Camber adjustment on coilovers?
 

I've been looking at kw v3 coilovers and Tein street flex coilovers. The reasons I was thinking tein was the camber adjustments in the front,and cheaper price. I was wondering if I could use just the front camber adjustments and just get rear camber arms? This would be a lot cheaper than getting the KW CO's with the front and rear camber arms, alignment, and corner balancing. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

For the front you will still need upper contol arms to adjust camber, I think.

Save yourself the headaches and get a set of SPC camber/control arms for front and rear. I have the KWV3's and use the spc's. It's a great setup

So you're happy with the quality of the spc parts? And what about the KW's how are those as far as ride comfort? Is there a big difference from soft to a firm settings?

Please don't buy SPC!

I have had zero problems with my SPC. Not one. Alignment is still exactly as it was set. The only reason to go with SPL is if you're going to track the car. And, given that SPC is the most commonly used setup given that they make the Eibach camber kits as well, if they were that bad we would be hearing about failures all ther time, not just the handful we've seen posted.

Well the front can slip and the rear snaps so ask yourself this, if 100 or 1 rear has snapped, is it worth $88 to put something like that on a almost $40,000 car?! Or spend $100 or so more for the insurance and get the best of the best?

I agree around town you might be ok. OEM doesn't have that bend in the middle and material wasn't weakened when they cut the threads into the SPC for the adjustment. And if youre ok around town, what happens when you go on a canyon run and are hot dogging around having fun? You want that cheap $88 part keeping you off the side of a mountain? I sure don't!!!

If you have SPC, spl will give you 25% off their arm if you trade yours in. If you have an older version of SPL, they will give you 50% off to upgrade to their new stuff!!

SPC, eibach, ischium or whatever are all the same crap from china. You decide!

More than one is to much for me!

http://www.myg37.com/forums/brakes-a...t-spc-kit.html

Ok guy. They're just terrible. That's why they fail all the time. :rolleyes: We've seen what, maybe five or so break out of how many sold? Let's not do the typical hyperbolic bs about how crappy they are when the only failures have been on track.

thanks !

I didn't know SPL offered this. I will have to budget it before July ! ;)
I got a nice old SPC rusted one to change !! hehe

Yeah there's a noticeable difference. I run mine dialed in on medium, and I like it. Pretty stiff ride though, forget having a coffee or any other open beverage on the car. It WILL spill.

And my spc's have held up just fine. I'm at -4.5 or so camber now. Was at -4.8. Haven't had my car on the track but I push her through some serious abuse....

-4.5? Why?

The Teins street flex coils offer the camber adjustments in the front, and it says on the website that you can adjust from 0-3 I'm guessing positive camber. And positive is what I will need if I'm lowering it from an 1" to an 1 1/2" all around right? So I might not need the front camber arms?

Because lownslow

Low, but definitely not slow!!

I run 20x10 and 20x12's with 4" and 6" dish respectively. Need all that camber to fit the wheels.

Ah, makes sense. :facepalm:

Anyone?

Never saw a 370z with camber adjusting coilovers. I don't think they do that for us. It might say that on the site but it should also say like pics are just for reference, actual product my differ.

Camber adjustment on the top of the coilover, often called camber plates, is for strut design suspensions. We have double wishbone front and multilink rear, not struts.

You need front arms. Those are generic specs for that camber plate, but not all cars use camber plates to adjust camber. You can only adjust front camber via upper control arms on the 370z.

Here are your choices:
Doran racing, price = less than $2k
SPL, around $700?
Kinetix and SPC, around $2xx?
Cusco = non adjustable so don't bother.

Your absolutely right it does say for strut type front suspensions my bad. Wishful thinking I guess.

So to clarify if we are looking to go lower we will require camber arms in order to adjust camber for the front. Is it because there is no adjustability stock, not even by a half a degree? I'm simply looking to adjust the camber to about -2.5 in the front after dropping it maybe 1.5".

For the rear will I get by with camber bolts? I am only looking to lower the suspension maybe an inch?

Also at what point do you think I will need toe bolts?

I'm just curious about how much adjustability there is stock; Also for anyone who has experience, how bad did lowering your car affect your suspension settings?

From what you said you'll need everything! Bolts, arms, etc.

I will find out on Tuesday how bad a 1.5 in drop affected the front camber. My iPhone says it's neg 2 but take that with a grain of salt. My rear right now is neg 3 but I have spl rear camber and toe arms so that will be adjusted accordingly. Probably by June I will have the spl front arms but I track and do autox so that's why I am going this route. I would rather be safe than sorry and pay up the a$$ on towing the car home.