In need of lowered legacy alignment specs.

[MarkSubi]

Hey everyone, I need to get an alignment pretty badly on my car but wants to know if anybody knows a sight that has the alignment specs for a slammed to lowered legacy or even if someone on here Already knows the specs. I'm rolling on Raceland coilovers also if that would make a difference.

[dodik]

is this for a BD? if so there is a sticky of what most people run just above this thread,

[Tanto]

I'm reviving this, because the sticky seemed incomplete. What sort of specs should a lowered DD BE be looking for? Would it just be 0's all around?

[bobbyjimmy]

Assuming stock bolts and non-adjustable top hats/arms.

Front - most negative camber you get (usually around the -1.5 mark), zero toe.
Rear - cannot adjust camber and toe, so abit of a compromise is needed, but zero toe.

[grayguy]

I had to use 2 sets of aftermarket camber bolts in the rear of my car to get them where I wanted. It is doable

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[Tanto]

Why does it need so much camber?

[grayguy]

It has almost no camber, basically same as stock now. When I lowered it as far as I did it had say to much camber

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[Tanto]

"Bobbyjimmy" was saying that I should go with as much negative camber on the front as I can. That's why I'm confused. I know that negative camber is a side-effect of lowering; I'm just trying to understand why I would want to keep negative camber if I can correct it.

[decke48]

Camber angle alters the handling qualities of a particular suspension design; in particular, negative camber improves grip when cornering. This is because it places the tire at a better angle to the road, transmitting the forces through the vertical plane of the tire rather than through a shear force across it. Another reason for negative camber is that a rubber tire tends to roll on itself while cornering. The inside edge of the contact patch would begin to lift off of the ground if the tire had zero camber, reducing the area of the contact patch. This effect is compensated for by applying negative camber, maximizing the contact patch area. Note that this is only true for the outside tire during the turn; the inside tire would benefit most from positive camber.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camber_angle

[Tanto]

Why would a lowered car need more negative camber than a stock one, especially for use as a DD?

[decke48]

You don't need anymore. You could keep it at the stock specs
-.5° + -.5 front -1.0° +- .5 rear iirc

[Thomistopheles]

If you can run stock camber specs without rubbing on a lowered DD, do it. If you do occasional racecar stuff with it (autoX, carving corners on weekends) then you will want to go more aggressive. My legacy is my daily driver and I use it for hooning, autoX, and scenic drives through the twisties... so it has a bit of negative camber. Rear is maxed out with eibach bolts due to WRX sedan struts pushing it in the positive direction, front could go a little further before maxing out the stock camber bolts.

Alignment specs:
Front -1.2° camber, 0° toe
Rear -0.9° camber, 0° toe

[Tanto]

Ok, cool, thanks!