Alignment safety question

[acador]

I installed some TechnoToyTuning lower control arms this weekend in an effort to get some negative camber to help my understeer issue. I'm surprised that my eibach/tokico setup left me at zero camber in the fist place. The TTT arms seem well engineered by the way, but I started running out of tie rod end link threads before I could get the desired camber. I stopped at 1/2" which gave me only around -2 degree camber, but that seems like too few threads. What is the minimum amount of thread length that I can safely run?

[John Coffey]

1 1/2 times the diameter of the threaded end. You will probably have to dial back the camber to get that. In general its better from a suspension geometry standpoint to get camber from adjusting the upper strut mount via camber plates or slotting the strut towers. Pushing the LCAs out to get camber works and you do have to run a lot of scrub to get the Z to handle, but less scrub is better.

Edited June 21, 2011 by John Coffey

[acador]

Thanks John. I'll measure the diameter when I get home to see what that comes out to. I would have preferred going with camber plates but I couldn't find any that worked with the stock strut assembly. I assumed the tower was too small to allow for much movement. You also mentioned slotting the strut towers. Does that mean you can slot the factory holes without any additional hardware or modification?

[John Coffey]

Does that mean you can slot the factory holes without any additional hardware or modification?

Yes...