Please forgive my ignorance but I am not too familiar with alignment specs...

I recently had a set of Hotchkis springs installed on my 2006 Z. After waiting two weeks for the springs to settle, I went to NTB for an alignment. As to be expected there were plenty of problems to begin with and all were correctable except for the camber on the passenger side of the vehicle - both front and rear camber were outside of the factory spec range by .4 degrees and were off from the drivers side by .6 degrees and .9 degrees for the front and rear wheels respectively. Does anyone see any kind of serious issues developing with the large differentials? I would really appreciate the help. Thank you.

 

If it doesnt pull to either side then you're fine. Camber isnt the big problem when it comes to reduced tire wear. If you had ur camber way off, then you'd expect 5-10% less tire mileage. Toe will kill your tires. You can loose up to 80% of ur tire tread within 1k miles if the Toe is far enough off factory spec.

 

springs can cause uneven drops side to side, and that's one of their limiting factors. A rear alignment kit will certainly help get things squared away and won't cost alot ($180 for the SPC kit from us, shipped. For the front, your only option is a set of adjustable a arms - personally I would not bother at this point on the car, unless you plan lots of track time as well

 

Thanks for the quick response. Do you think I would see any performance decrease from this set up or just minimal tire wear?

 

more predictable handling by having the same settings side to side, and reduced tire wear (and more consistent wear side to side)

 

Not trying jack your thread, but is a "thrust angle alignment" the same as a 4 wheel alignment?? The dealer wants $59.99, which i think is pretty good. So i'm sceptical if that's a 4 wheel. Sorry for my ignorance, not really up on alignments.

 

Get the SPC kit, you'll like it, I like mine. Buy it from Z1!

 

Sorry, one more quick question... So when you say more predictable do you mean "better" or an even feel from side to side?

 

To clairify - will my current set up hurt my performance?