Front camber?

[joe149]

Tried to search this one, but no luck. I'll be autocrossing my MS3 and would like to put Hoosier A6s on it. But Hoosiers, from my experience, want a LOT of negative camber. I haven't seen many threads talking about adjusting camber in front (except for the obvious -"use up the slop in the strut mounting bolts" technique). Also, in searching for parts online, I've only found KMac camber plates - I've used these before and wasn't that crazy about them. I switched to Ground Control.

This is my first FWD car. Do folks who autox or track use camber plates or other means to get negative camber? Or am I chasing the wrong thing here - maybe FWD cars don't want it? I'll post a similar post to the Autox-Track forum, but this forum seems to get more readers.

tia,
Joe

[Nliiitend1]

Originally Posted by joe149 Tried to search this one, but no luck. I'll be autocrossing my MS3 and would like to put Hoosier A6s on it. But Hoosiers, from my experience, want a LOT of negative camber. I haven't seen many threads talking about adjusting camber in front (except for the obvious -"use up the slop in the strut mounting bolts" technique). Also, in searching for parts online, I've only found KMac camber plates - I've used these before and wasn't that crazy about them. I switched to Ground Control. This is my first FWD car. Do folks who autox or track use camber plates or other means to get negative camber? Or am I chasing the wrong thing here - maybe FWD cars don't want it? I'll post a similar post to the Autox-Track forum, but this forum seems to get more readers. tia, Joe

Yes, the MS3 is definitely a "front-camber-challenged" car...

There aren't really that many options on the table for adding negative camber. The K-mac plates are probably the best option for stock hardware, but won't work with coilover setups without having some adapter plates made...

I think SPC might make some plates as well, but if they're anything like the plates that they make for the Ford Focus I'd stay away from them... They're a fixed design that also happen to cause binding and premature top-hat bearing failure...