Curious about alignment specs KW V3's
 

Currently running kw v3's set at the maximum recommended height(modestly lowered), 17X8/9in wheels, 215/245 star specs. I had the car dialed in for the U.K spec alignment but wasn't happy with it once the coil-overs were installed.
Any insight on recommended alignment specs for my set up would be helpful and greatly appreciated.

why weren't you happy with it?

did you get them re-aligned once the coils were put in.

i have buddy clubs n+ and i was thinking about getting UK specs except for zeroing out the toe.

oh and bump those tires up to 235/255 :D

I'm willing to bet he just put the coilovers on and didn't realign it. I dont think a moderately lowered car on kw would get close to a stock UK alignment spec.

Sorry sir, but I said maximum height..not minimum height..Blame the Germans for the confusion, that's how it's listed in the manual. Car has finger gap all around if that helps. Complete opposite of slammed.
And yes, I did have the alignment re-dialed in by a family member who works at Honda a few days after the coil-overs were installed.

Mr. Williams; I just want to try a new setup since my car gets aligned for free...Wanted some suggestions. Why run a stock alignment on a car that's no longer stock?

What don't you like? One thing I highly recommend is reducing rear to from stock or UK AP1 alignment specs. Try ~0.2-0.3 degrees total (0.1 - 0.15degrees per side).

Too much rear toe causes excessive tire wear, gives twitchy nonlinear weird handling in a straight line over any kind of bumps or undulations, and needlessly reduces turn-in responsiveness.

For camber, UK specs (-1deg front -2deg rear) are fine. Even up to 2.5 is totally fine.

Enjoy...

^thank you sir for those suggestions!
I just wanted to mess around with setups as it doesn't hurt my wallet when I want an alignment thanks to my brother working where he does...however the person doing the alignment is learning more-so so I run a certain risk when it comes to it being done right but I trust my brother to an extent.lol
I just feel like the steering is off when I went with the 215/45/17's up front..I miss the preciseness of the stock 16's.. Excuse my lingo, guess you would call that under-steer..but too my understanding bumping up to a 225 upfront would eliminate that?

i use agressive alinment and i like it:
front toe - out ~4mm in total
from camber ~2degr
caster ~ 6 degr

rear toe - in ~2mm
camber ~ 1.8 degr

turn in is very good and the car is real joy at twisties.

I think this is really good advice. I got KW V3's recently and after thinking about it, with my heavy front sway + KW's I shouldn't need to run nearly as much toe on my nonstagger setup. I was playing around with the thought of 0.1-0.2 degrees of toe-in, and I think the OP too should as well. Plus it'll be nice to have my tires last even longer.