I recently installed some KW V3s. Can someone recommend some alignment specs for me? The car is not "slammed" by any means, but its lowered modestly. I don't want anything too aggressive. Just something that will work decently well for autocross and daily driving.

Relevant mods are:
Whiteline front sway bar
17x10 rear, 17x8 front wheels
275 rear, 235 front tires
KW V3 coilovers
rest of the suspension is stock


Obviously this is not for looking "hellaflush", but more performance oriented.

Please let me know what you would recommend.

Thanks.

 

Since you have much more tire in the rear and a stiffer front sway bar your car should push pretty bad at the limit. I would recommend stock settings all around except increase front camber to match the rear which for the 2000-20003 was -1.5 degrees. This will improve your handling balance but still be fine for daily driving.

This is a very general recommendation since I don't know anything about you, your car, or if you plan to run autocross or HPDE.

 

Thanks. Yes, I plan to autocross and HPDE. Does this change your recommendations any?

 

-1.5 camber all around is probably a good starting point for you since you daily drive the car. Going more aggressive will mean more inside shoulder tire wear. It depends on where you want to balance tire life with more track grip.

 

Thanks. Sounds good.

You think the rear toe is fine at the OEM spec? Several people told me to do less. One person said 0.2 degrees rear toe in specifically. Thoughts?

 

I can't really recommend less rear toe than stock because when I tried running less it gave me a case of high speed corner entry over steer but most people haven't had problems with running less. Since your rear is going to be so planted with those big tires you could probably get away with running less but I wouldn't go any lower than 50% of stock.

 

As I said, I am by no means an expert, so can you help me interpret if they did it right or not?

I told them to use OEM specs except "-1.5 camber all around" (as per your suggestion) and ".28 total toe in degrees" (as per suggestion of another member on here... seemed like a happy medium between the 0.2 someone else suggested and stock, so I thought I'd give it a shot...)

Here is what I got:



Is that correct or did they give me twice as much toe as I requested? I am confused.

Thanks.

 

i think most run 0 toe up front

 

Thats not OEM spec though is it?

Rob, what do you think about 0 toe up front?

 

The 2000-2003 shop manual lists front toe as 0 plus/minus .08 so .05 is ok but 0 would be better. It does look like they set .25 inch toe-in on each rear wheel (.5 total) which is twice the .25 total in the shop manual. If they did set .5 total that must be reduced or your car will handle strangely and the rear tires will wear quickly.

Here's my S2000 alignment web page: http://robrobinette....00Alignment.htm