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Old Oct 8, 2005 | 07:14 PM
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camber is only adjustable in the front. you could pick up some camber bolts for the rear. should only be about $35.
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Old Oct 9, 2005 | 07:05 AM
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There is some room for adjustment in the rear with out buyin bolts. You can get about -1.5 ~-2 if lucky. Have do -2.5 front and -1.5 rear you should like that for street.
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Old Oct 9, 2005 | 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by QuickOne
There is some room for adjustment in the rear with out buyin bolts. You can get about -1.5 ~-2 if lucky. Have do -2.5 front and -1.5 rear you should like that for street.
i have never seen anyone get those numbers on stock form. the rears do not have eccentric bolts. so the only way to adjust there is to loosen the top bolt and push on the wheel. that still wont give you near -1.5. with the eccentric bolts that come in the front the most i've seen anyone gain is -1.75. that -1.75 was also only on one side. to get camber that far in the front you would need camber plates. the stock components cant physically go that far.

for my street setup i use: caster front -4.1
camber front-1.75
toe 0
camber rear -.75
toe 0

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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted by fat angel
i have never seen anyone get those numbers on stock form. the rears do not have eccentric bolts. so the only way to adjust there is to loosen the top bolt and push on the wheel. that still wont give you near -1.5. with the eccentric bolts that come in the front the most i've seen anyone gain is -1.75. that -1.75 was also only on one side. to get camber that far in the front you would need camber plates. the stock components cant physically go that far.

for my street setup i use: caster front -4.1
camber front-1.75
toe 0
camber rear -.75
toe 0
Well dude sorry for you cause we got it on mine very easily. Maybe STi is different.
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 06:08 AM
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Hopefully the STi is different. The rear's on the Shaggin' Wagon would only allow for max -1.0 degree of camber. The front's only -2.0 with camber plates (due to wagon strut issues). My next purchase is rear camber bolt's. Looking for -1.5 for the rear's.
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by QuickOne
Well dude sorry for you cause we got it on mine very easily. Maybe STi is different.
yours must be special. i've never seen anyone with a stock sti get that. but i guess there is a first for everything. i had to modify my sti struts to get them where i wanted them. but who knows his might be able to also.

also how did you adjust your rear camber? no sti comes with a rear camber adjustment. kind of interested.

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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by fat angel
yours must be special. i've never seen anyone with a stock sti get that. but i guess there is a first for everything. i had to modify my sti struts to get them where i wanted them. but who knows his might be able to also.

also how did you adjust your rear camber? no sti comes with a rear camber adjustment. kind of interested.
The way it worked for me was to get EVERTHING loosened up and then get as much camber adjustment as possible and then tighten it all back up while maintaining the camber. You have to be paitent and work with it. I never said it was simple but I also had a professional driver doing the work with it. Don't know how many shops around here could or would be willing to do what it takes.
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by QuickOne
The way it worked for me was to get EVERTHING loosened up and then get as much camber adjustment as possible and then tighten it all back up while maintaining the camber. You have to be paitent and work with it. I never said it was simple but I also had a professional driver doing the work with it. Don't know how many shops around here could or would be willing to do what it takes.
i was wondering. that makes some sense. most shops wont go through that to get your cmber that negative. i usually set mine at home with level a ruler and a calculator then take it in for the toe. i have a setup for toe too but it takes too long.
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