If I raise my front left spring 1/3-1/2" (on KW V3s) what in the alignment gets screwed up? (Everything is SPL.) If I raise the rear equally on both sides,
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If I raise my front left spring 1/3-1/2" (on KW V3s) what in the alignment gets screwed up? (Everything is SPL.)
If I raise the rear equally on both sides, what happenens? (1/4" on both sides)
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Generally adjusting your ride height doesn't have much affects on your alignment settings, if any. Think air ride. Those guys can change their height any time and still stay in alignment.nJust don't don't touch any of your spl pieces and you should be fine.
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iirc raising ride height on our cars (front or rear) will tend to stand the wheel up straighter (closer to 0 camber). The opposite of this is why people who lower there Z have to get camber arms, etc. in order to return to a reasonable alignment.
The other thing to remember is that when camber changes so does toe (this is all because of the suspension geometry). It is very possible that your ride height changes might not be enough to cause problems but I'm not sure.
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OP Pretty sure you'll change your camber setting and toe a little. If you are worried about it you should probably go get aligned again.
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I'm not THAT worried, just curious.
I wasn't able to have someone measure ride height with my fat *** in the car until after the alignment. In any case, thanks for your input!
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Explain why his alignment specs would get out of line if he's only adjusting height at the coil over and not messing with the camber arms and toe settings? I've adjusted my ride plenty of times in the past with coil overs and the alignment stays relatively the same #s. The one time I needed to get it redone was when my buddy ran it hard into the curb, but only my front settings changed a little while my rear settings didn't change.
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toe angle change is wat u should be worried about most. but if within 10mm height change, usually goes undetected unless u're like a race car driver. but ull need a big wing for dat.
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