GeGe6 Donating Members 1,978 Member For: 12y 5m 9d Gender: Male Location: Perth, SOR Posted 04/06/13 06:23 AM Share Posted 04/06/13 06:23 AM Can any body in the know tell me if this wheel alignment looks ok? Car is G6ET 2011 king springs ssl front/back. Just had monroe GT sport shocks put in 5 days ago. Hence wheel alignment. Before shocks after springs put in and standard shocks. Any input very much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senna_T Forged Member Lifetime Members 15,818 Member For: 17y 10m 9d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 04/06/13 11:30 AM Share Posted 04/06/13 11:30 AM They both look average... Looks like Bob Jane didn't shim the front end in the latest one, but tyre power managed less camber after lowering it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeGe6 Donating Members 1,978 Member For: 12y 5m 9d Gender: Male Location: Perth, SOR Posted 04/06/13 12:09 PM Author Share Posted 04/06/13 12:09 PM Car was lowered else where, let to settle in and then wheel aligned at Tyre Power. At this stage I still had standard shocks and Tyre power shimmed it, so I was told.6 months later (last week) had monroe GT sports put in and as I said waited 5 days and had Bob Jane do the alignment today.In your experience can you point out where the improvements should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senna_T Forged Member Lifetime Members 15,818 Member For: 17y 10m 9d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 05/06/13 01:33 AM Share Posted 05/06/13 01:33 AM Looks like Bob Jane didn't touch the shims on the front. I would look at getting the camber evened out both in front and rear. Would be nice to get the toe a little closer to even but sometimes the falcons can be a bit touchy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ello678 Member 38 Member For: 12y 9m 25d Posted 02/11/13 12:15 AM Share Posted 02/11/13 12:15 AM (edited) I've just had my car wheel aligned at Jax after getting Kings SSL and Bilsteins put on my car (bought them from Pat who was really helpful)Obviously the car had a fair bit of camber after it was lowered and I assumed that using shims would reduce the camber and Pat confirmed this. However Jax said they couldn't adjust the camber as the bolts weren't long enough to allow the use of shims (I.e if they used shims they couldn't get the nut back on) Is this correct?My car is still running the same camber as before the alignment, -1.49 front left and -1.29 front right, and he said it should be ok and to just check the tyre wear after a few thou kms. And obviously I don't want to buy a proper camber kit and get another wheel alignment unless I have to. Edited 02/11/13 12:19 AM by ello678 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratter Member 6,793 Member For: 18y 6m 19d Gender: Male Location: @ my laptop Posted 02/11/13 12:26 AM Share Posted 02/11/13 12:26 AM there is some adjustment room available for the shims with the stock setup but as things wear, get bent or even modified by lowering then this adjustment quite quickly runs out and it varies from car to car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ello678 Member 38 Member For: 12y 9m 25d Posted 02/11/13 02:57 AM Share Posted 02/11/13 02:57 AM Thanks ratter, it's only got 18,000 kms on it but as you said I suppose it varies from car to car. I just wasn't sure if they actually tried putting shims in or if they just assumed it wouldn't work. They adjusted the toe but I still feel a little hard done by as I paid for a wheel alignment and only got half an alignment, but what can you do. At least I should get better grip through high speed twisties! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kroozin Menace Donating Members 1,990 Member For: 13y 7m 25d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 02/11/13 03:11 AM Share Posted 02/11/13 03:11 AM I've just had my car wheel aligned at Jax after getting Kings SSL and Bilsteins put on my car (bought them from Pat who was really helpful)Obviously the car had a fair bit of camber after it was lowered and I assumed that using shims would reduce the camber and Pat confirmed this. However Jax said they couldn't adjust the camber as the bolts weren't long enough to allow the use of shims (I.e if they used shims they couldn't get the nut back on) Is this correct?My car is still running the same camber as before the alignment, -1.49 front left and -1.29 front right, and he said it should be ok and to just check the tyre wear after a few thou kms. And obviously I don't want to buy a proper camber kit and get another wheel alignment unless I have to.Horse sh*t..Pop the bonnet and look at the remaining thread on the other end of the 4 bolts either side of the engine bay.Chuck a 3mm spacer in the back and a 10mm or as much as you can in the front spacer and you will end up with about 8 degrees caster, and a bit over 1 deg. Neg camber if your cars roughly 330 hub to guard up front.Makes the front ends hook up quite well IMO.If you need to get "longer bolts" you could grab a set of UCA brackets from the wreckers, grind off the bolts, redrill the holes and stick some high tensile bolts in. Just tack the new bolt heads so they don't turn when ya nip em up.15mm flexy head ratchet spanner is the go if your gunna f*ck around with it, also you might wanna grab some flat bar at maybe 3mm x 40mm for your spacers. Slot your spacers holes with a grinder so you can slide in the spacers willy nilly.. Piece of piss you've got yourself your 'adj. UCA brackets'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratter Member 6,793 Member For: 18y 6m 19d Gender: Male Location: @ my laptop Posted 02/11/13 05:53 AM Share Posted 02/11/13 05:53 AM Thanks ratter, it's only got 18,000 kms on it but as you said I suppose it varies from car to car. I just wasn't sure if they actually tried putting shims in or if they just assumed it wouldn't work. They adjusted the toe but I still feel a little hard done by as I paid for a wheel alignment and only got half an alignment, but what can you do. At least I should get better grip through high speed twisties! unfortunately many shops are really just "Toe and go" style wheel alignments, not saying this is your case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellato Donating Members 2,713 Member For: 14y 1m 27d Posted 02/11/13 06:03 AM Share Posted 02/11/13 06:03 AM As Kroozin said. I shimmed mine up myself and with my car on SSSL I fully shimmed the brackets right up and came up with -0.7 camber. In saying that one side was shimmed already and the other wasn't, not sure if previous owner had this done or came from factory. Should at least be able to put a few mm of shims in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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