01-27-2008, 07:35 AM
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Alignment
Carlos - you might want to check with Steve Alarcon at Johnson's Alignment in Torrance. I used him to install my ROW M030 setup, and based on my experience and the comments of many others, he's one of the best in the business when it comes to Porsche suspensions. He might also have some suggestions on sway bar options that will work well with your Eibachs
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01-27-2008, 10:07 AM
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thanks geoff but there isnt anything he can do about the Alignment. Since the car is lowered, the stock toe arms will no longer be short enough to get the length I desire. I'll have to talk to delubozparts about his adjustible toe arms. Those would fix it. As for my camber... I'll live with it cause its very close to the acceptible amount of camber, about 0.02 & 0.01 degrees off.
Btw, I used a $75,000 Electronic Alignment machine so its pretty accurate.
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01-27-2008, 10:39 AM
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Dude forget about new sway bars.....wheels my man,you need new wheels.
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01-28-2008, 09:27 AM
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Ha yeah i do, ill wait awhile though cause getting wheels isnt just "getting wheels" i have to also buy the rubber for them and thats alot of money to spend on something that not everyone will notice so im goign to wait till i see something timeless as far as the style of wheels.
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01-28-2008, 09:35 AM
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As for my excessive Toe issue, im going to try to trim off some material from the ecentric washers to give me less + toe and more negative... I dont like the way the rear end reacts to bumps in the road as a result of the excessive + toe. The rear end will have a shimmy or wiggle when one wheel hits a bump...
for instance, the drivers side rear wheel hits a bump, the rear will sway to the left what feels to be about a half inch, then as the driver side wheel comes back to flat level road, the the rear-end will sway back about half an inch or less. and vis-versa if the Passenger rear wheel hits a bump.
So what ill do is trim some material off of the shortest end of the ecentric washers to get me closer to acceptible toe range.
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01-28-2008, 09:43 AM
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However i can just shorten the length of my rear Track-arms and that would pull the away the + toe i have but damn, its a Bit** breaking loose those lock nuts on the Track-arm.
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01-30-2008, 10:48 AM
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Ok well i re-aligned my 986 yesterday, it came out good, I ended up shortening the length of the Upper Control Arm (Track Arms) to pull the Hub further away from the Toe-arm, thus getting rid of that excessive positive toe and the rear-end shimmy i would get while driving over bumps...
I had trouble getting the front toe to match cause any adjustment i would make to the left side would change the right side alittle so i left it alone after 3 good tries.
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