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Old 07-08-13, 02:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Dranom
if you massage it more the top part will buckle
Not necessarily, I stuffed a 12 -8 under the rear with no buckle.

Kaiylin - Your car is looking awesome man! For mine, cut about half of the inner fender, rolled flat, then a jack handle/baseball bat, plenty of heat, beer, and good company
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Old 07-08-13, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Zachsta
Not necessarily, I stuffed a 12 -8 under the rear with no buckle.

Kaiylin - Your car is looking awesome man! For mine, cut about half of the inner fender, rolled flat, then a jack handle/baseball bat, plenty of heat, beer, and good company
ah, gotcha, so you you just cut out the inner fender to make it easier to push out? At least it beats cutting the inner and outer and having to weld everything back up. Guess I'll have a busy weekend! And thanks man I knew I could go wide with the wheels when I saw your old setup. Just trying to get it so I can tuck these things.
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Originally Posted by Kaiyin
elaborate on the eccentric bolts? I'm intrigued and am bringing the car in to the alignment place in a few days.
the shop should know how to adjust them but here is something for your information. an eccentric bolt is offset to a washer, in which when rotated moves the arm in and out giving some adjustment.

what you want is to push the lower arm outward as much as possible to maximize negative camber but remember you can only go so far with the factory parts. loosen (not remove) the nut on the opposite side of the bolt and adjust using the bolt head.

like in this pic, just turn the bolt head so the bolt is at the outermost setting. in this case, the wheel/tire is on the left side of the pic. to max negative camber turn the bolt so it's at the 9oclock position.


not the best video but what you should get an idea of how it spins.
Old 07-08-13, 07:44 PM
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awesome, thanks for the run down! Yes, the alignment shop knew what to do, but go figure that after 13 years of mid-west winters, my rears were seized. Still at -5.2 or something in the rear. New arms coming from Megan Racing anyways
Old 07-08-13, 08:26 PM
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I posted this on the wheel fitment thread, but I'll post it here as well.
Doing some custom metal fender work & also tubed the inner fender well.

Rim specs: 18x10 +0 18x12 +10
Old 07-08-13, 11:24 PM
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Where can i get aftermarket or oem eccentric bolts from? Mine are stuck in there also!
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Originally Posted by sleepywgn
Where can i get aftermarket or oem eccentric bolts from? Mine are stuck in there also!
I think you have to buy new arms, which you should do anyways :X

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Old 07-12-13, 12:02 AM
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kaiyin what's the camber upfront?
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Old 07-12-13, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Dranom
kaiyin what's the camber upfront?
-7.5*, right front is like -7.8* I have yet to ask the alignment place to mess with the front camber. Next time I go with the new rear arms, I'll ask if I can get anymore with just the RCAs, and to even everything out. Toe is still easily adjusted to within spec
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Originally Posted by Dranom
kaiyin what's the camber upfront?
FYI, kaiyin has studio camber RCA version 2.0 which are i believe have a 1" offset, whereas my studio camber RCA version 2.1 is only about .075". i have yet to find out how that affects the final camber numbers, but of course that all depends on drop as well.
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finally got some tires and lowered the rear a little bit more.

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Got the rear where I want it. Now for shortened spindles to get the front to tuck.

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