Well, you have some issues. Your front camper is way off side to side. From the factory, it was not adjustable. You can make it adjustable by getting some special lower strut mount bolts, which will give you some adjustability. If you change both bolts on each side, you should have about 4 degrees total adjustment. Having -1.4 deg on one side and +0.7 on the other, the car won't feel right, and not handle well, not to mention poor uneven tire wear. If you don't drive your car hard around corners, setting the front camber to around -.25 deg should give you good tire wear, and good overall handling. If you like to do some hard cornering, going to -1.0 --1.5 deg will give you better turn in, and keep the outer edges of the tires from wearing. Now, caster is not adjustable from the factory either, but in order to make it so requires installing adjustable caster/camber plates as your upper strut mount. This requires modification of the strut towers. Your caster readings are fine for a street car, and they don't need to be as perfectly even as camber for the car to drive/handle just fine. If you were building an autocross or track car, adding about +3 deg caster would be desirable, since it promotes better self centering of the steering. The rears have no adjustabilty from the factory. It requires shimming, which is not an easy task, but can be done, again if you were going for autocross or track performance. Bottom line is I would get 4 of the adjustable front camber bolts, and have the car realigned after you install the bolts. On your front/rear diagonal damping issues, probably new shocks and struts are in order. If you want high quality rebound adjustable struts/shocks, I always ran Koni Sports, which are relatively affordable, and last forever. The aren't harsh, and you can crank the rebound damping up until it drives like a slot car, but it will be a little harsh at that point.
~Holland On Apr 25, 2016 14:21, "Steven Arguello" <stevenargue...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had the front wheels aligned, I replaced the rack over the winter and > wasn’t even close with my measured alignment. Steering feels great, but > everything else is out of spec. Attached is the print out that they gave > me. I’ve never messed with any of those adjustments and have no idea how > it’s done. i assumed it was all adjustable and that it was part of the > alignment, my guy disagreed (typical corporate shop mentality) and said > that he could modify the existing parts to make them adjustable. He went on > to try and sell me a complete set of dampers and springs. As I’m not sure > of how it’s done I didn’t pursue it, I was happy it was aligned. > Are the rears adjustable at all? > If the rims are bent, does that throw off the whole alignment? Mine are > all bent. > > Also, the front left and rear right feel mushy and unresponsive. The other > ends are rock solid, like they always were. The combination of soft and > hard diagonally feels terrible, it sort of yaws or teeter-totters > diagonally. So maybe I do need a set of dampers and springs, or is it > related to the camber being so off. It has Neuspeed progressive springs, > 1.5” lowered, not sure of the shocks. I was thinking of looking into > coilovers with adjustable dampers. I did a quick search and it looks like > there are a lot of crappy cheap options. Keeping in mind that I have a kid > in college and another 2 on the way, what can anyone recommend? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MK2-16v" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/DF8B8B35-0F13-4A81-9F55-F3F31C119B42%40gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MK2-16v" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/CABrbKBk%2BNW9Eh%3Dgmy8Rx1RDsuoVn_yRDNO%3DvAME5H7noUDxKMQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
