coolkid13377

I went to Soulspeed Performance on seeing some forum recommendations.

Pleased with the results so far, feels like I'm on rails again. Been rainy so I haven't driven much though.

zeroptzero

Some people tend to go overboard with rear toe, .20-.30 degrees is a good range so I'd say they got it right in that department. Everything looks good, but I would have gone with more front negative camber. Give it a good drive in the rain and it will be a good test for your new settings.

Slowcrash_101

Honestly it depends on the tires, you don't need more than .7 degrees of front camber on oem'ish tires. On an extreme summer tire 1-1.5 degrees is fine, obviously the more grip you have the more you'll need to exploit it with camber angles.

coolkid13377

Whatever they did, it was right. Feels like a completely different car.

Before the alignment, I could play with the wheel quite a bit at freeway speeds and not sway. Now that play is gone, wiggling the wheel makes me wiggle in my lane. Feels nice and precise. Not sure what setting in particular effects this, but it makes the car much more fun to drive.

Also before the alignment, slowing down on uneven road would cause the wheel to jerk in random directions. Not that it felt unsafe because you should be holding on the wheel anyways, but it felt janky. Seems like that's gone for the most part, but further experimentation is needed.

Also holds the road a hell of a lot better, especially when turning. When I'm accelerating through a turn, I don't get the feeling like I'm going to fly off the road anymore. Feels like I'm chained down.

I think I'll notice that I trigger my traction control less often too. It would trigger fairly often before.

Fokker

I wouldn't go with that extreme of a camber differential front to back, other than that it looks fine. I would dial the rear camber back to -1.5

Slowcrash_101

Rear is perfect to me, reason being that a staggered setup has more meat in the back so having a 1 degree difference front to back will only improve stability at your values. The reason you had play in the steering was your front toe, your rear toe probably had something to do with any feeling on instability, also your offset rear camber probably had something to do with your car pulling randomly when stopping.

I personally would have ran maybe -1.8 rear camber and a little more rear toe, less camber less toe, more camber more toe, but never more toe than recommended range, even then I'd only go to the higher range if I was running -2.5 camber or more.

zeroptzero

That's good to hear

I've got to get my car aligned before the Rock the Dragon event in April. I think that I will probably end up with settings very close to what you have. I'll close up the camber difference front to back by increasing the front up to 1 degree and keeping the rears around 2 degrees.

Emil St-Hilaire

How do these numbers compare to this?

https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/gallery/i...167-uk-geojpg/

I'm running those specs,but It's hard on the inside of the tires...

zeroptzero

can't see the specs ?

Emil St-Hilaire

UK Specs (AP1 only)

Front Caster 6º 45' (+ 0.75º over US Spec)

Front Camber -1º (+ 0.5º)

Front Total Toe 0º (no change)

Rear Camber -2º (+ 0.5º)

Rear Total Toe-in 0º 40' (+ 0.036 inch)