Camber

[driver]

Me again.... Lol, I hope I'm not annoying some of you with all my questions.

When stripping my mx5 car I didn't mark the camber settings, at the time I didn't even know what it was. Noob. I've researched camber settings for mx5 but can't understand it. Can anyone simplify if for me so I can do a diy job at home. Possible show me pics of each camber setting. Just need it drivable for track day. Thanks

[jon]

You can't reuse the marks someone else has on their wheel alignment bolts. You need to do your own alignment. It is unique for each car.

Toe, camber, caster need to be set together.

[gwnwar]

Set them all back to zero and have a shop alien front and rear..

[zeitgeist]

As Jon said they need to be adjusted together and won't be the same as the car once everything is taken apart and put back together especially with changes to bushings and subframe mounting changes. For understanding toe is how close or far away the front of the tires are from each other, camber is how close or far away the tops of the tires are from each other and caster is the angle of a line drawn from the upper balljoint to the lower ball joint. You want zero to a little toe in for stability but some run a little toe out for better response. Camber you want negative where the tops of the tires are closer together and caster you want as much positive caster as you can get equal side to side. Toe is et using the tie rod ends and adjusting the length. Caster and camber are set by adjusting the ecentric inner control arm mounts on the lower control arm.

The rear only has toe and camber settings to worry about and both are set through the lower inside control arm mounts.

I hope that helps some.

[gwnwar]

Like Jon and zeitgeist said just wait till last to set up the suspension when you have full weight of car on wheels..

[kiwicanfly]

Jul 5, 2016 2:45:06 GMT gwnwar said:

Set them all back to zero and have a shop alienfront and rear..

So that's what happened to ET 

[miket]

In case it's of use and you've not seen this yet:
mevowners.proboards.com/thread/8036/exocet-geometry-set