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Alignment with camber bolts

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This is mine, guess I got lucky with it being the same side-to-side in the rear (no mods in rear). Camber bolts and top bolt changed in the front allowed up to around -2.5* but my alignment guy toned it down a bit. If I get aggressive offset wheels, I may have it increased in the front again
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This is mine, guess I got lucky with it being the same side-to-side in the rear (no mods in rear). Camber bolts and top bolt changed in the front allowed up to around -2.5* but my alignment guy toned it down a bit. If I get aggressive offset wheels, I may have it increased in the front again
What are you lowered on? Either way that's pretty awesome :)
 
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I'm jealous of that equal rear camber. I bought the H&R bolts to try to equal out the rear. Will be a couple weeks before I can use my buddies rack again.
Hopefully I can get the back to -1 on both sides.
I could only get -1.8 degs in the front. I'm happy with that, but I really wanted -2 though.
I was surprised by the amount of front camber I can get with the setup, I believe -2.3 was the max. Gives me room in the future when I do wheels. Hopefully those bolts work for you!
 
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Talked to my neighbor (alignment guy) and he said it had more negative camber in it, saw as high as -2.8. But -2.5 is what I asked for as I thought that’s more than enough for a street car (and I don’t want excessive tire wear)
 
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Paging @Neptune86 since it sounds like OP does his own alignments. Did you encounter any difficulties when you went for your first alignment? A couple of shops now have told me basically all they can do is measure the current specs due to the difficulty of adjusting the bolts while on the rack. I don't particularly want to keep throwing money at alignments while I play trial and error self-adjusting everything. Going to continue trying other shops but curious if this is common.
 
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Here is another data point. I installed front camber bolts in my new 2024 GR86 and did a quick DIY measurement of the front camber. It was about -1.5 on each side but I didn't spend much time trying to get a super accurate measurement. I just wanted to confirm that I had indeed produced some negative camber with the new bolts. Then I headed to the local alignment shop.
I asked them to give me as much negative camber in the front as possible and zero toe front and rear.
The final result was -1.5 and -1.7 in the front with zero toe and -1.5 and -1.5 with -0.01 toe which is close enough to zero for me.
Of course, the big question is what exactly did he do? It's entirely possible he threw it on the rack, made the measurements, and handed the keys back to me without ever picking up a wrench. Did he really try to max out the front negative camber or did he just accept what I had already done when I put the bolts in?

I asked the counter guy if I could have a two minute chat with the actual alignment technician and he said yes. I had a twenty dollar bill in my pocket for a "pre-service" tip because I wanted to advise him of the camber bolts and ask him for both a before and an after print out. But the tech guy never appeared. They presented me with an "after" data sheet, but they claim they did not record the "before" data. Anyhow, I'm satisfied with the alignment for a street driven car which will be used occasionally for local autocross events, but I wish customer service wasn't so damned hard to get these days. I still have that twenty in my pocket.