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- #Automotive alignment tools how to
- #Automotive alignment tools mods
- #Automotive alignment tools plus
Whatever you do, avoid those “Quicky Alignment” or generic maintenance shops, because those places will just rough it in to OEM specs, and that’s not what you want if generating more grip and cornering speed on the street and at the rack track is what you’re shooting for.
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#Automotive alignment tools how to
There are two ways to come at this, the first being a professional 3D alignment at a performance shop like NV Auto, which is equipped with a top-of-the-line Hunter alignment setup and knows how to dial in a proper high-performance street or race alignment. So you’ve bolted up the best coilover shock and spring package you can afford and have set the ride height and hopefully even corner balanced it, but you’re not done yet! You need a proper wheel alignment, since any change to ride height will result in a change in wheel alignment, and what you don’t want to do is start driving around on a messed up alignment and trash those expensive new tires. Just don’t go too low or you’ll start to ruin your car’s suspension geometry, a topic we’ll cover in a separate post.
#Automotive alignment tools plus
Plus with ride height adjustability you can reduce that heinous wheel well gap while corner balancing for optimum weight distribution. It’s far more important to buy quality parts than it is to build your car quickly.Īs for the specific advantages of a high quality coilover setup, we’ve covered that in a number of our FR-S stories and in our first stage of ASS2000 upgrades, but to summarize here, you get dampers (preferably with adjustable compression and rebound) capable of controlling higher spring rates, which in turn reduce body motion and thus improve roll control, which lets those stickier and wider tires you’ve invested in work their best.
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#Automotive alignment tools mods
We certainly understand when the wallet turbo can’t handle all these mods in one big step, though, so no judgement here if you’re still chipping away at this all-important set of mods on your own project.
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We pretty much always start with wheels, tires and coilovers, because these really do work together as an overall package and, when done right, give your car a ton more grip and style. One of the mods we do first to our project cars is a coilover suspension conversion, because nothing - except wheels and tires - transforms a car’s performance and attitude more than this relatively simple upgrade. Setting up my G35 on KW V3 coilovers didn’t just make it look better, it also reduced lap times by over 2-seconds once we got the alignment dialled in using Stillen adjustable camber arms and the DIY alignment tools you’re about to read about.