Firestone on the corner of Canyon and Cedar Hills Blvd has a special currently on there lifetime alignments. 139.99 for as long as you own your car. You can take it in anytime and give them the specs you like and they will set it. So if you go to the track you can change it or just keep your car in good running order. I have taken my NSX there for 3 years and this has paid off many times over especially when you get new tires or have them checked like we should.


John

 

Good post!

Thanks for the information, John.

Larry

 

Thanks Larry I am taking the s2000 in for the lifetime as just got the 06 wheels and want to make sure I get the maximum life out of them.


John


The manager of Firestone is Gordon.

Tell him John with the NSX sent you

 

Good info.

Don't want to pee on your thread in any way. But, for people in the PDX area that don't get our to the BVTN area, I'd algo give a big fat to Travis at the Line-Up Shop on SE Sandy. He's been aligning all my cars for years. He's a younger guy who aligns cars in the "old school" manner. UBER anal about settings/accuracy, and does a lot of track alignments for the local folks. He's not 139 bucks for life, but he's very reasonable and does awesome work. Just wanted to add that in for good order sake.

Line-Up Shops Inc
834 SE Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 234-9797

Line-Up Shops

 

For what it's worth, I've used both -- the Line Up Shop and Gordon at Firestone -- and both did good work. While I like someone who's super-careful in what they do (and the Line Up Shop certainly falls in that cateogry), I feel compelled to point out that trying to get an alignment dialed in beyond a certain point is futile. Drive the car off the rig and back on, reattach the hardware, and you'll get substantially different numbers. Drive the car from one shop to another, same result. The fact is that there's a lot of squishiness in the process, not to mention the fact that when you actually drive the car, the geometry changes a lot across compression, rebound, and turn-in.

CB

 

Very true Bender-San... you're right as usual.

That's why if you're REALLY serious, you just do your own. One of my buddies does his own allignments and did the race car before I sold it and the last one on the S2000 in my garage.

He got most of his goodies here.

I haven't had enuf book learnin' to want to do my own.

 

Hiya Brad,

Actually, if you're really serious, use a pyrometer at the track to establish optimal camber values, leave the caster alone, and fuss with toe until you get the behavior you're looking for at the limit...

CB

 

Yes, but if you are REALLY serious, don't you need a "squishiness" guage as well?

Just a thought...

Larry

 

Actually, I'd argue that everyone should have a squishiness gauge for home use, particularly guys like GoKart3...

 

HEY!!!!!!! I resemble that comment.

PS.... I've got BOOST coming.