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Old 06-12-2002, 08:57 AM
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Default KMACs for more front negative camber?

I want to get more negative camber (for autocrossing) on my 225QC, and I see lots of folks here using KMACs to adjust out the massive neg camber (in the rear) when they lower their cars, but I just want to get more front neg camber.

What are my options?
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Default Uh.....No.....

Kmacs only for the rear. You can loosen the 3 nuts at the outer end of the lower A arm and move your carrier outward a little. They are slotted, but you won't get much change from this. Fully adjustable A arms in the works (Jason?) but not available at this time.
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Forge stated they would be dealing with the front after release of the rear arms.
Old 06-12-2002, 09:11 AM
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Default You would either need adjustable A-Arms or you would need

adjustable upper strut bearings, As mentioned, the K-Macs are for the rear only
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Default But KMAC makes camber plates for other cars that replace

the upper strut mounts. Why not for the TT?
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Default Upper strut design is different.....>>>

You'd have to cut out a lot of sheet metal and structure to make that work!
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Default No demand for front camber plates...

I talked to K-Mac representatives for the better part of last year, and they were working on a front camber adjustment for the TT, but decided that it would be too expensive and there just wasn't enough demand.

I have been able to achieve about -2.5 degrees of camber in the front by slotting both the control arm and the ball joint. I pressed out the studs of the ball joint, elongated the holes and replaced the studs with bolts/nuts. If you have a die grinder and some time it is fairly easy to do.

I thought about sending a set of control arms to a race fab shop in Texas, but at ~$325 for the spare set of arms, and then the $1000 for the custom fab work, it just wasn't worth it.

-Gary
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Thanks Gary, had already sent you an email about this
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