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Old May 3, 2003 | 03:13 PM
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Default JIC/Stillen rear camber rod question

I just installd an Eibach drop and am dealing with pretty bad negative camber in the rear.

I adjusted the stock camber rods via camber cams as much as they would go. I then adjusted the toe cams on the spring arm to bring toe within spec.

My question is this....

JIC/Stillen make adjustable camber rods but not an adjustable spring arm. If you adjust their camber rods shorter for less negative camber you seriously increase toe-in. Toe can only be adjusted by the spring arms.

There is some adjustment for toe via the cams but not nearly enough.

Are you stuck with excess toe-in if you run JIC camber arms???

I'm surprised no one has noticed this yet. Maybe no one has done their own alignment and seen how the suspension geometry works...

This could be a potentially serious problem unless I am completely missing something
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Old May 3, 2003 | 04:07 PM
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Not sure about the stock. But with my coilovers I was able to correct camber and toe back to spec.
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Old May 3, 2003 | 09:26 PM
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just to let you know my advice would be to not cheap out and only buy the camber rods. when you buy them you should buy the set which is the camber rods plus the traction rods. i have both, the traction rods allow for toe adjustments and give me a huge rang of settings, i also have the camber arms. i have the eibach kit and am actually right a -1.0 for camber (this balances the car more and gives me more grip for all out acceleration). i'm also running 275's on the rear and 245's on the front.

in other words buy both and you can adjust everything.
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Old May 4, 2003 | 09:42 AM
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2k3 I saw a post of yours that said you have alot of noise from the camber rods. Is this still true? I have heard nothing like this. Speaking of going cheap I hope you plan on doing a coilover set up of some kind. $1,100 for camber/toe correction for a $250 spring kit seems kinda silly.
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