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Hi everyone

Just had the car back from the alignment shop (Fulcrum @ Marooka) and these are the final specs they derived at...

Rear
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Camber -2.35 L -2.10 R
Toe +1mm L +0.9mm R

Front
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Castor +4.22 L +3.98 R
Camber -1.95 L -1.76 R
Toe +1.1mmL +1.1mmR


Are there specs too agreesive for everyday driving with the odd occasional run up the hills? I've just spent a good amount on tyres (Toyo T1R) so ideally I'll be after a setting with best tyre wear and a safe alignment specs for when I head for the hills.

What does everyone recon?

Cheers
Minh

In my opinion it has far too much rear and not enough front camber. Also the front should really be running more castor. More rear camber than front is really a setup for front wheel drives.

Check out this thread where we went through it. I ended up going -1.5 all round and it felt great. I certainly wouldnt go much more just for road driving. I did take it to the track with these specs and it felt great but could probably go with about -2.0 on the front and leave the rear at -1.5.

My Specs(and I know they were within 0.01 because I did it myself)
Front
camber -1.5* left and right
castor +4.5* left +4.0* right
toe 1mm in each side(2.0mm total)

rear
-1.5* left and right
toe 0.5mm in each side(1.0mm total)

so for best wear out of tyres, would -1.0 all the way around be too subtle?

my tyres seem to be wearing quite well, but I do tend to throw the car through corners a bit. I guess it depends what type of driver you are as to how aggressive you set the car up.