can get a tad over -3º neg. camber.

[Guest loren]

just finished one side... was easy as, only took about 30mins of grinding.