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healeyneil
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Negative camber

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Has anyone ever introduced a little bit of negative camber in their front suspension by moving the mounting point of the lower wishbone out by a few mm ? It would be easy to file out the hole, then weld washers in the correct place. As a road car I don't really want to fit adjustable struts and lose the insulation the std top mounts have. I just feel that mine almost has positive camber as it sits now
Cheers, Neil


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Re: Negative camber

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Has no- one ever tried this ?
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BertjeConti
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Re: Negative camber

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Yes, i did it that way, check my E12 tread:
look here
and here
for the full story
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healeyneil
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Re: Negative camber

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Thanks. That's moved more than I thought !
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BertjeConti
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Re: Negative camber

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Yes, i needed it because the new wishbones i used are 5mm shorter as the stock ones, bad reproduction.
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