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99mmcgsx
02-12-2001, 04:21 PM
With intrax springs, tokiko shocks, and 225/40/18 tires, I had my rear camber checked out. The prognosis was grim...about 3 degrees on one side, 2.5 on the other. Caster was way off too, which was really making my tires suffer. Yeah I know spare me the comments about intrax springs being not the best...! So I bought the ingalls rear camber kit for over 100$. Turns out this is for one side only. But the kit basically comes with an adjustable upper control arm mount and spacers to put between that mount and the fender wall to push the upper control arm out even more to correct camber. Well, needless to say, if you have a small camber problem, you can probably just use some thick washers and save about 99$ per side. I talked to ingalls, and they explained that they really got into the business through accident repairs...supplying body shops with adjustable suspension components in order to correct for frame damage. They moved into the "aftermarket" as kind of a second thing, and use mostly the same parts. This explains why the "kit" is only one side. So I would recommend going with a company that specialized more with simply lowered vehicles, and you can certainly find lower priced units than the ingalls.
For what it's worth, the ingalls kit was pretty high quality, just not really what was exactly needed for a lowered vehicle.

Also, for all you out there with lowered DSMs...spend the money and fix your camber/ caster!!! Without the camber/ caster correction, my stock tires were down to the cords on the inside edge in about 12000 miles! (remember, caster problems are the main tire killer, not camber!)