need castor and camber adjustment on 33 gtr

[ricknismo]

any ideas on the best approach...from where and how much

[jlnewton]

The Whiteline bushes probably represent best value if you require these adjustable bits. They are adjustable bushes. I have the whiteline adjustable camber bush at the front and works quite well and was easy to fit. Just a bit of a bastard to adjust during the alignment process. I put Cusco Adj caster rods at the front and the Cusco Adj camber upper arms for the rear as these offered greater adjustment range. Besides this, they look cool! The prices for the Whiteline stuff can be found on their page. Cusco or JIC bits are best priced from Takas, I think Greenline and Nengun could do these aswell. Cusco and JIC are quite $$$ though, but very high quality.

[ricknismo]

greenline?

Takas?

[jlnewton]

http://www.takakaira.co.jp/

http://greenline.jp/

http://www.nengun.siteblast.com/

http://www.whiteline.com.au/

[poop]

hi rick,

i've got a set of cusco adjustable rear upper arms for sale if you're interested. although mine came out of an S14, it also fits an r33 gtr (same product code) you can confirm it on cusco web site:

http://www.cusco.co.jp/02ctlg/2sus/sus_4.jpg

pm me if you're interested!

[ricknismo]

need fronts

[poop]

oic...too bad mate, couldn't help ya. was going to sell them cheap too...

[Gradenko]

Originally posted by jlnewton

I put Cusco Adj caster rods at the front and the Cusco Adj camber upper arms for the rear as these offered greater adjustment range.  Besides this, they look cool!

How much more adjustment? Last I checked they didn't offer more than Whitelines poly adjustable bushes. Thats 1.5 deg for the castor bushes and +/- 1.5 deg for rear camber (with two kits). I agree on the point about looks for the Cusco stuff though . They might be lighter than the stock forged arms too.

[jlnewton]

To be honest I can't remember. I would have to sift through the boxes looking for numbers in a maize a Japanese symbols. I do remember when researching the topic before lashing out that they had more adjustment, which is why I got the cusco rear camber adj, and cusco front caster adj. However I went the whiteline bush-type camber adjustment for the front as all the camber arms like cusco and jic only allowed stepped adjustment which didn't allow fine tuning to even out the left and right sides, although the combination of the two could be good, Bulk adjustment with the arms, fine adjustment with the bush.

One other advantage with the cusco gear is ease of adjustment, any adjustment takes 5 min, the whiteline camber bush at the front is a real prick to get at, and fine tuning an adjustment can take ages. That being said the caster bush and lower rear camber bush would be really easy to access so its probably an unfair comparison.

Weight is negligible, but is slightly lighter, and you also get to remove some bushes all together with the cusco stuff.

[franks]

interesting comments here guys. would be interested to know how much camber you were running on the front? i will be aiming for 2degrees i think

are all front camber kits difficult to adjust? or just the whiteline one in particular?

damn it, adjustable strut tops would make life SOOOOOO much easier!

[Gradenko]

Originally posted by franks

interesting comments here guys. would be interested to know how much camber you were running on the front?

Front camber was set with the poly bushes to -1deg40' LHS and -1deg43' RHS. This is working for me so far. Before the adjustable bushes went in, front camber was only -1deg, which wasn't quite enough.

are all front camber kits difficult to adjust? or just the whiteline one in particular?

The place that does my alignment deals with a lot of suspension work. They don't have any problems adjusting my front camber bushes when I come in. Front castor bushes are a bit diferent, they really have to installed by the people doing the alignment because there's no adjustment for them once they are bolted into place. Theres no need to adjust castor once its set so its not that big a deal. Mine weren't set to max castor at first but it only took the alignment guys 30min to fix.

damn it, adjustable strut tops would make life SOOOOOO much easier!

But that means using a Macpherson strut design, eww. I'll take our double wishbone front any day .

[ricknismo]

I got in contact with tyre select in Brisbane and they do stuff like whiteline and guarantee me the adjustment I'm after (No Sledgehammer allowed).

I'll let you know how I go.

At the moment my castors 1 degree out between sides and casto about 2.5 so it pulls like a bitch to the left.

Everything is straight so there is no damage or anything but come next wednesday hopefully I'll have nice -1.5 camber and nice even castor.....look out round a bouts.

[jlnewton]

I am currently running -1.5 deg camber on the front which is great for road use, even tyre wear and stuff. Went to Queensland Raceway on the weekend and really gave the sidewalls a workout. Next time I go out will try -2 maybe -2.5 with some semi-slicks and see what kind of corner speed I can hold. The A539s were melting nicely!

I have only had experience with the whiteline front camber kit so can't give you a comparison there.

[maccattack]

Jason,

Have you found the increased camber is providing better cornering. I know my car is set up with standard camber at the moment and have been toying with a camber kit to get out to about -2.

Even with the settings you currently have, have you found it better (cornering) than the standard set-up??