zeroptzero

Just curious if anyone here has been running the UK spec alignment settings on their street-driven S2000 ?. I'm going in for an alignment soon and may go with those settings. If so how do you like the handling of the car with those specs, any issue with tire wear ?. They still seem relatively mild settings to me, so I don't anticipate any issues. The North American Honda specs are extremely mild IMO.

I was once told that some alignment shops set up caster to be slightly different from side to side to adjust for the crest that is designed in most roads in our part of the world. Not sure how much difference that makes.

I'll probably go with the UK spec but with less total rear toe, the total rear toe listed in the manual picture below is incorrect.

The U.K. specs are:

iamfob

I am too lazy to Google. What's the difference between UK Spec alignment vs. non-UK Spec?

Also any good recommendation for alignment shop in GTA for lowered car? My car is not slammed but a lot of places can't get my car up on their hoist

myflys2k

I ran the UK spec for a couple years. Car handled fine. The rear toe in that pic is right I think. I thought the uk spec was 1/8" total... Which that is. I ran slightly more toe than that in the rear last year and found the car more stable with 3/16" for an ap1.


Edit: Correction didn't see that the toe was in " and thought degrees. You're right Joey, that pic is wrong

zeroptzero

Thanks Nick, sounds like it is worth a try. Yeah they got the units wrong on the toe, that is snapshot from the UK Honda shop manual, so it is a printing error I believe.

The UK spec has more camber front and rear, it was supposed to make the car more stable on roads that are heavily rutted in Britain from truck traffic etc., same thing we get here. I think I'll go with these numbers if they worked well for you for a couple years. Thanks bud !

afzan

More camber will help in turns. UK roads are alot twistier than north america

LDubz735

Do it for the Dragon. You'll find it more stable than the NA spec.

zeroptzero

^ Yeah it should be a good setup for the dragon, I've got the smaller ap1 tire sizes, so I can use the extra camber I think.

darcyw

I am running UK spec...ish. Max camber front and rear with 1/4" toe total in rear.

Not an issue.

darcy

zeroptzero

Thanks Darcy, I think I will go with that. I was wondering if Honda's rear toe spec of .25" was total rear toe or for each side, but thanks for clearing that up. So basically 1/8th" toe-in per side.

myflys2k

The UK spec calls for 1/8" total toe. NA spec is 1/4" total.