c5 alignment
Melting Slicks
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FYI, the Corvette is lighter by about 75lbs than the M3.....but as both my cars show, smaller tires/rims and also strut front suspension can use much more camber effectively. But the setup on the Vette (from pFadt couple years ago) makes the Vette a much better and more responsive car then the stock Z06 alignment settings, its night and day.
Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '15
FYI, the Corvette is lighter by about 75lbs than the M3.....but as both my cars show, smaller tires/rims and also strut front suspension can use much more camber effectively. But the setup on the Vette (from pFadt couple years ago) makes the Vette a much better and more responsive car then the stock Z06 alignment settings, its night and day.
Burning Brakes
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Just got home from having alignment done on the 99 coupe. Couldn't be happier. Anyone in the Treasure Coast area needing alignment or break work done, Hickman's in Ft. Pierce Fl. is the place to go. Toby is one of the best in the business, his attention to detail is second to none and at $77.75 it's a steal. Wish I had paid closer attention to the magazine with the early 60s vette that he put on a 2000 c5 chassis. Anyway, hope this helps some Vette owners in the area. I'll be taking my 02 Z06 to him soon.
Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '15
Toe in all around. A dash means negative or outward for toe. No symbol or a + means positive or inward.
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For many, many years, cars have run with a touch of "toe-in", therefore, when the new, digital alignment equipment was developed, they had to establish a "standard" to work from. Therefore, "toe-in" was chosen as this standard, and what is a "normal" setting, ie. "toe-in", is expressed as a positive number. Therefore the opposite of "toe-in" is "toe-out" and it's assigned a negative value, to differentiate.
Burning Brakes
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Took my Z06 back to Hickman's today to get it aligned too. Again, Toby did an awesome job. So, for 1/3 of what a local "corvette" shop wanted just to do alignment on my 99 I got both Vettes aligned and by one of the best suspension guys around. Thank you Hickman's and thank you Toby.
Melting Slicks
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I also DD'd it a bit in SoCal (we moved to the PNW in Summer of 2012) and when I first moved up here it was my only car for several months till the family, home and cars where shipped up end of summer.
As I said, its a STREET/Track setup......meant to make the car work better and not kill tires...
And these are Corvettes! Not a Camray or Accord or Prius....it should drive great all the time.
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Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '15
You have something working for your driving habits. Good for you. When you have a moment take a tread depth gauge and measure from inside to outside and let me know those readings having over 1* negative camber.
Enjoy your car. The OP wanted opinions and went with mine. After all I've presented many daily driven vettes that had -0.75 camber that had inner tire wear versus that supposedly doesn't. But again your driving habits will dictate tire wear as well.
And I listened to the OP and gave my experienced input based in what he said
Enjoy your car. The OP wanted opinions and went with mine. After all I've presented many daily driven vettes that had -0.75 camber that had inner tire wear versus that supposedly doesn't. But again your driving habits will dictate tire wear as well.
And I listened to the OP and gave my experienced input based in what he said
Originally Posted by theoldmusicman
I don't track the car at all and I'm not an real aggressive driver.
Last edited by mrr23; Nov 27, 2014 at 10:18 AM.