i lowered my car 1.75" with intrax springs and now i'm going thru front tires like crazy. how have you guys fixed your camber? does anyone have the specialty products EZ Arm Xr camber bolts on their max? i heard its only like $30 for the front kit, thinkin about gettin it. any advice or other options?

 

dude, do you have any pics of you car with the intrax? i've been thinking about converting from eibach to intrax while i get new struts. how's the ride?

 

sorry man no pics. the ride is pretty good. not too bouncy or anything like that. handles well. i like them because it lowered the car really low. i chose them over eibachs because i wanted it as low as possible. it looks about as low as your car does in your pic, execpt the back is about maybe half an inch higher. the front is definitly that low. some people say that intrax is too soft but i havent had any problems. i'll hopefully have some pics up soon. good luck.

 

if not there is a few degrees of adjustment with the existing hardware on the car..

Fro

 

Hate to disagree with ya Fro, but there is ZERO camber adjustment on stock suspension. you must buy adaptors to modify the camber.

I bought some bolts through http://www.lightningmotorsports.com for about $27 shipped. Ingalls Engineering.
they will give you a <U>+</u>1 degree of adjustment on the fronts. there is also a rear kit, but it's about $130. the front bolts are very easy to install. takes about 10 min per side- other than adjusting the camber.
you can also go all-out and buy some camber plates that mount onto the top of the strut and offer <U>+</u>3 degrees of camber. they will also do caster adjustments I think.

If ya want, I'll sell you my bolts for $20 shipped. I still have them in the bag around here somewhere. ended up not needing them when I installed my eibachs. lemme know.

 

i don't know what i was thinking. I could have sworn that there was some adjustment. can you adjust toe in/out with stock parts?

Fro

 

toe is easily adjustable. all cars must have adjustments for toe. the 4th gens only have front because of the solid beam axle thingy, but since 3rd gens have independent rear suspension we have toe on the rear also. if you look at the bottom connecting rods, you'll see one of them has threads on it to adjust toe. the camber kits for the rear replace the solid rod with another threaded rod, so you can adjust toe AND camber with them.

for camber, the fronts use elliptical shaped bolts that when turned, change the alignment between the strut bracket and the spinple- thus changing the camber. this means that on the front, toe and camber are independent (so you can easily dial in more camber at the track ;-). the rear, toe and caster are both adjusted by one of two rods on the back, so if you change one, you change the other too.