ItaliaBrat

Like that title says I need some help. New with suspension and not sure how to adjust BOTH the shocks and the collars where the ride is low but not eating my tires! I don't like the camber wear on the tires, I just want this thing to sit low, wide (using spacers of course), and the wheels as straight up and down as possible so the tire wear is even. The tires I have are 235/40/18 in rear and 17s in front. (Just for the winter) Summer time I have 245/40/18 G35 rims. Either way I need some advice, I am a noob when it comes suspension so any advice would be awesome! If anyone can put together a guide list one what I need to do first to last with the infomation I provided would be very helpful. I don't want you guys to think I want sh*t spoon fed to me, I just need to get familiar with this stuff with at least a guide put together before I just go in there mess everything up right before the sky drops 4ft. of snow this season so I need to do this pretty fast!

Edit: I am in a little rush for the reason this is my daily driver.

tunermt

well ItaliaBrat


This is amazing simply amazing!!!!
Here is what you need to do, it's actually VERY simple!

Take your car to the alignment shop!
If this is your DD and you are worried about tires just have them get the specs as close as possible to stock.

The only thing you need to do is set the ride height to what ever you like. In the future if you decide to track your car then you will want to do some research on corner balancing and alignment specs but no need for that now.

As for the snow if you intend to drive the car on ice/snow PLEASE do your self a favor and get some studded snow tires put on stock wheels. If you don't have the stock wheels get some steelies with studded snow tires. Trying to drive around in the snow/ice on something as wide as a 235 is asking for trouble.

ItaliaBrat

Thanks bro! I have a question though, as far as letting them adjust my ride to as stock as possible and doing the alignment when I do lower the ride to where I want it wont that affect the camber to where it angles the tires? I do not know how to set the stock camber as wide as it will go to counter this reaction either.

tunermt

Set the ride height where you want it before you get an alignment. If you change the ride height much at you'll need to re align the car. Camber is only one of the factor you need to worry about, toe as well as caster (if you have adjustable tension rods) will also need adjusted.

take some time to look around the web man there is more info about this topic on one Google results page than you'll know what to do with.

ItaliaBrat

Thanks! I will look in to it for sure

s14freak93901

toe will kill tires faster then camber.

xptnike

adjustable rucas and toe arms should help...