Hey everyone, glad to see a NM section on here. Just picked up my S about a month ago for a weekend fun car and have been loving it. Recently installed Eibach springs and was wondering if you all had any input for alignment settings? I'd say aggressive street settings. The car may see a few track events each year but its primarily a weekend street car. Should I just stick with the OEM settings? Hope to see you all around! Thanks in advance. Sean

 

Welcome.


Eibach makes a good spring. I am not sure of alignments and settings. I know there should be a couple of guys here that can point out a shop that does that.
If you got coilovers, you could have your car corner balanced for track and street fun.
Hopefully others can chime in with that info.

Again, welcome.

 

Welcome! I have swift springs on my car which I got just for the look of lowering it. Recently I have had it on the track for fun. I'm my opinion I would get rid of the camber and toe or whatever it's called as much as possible. Reading for this is because it will save your tires. You will see that sport cars havelots of negative readcamber and this wears theinner half of your tires more. The car still handles, drives, and tracks great. I just prefer buying newtires when the entire thing is worn, not just half.


Enjoy the car and come to your first meet this Saturday at sandia motor speedway!
Doug

 

Chet's for an alignment. They can set it up however you would like; track, street, a little of both, etc. I suggest you look for the UK alignment settings here and those should be about what you're looking for if you want a bit more aggressive alignment. In regards to the tire alignment/ wear issue, you can go a bit more aggressive on camber if you drive the car hard on a regular basis... if you don't you will eat the inner portion of the tires first. If you're hard on the car on a normal basis, the car will be constantly squatting due to suspension compression and the tires will wear more normally.

 

Sean, if you plan to track your car, I would set the front camber to at least -1.5 degrees and set the front toe to zero. Toe will wear tires much faster than camber will. The added camber will really help your tires wear evenly on the track. If I could, I would run -2.5 degrees for street and track driving, but it's tough to get without absolutely slamming the car, adding J's camber joints, SPC ball joints or offset control arm bushings.

For the rear, I would set the camber to -2.1 degrees on both sides and set the rear toe to 1/4" total toe in. This will be a safe setting for the track. Zero toe in the rear will equal drift/spin city! The rear will try to come around so quickly, it'll be surprising. I'm running a modified 1.25" solid front sway bar and I still run at least 1/8" total toe in. Our cars need rear toe to be safe during high-load turns; it's just the nature of the beast. If you feel that it's pushy (understeer), you can easily take rear toe out. Just be aware that the rear toe and rear camber are linked. If you adjust one, you change the other.

As far as shops, I recommend the Firestone Complete Auto Care on Central and 7th. Ask for Perry and tell him Jake sent you. They've done about 15 alignments on my car and will work with you until you're happy with the results.

 

Thanks for all the great input guys. I am going to let it settle a bit longer and then will take it in. I am going to look into the UK alignment settings a bit more seems they might be what i'm looking for. I am aware of the track event this weekend and considered running it but i sliced my hand open yesterday at work so I will just spectate this time round. I have done SCCA events before in my RSX and GTI. Seems like this weekends event allows for plenty of track time, which the SCCA events do not offer. Hope to see some of you out there. Take Care.