Camer Adjustment

[Philr32]

Hi, I'm a bit new. I have a couple of questions:

I have an R32 GTST, does it have front and rear camber adjustment from the factory? If so how much roughly (i know it wont be alot).

If it does where does it adjust from?

I had a quick search (in google and the forum itself) but couldnt find anything.

I am planning to buy front and rear driftworks camber arms but just scraping up the last few dollars and cents and trying to avoid scraping wheels and tyres in the mean time.

Cheers

[GTSBoy]

No front camber adjustment. You can buy offset bushes to go in the inner and outer ends of the stock arms that will gain you a little (enough for street) adjustment (and also be much better than the squishy liquid filled rubber stock bushes that are probably stuffed anyway), or you can buy adjustable length arms of various sorts that can give you more adjustment but are not all street legal.

The rear uppers have a tiny amount of camber adjustment available stock, but again your choices for improving on that are the same as above.

You need to be able to correct excessive negative camber at the rear that results from lowering. You need to be able to add camber to the front to improve corner grip. More important than adding camber at the front through (in my opinion) is adding extra caster. Caster gains you more dynamic camber in turns without the extra tyre wear caused by having high static camber. Same path here - adjustable caster bushes or adjustable length replacement arms.

[Philr32]

No front camber adjustment. You can buy offset bushes to go in the inner and outer ends of the stock arms that will gain you a little (enough for street) adjustment (and also be much better than the squishy liquid filled rubber stock bushes that are probably stuffed anyway), or you can buy adjustable length arms of various sorts that can give you more adjustment but are not all street legal.

The rear uppers have a tiny amount of camber adjustment available stock, but again your choices for improving on that are the same as above.

You need to be able to correct excessive negative camber at the rear that results from lowering. You need to be able to add camber to the front to improve corner grip. More important than adding camber at the front through (in my opinion) is adding extra caster. Caster gains you more dynamic camber in turns without the extra tyre wear caused by having high static camber. Same path here - adjustable caster bushes or adjustable length replacement arms.

Yep I am buying camber arms, and already have rose jointed castor rods.

My situation is i have 18x8.5 front and 18x9.5 rear wheels both +38 offset the fronts have 235/40s and the rears have 245/45s. I want to lower the car but worried about scrubbing as the rears sit out of the guard by 20mm approx, i want to add negative camber for handling and for the wheels to not scrub and just for a nice stance. So basically i want to add as much neg camber as possible til i get my camber arms, i am also getting the guard lip rolled.

[MagicMikeZ32]

As you lower, your wheels will camber in. Not enough to make up for 20mm tho.

[GTSBoy]

And those wheels are defect bait.

[MrStabby]

There's downsides to too much neg camber - are you happy to live with them?

IMO basing alignment settings on looks or to address rubbing is sacrilege, but each to his own. I prefer to go fast than look pretty (also, i'm never going to look pretty so its not like i have a lot of choice)

[Philr32]

Mike, i was thinking the same thing.

I have standard wheels in case of defect but i would like to avoid defect, its only a weekend car anyway.

I'm hoping to find a good balance between the correct camber for performance and also for looks. I want my car to be a good balance between form and function.

Thanks for all the help and ideas/suggestions

[Philr32]

One last thing, how do i adjust tge standard camber at the rear? Sorry if its aleeady been covered

[WMDC35]

Yep I am buying camber arms, and already have rose jointed castor rods.

My situation is i have 18x8.5 front and 18x9.5 rear wheels both +38 offset the fronts have 235/40s and the rears have 245/45s. I want to lower the car but worried about scrubbing as the rears sit out of the guard by 20mm approx, i want to add negative camber for handling and for the wheels to not scrub and just for a nice stance. So basically i want to add as much neg camber as possible til i get my camber arms, i am also getting the guard lip rolled.

20mm is quite alot! you'll need majorly stretched tyres, prob more a 35 & prob over 4 or 5 degrees camber, both of these are illegal over here, or guard work or wheels that fit

[GTSBoy]

One last thing, how do i adjust tge standard camber at the rear? Sorry if its aleeady been covered

There are eccentric bolts as the inner ends of the upper arms at the rear. But they only give a smidgin of adjustment. Not going to really get you anything. And as I said, generally when you lower a Skyline you get too much neg camber at the rear, and you want to dial it out. If you carry a lot of neg camber then you get ridiculous tyre wear, very poor straight line traction (both accel and braking) and unless you are actually really hooking into corners and loading the outside type, poor lateral traction as well. If you do and have all that just to fit excessively wide wheels and tyres, then you need a straight jacket.

[Hank Scorpio]

Fk'n lawl at 245/45R18 tyres on the back.

Need 225/40's and 255/35's on there.

[WMDC35]

Fk'n lawl at 245/45R18 tyres on the back.

Need 225/40's and 255/35's on there.

if the wheels are 20mm out of the guards i doubt you'd get a 255 on there if it's low, prob a 225 which isn't recommended

[Philr32]

I'm going to roll the lip, keep the stretched tyres and add some camber, hoping I'm not going to need more than about 3 degrees of camber. If it ends up affecting performance too and tyre wear too much I'll get different rims down the track. Thanks for the input and feedback etc