Camber Adjustment on S13

Larry

Larry

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Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone knows about camber adjustment on the front of the S13?

The car is only used for drift events and not driven on the roads, so i was wondering about drilling new top mount holes? Has anyone any experiance of this?
 
I could do with some info on this too, so I can get mine set up. I won't be drilling new top mount holes though :eek: , if anything, then just adjustable top mounts :nod:
 
can you use off-centre eccentric bolts on the fronts like you can the S14's? they don't give masses of adjustment, but you might find it's enough if you use 2 per side? Depends how much you're gonna lower it....
 
Expensive way: buy Cusco, HKS, Tein etc camber adjustable top plates. Some might need a bit of playing with the work with stock style strut and spring.

Cheapish way: Buy camber bolts that fit in the holes that mount the strut onto the hub. Bit awkward to adjust when the cars on the floor.

Cheap way: Slot the upper hole of the strut/hub mounting bracket. Elongate it both ways (towards and away from the wheel) so allow for + or - adjustment of camber. Make sure you do the bolts up fookin tight.;)
 
Thanks for help lads.

I'd prefer to do this on the cheap. I've made up my mind (in the interests of science :p ) to do a home-made job on this, i'll let ye's know how i get on with it, or wheter it works or not!!!
 
Forgot to mention that my S13 sits so low that i can't drive it on the road, the exhaust catches on the cats eyes on the middle of the road! Doh!! :thumbs:
 
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Drilling new holes will probably be very very tough anyway, the metal which it bolts to is going to be VERY VERY VERY strong. We found this when smashing up a stripped bare crashed S13 shell for a laugh. lol Plus it would probably weaken the area considerably.

Rather than drill new holes I think ovaling the holes is a better idea like Steve suggested, I don't think I'd want to do it and you'd have to do the bolts really bloody tight to stop it from slipping back, and the studs on the topmount aren't designed to be that tight.
 
Rather than adjusting it from the top mount, i was looking at the top hub mount and i reckon i could get an adjustable one machined up fairly cheap. I think in theory this should do the same job for me?
 
Larry said:
Rather than adjusting it from the top mount, i was looking at the top hub mount and i reckon i could get an adjustable one machined up fairly cheap. I think in theory this should do the same job for me?
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Most definately will. Tein coilovers come with one hole slotted to allow more adjustment than the top mounts will allow.

Cant think of any reason why it cant be done to a standard style strut.
 
Which part are you talking about? Sounds like the S13 strut must be a different design, I can't work it out..
 
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Smashing lads, thanks for all the help on this, i'm going to strip it down and see what i can do, i'll let ye's know how i get on with it and whether it helps it or whther i make an ass of it :thumbs: :D
 
Ahhh yeah I see what you mean now steve, totally different design to my car so my brain was going "whaaat?"....

Wait, Steve, you have teins, you barsteward, no wonder you sodding beat me. Murph :mad:

lol :D
 
Sorry to be a spotter, but that doesn't look like Steve's, cos it has 5 stud hubs, and aren't they the D2 colour struts, I thought Teins were green?
 
Thats Little_Jims car Ben.:)

He PMd me wanting a couple of bolts so I nicked his pics.:D

Just lowered springs and Konis for me.:)
 
hehe :D I must admit, what with the 'bodgesport' sticker, I thought it would be a bit odd you spending all that money on Teins.
 
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