so I did an alignment on my car this weekend. I have a set of aftermarket caster/camber plates and I figured I would be able to get -.8 degrees camber without much problem. On the drivers side, with the plates in the maxed out position, the most I can get is -.4 degrees. I can get -1.5 on the passenger side. I've got about 150lbs of ballast in the car, the car is pretty close to level (within a 1/4"). I'm running Moog 5662 springs with 1/2 coil cut off, Koni yellow's, LS1 front brakes, 17x9.5 C5 rims. I took the rim off and loosened the strut bolts off and made sure the spindle was pressed all the way in the strut and then torqued the bolts back down.

The other issue is that the driver side C/C plate hits the brake master when maxed out. I ended up grinding/filing down the edges to get about 1/8" clearance now.

Any ideas? I can probably live with -4 degrees if thats all I can get. Caster I have set to 5.0 drivers side and 5.5 on passenger side. I haven't set toe yet. The car is mainly a street car, but will see some road courses this summer as well.

 

Look closely at the front wheels. I'd bet that the driver's front wheel sits "in further" than the passenger side when compared to the fender lip. I had this issue on my old Formula as well. Essentially the way this happens, as least in my case, is that the k-frame is not centered properly, with an offset to the passenger side. This pushes the passenger side a-arm out further and pulls the driver a-arm in, allowing for lots of negative camber on the side where the a-arm is out further...

From talking to a friend who builds a LOT of f-bodies for track use, he's seen this quite a bit to varying degrees.

If you're running road courses, I'd suggest that having things like camber and caster even would be more important than having the max you can get (and having one side much different than the other). I would also say that fixing the issue would be very important, as I'm assuming you'll want more than -.4*.

 

Just wanted to post that I got this somewhat resolved. One of the springs wasn't seated in of the top of the spring pocket and was jammed up inside the pocket. I took it apart, set it again, and was able to get the specs I wanted on both sides. At least it wasn't too hard to fix.

 

Glad to hear it wasn't what I was postulating.