Any alignment experts here? My car is a bit too low for my taste

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Yes the alignment will change, raising the car will cause the wheel to gain positive camber and it will toe out. You may still feel the car going straight if you do it evenly because the toe will be fairly close from side to side still. But it will wear your tires and cause erratic handling with the severe toe out.
Depending on your car it shouldn't cost much to align it
If you can't afford to keep doing it make up your mind about your ride height
As for adjusting it, solely depends on the design of your coilover. Whether it threads into itself and gets shorter/longer or height changes from preload.

>>16164657
Yea I'll change the height this time and I'll be done. I drive on the freeway more and more and I scrape everywhere at 70mph.
Car is S2000 with Koni yellow and Ground Control coilovers.

How do I precisely keep the height equal at all corners though?

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>>16164805
You want the height equal from side to side more so than front to back
A flat surface for starters
Take measurements of a common point from both sides to the ground
Also take measurements of common points on your coilovers side to side before adjusting. Consider leaving the left side slightly higher to accommodate for your weight
Keeping height equal is pretty self explanatory with the numbers in front of you.

>>16164833
Yea the ground is level. So you're saying try to get it as close as possible but there's no precise way to get it. And a tinny minute difference in car height at one corner will not eat through the tires as fast as camber/toe right?

>>16164833
You're in Socal? What shop do you go to or recommend?

I'm on the same boat where I have to drive up to Washington from SoCal. My car's exhaust has like an inch of clearance from the ground and scrapes on dips etc. I'm getting new coilovers today and will be raising it some.

I've only ever did the alignments myself using string. How much do alignments usually cost and would it be worth it?

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>>16166559
The precise way is by measuring using common points idk how else to explain it... kind of common sense man lol
As long as with you in the car you're within 1/8th of an inch from side to side it'll be fine

>>16166568
Yeah, that alignment rack is mine lol

>>16166601
Depends on the car
Standard toe alignment on all 4 corners will run you 60-100

>>16164657
>stancefag in charge of alignment

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>>16164657
>alignment expert
>camber is 10 degrees out
>his car spun out driving straight on a suburban road

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>>16166706
>>16166720
I wouldn't give either of your shitboxes the time of day, honestly ;)

>>16166727
We would we even bother going to you? We'd go to someone who has a clue on alignment

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>>16166731
You couldn't afford it

>>16166739

You're so predictable it's pathetic.

OR

You're so predictable you're kinda good at trolling.

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>>16166744
Don't take me too literally dude, you might pop a vein lol

>>16166727
I think I'll stick with aligning my own car rather than take it to someone whose job is only doing alignments, yet repeatedly demonstrates he isn't capable of doing them properly

>>16166739
Who's the Armenian guy in the pit, do they have to bring him in any time a car actually has to get aligned correctly?

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>>16166750
Lol don't get too salty there, Morty. I do a lot more than alignments
What I do with my own cars is my problem

Here's one you may like;
Got an LS3 innit

I want to take my car to get an alignment, but I'm afraid that those things they put on the wheels will damage them. I really want my wheels on when it gets aligned so I can be sure they won't rub at all, but I really don't want to risk damaging them. Is it safe to get it aligned with them on?

>>16166739
Do you give blowjobs with those alignments as well?

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>>16166766
As long as they're careful, it'll be fine.
Or you can find someone who has my set up, they clamp onto the tires instead of the lip of the rim.

>>16166760
Babbys first job
>Look at the cars I've seen while working in a field where you see cars!

>>16166766

>after over a century of cars, nobody has invented a way of aligning wheels without damaging them
>everytime a car with fancy wheels gets an alignment, they're damaged

Remember when they told you there were no dumb questions? Well, that wasn't quite true.

You're a dumbass.

>>16166760
>I do a lot more than alignments
Ahh I see what you are getting at, I'll check your shop out on Backpage

>>16166766
They aren't going to damage anything, I've put them on $16k ea. ball polished wheels without a problem, safe to say you Rotas will survive

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>>16166780
Hey man, it's definitely better than my old job as a freight broker.
I'm not afraid to admit I'm autistically passionate about cool cars and it makes my day to get to work on one I like no matter how minor or major.
I think you're a little bit mad :^)


>>16166791
Lmao

>>16166813
The C1 and the poverty spec ancient gallardo are the only cars you've posted that would turn my head.

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>>16166825
Damn, who would think that a guy who has been on a shitbox enthusiasm board for the last few years would be so difficult to please with cool cars?

>>16166842
You're not posting cool cars, you're posting nigger a kike cars, but I guess being a Californian you really don't have any perspective on race.

>>16166813
your dad has a pretty sweet shop man. tell him chris says hi.

>>16166748
OP here, what's your shop called? I'm in 714