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Just had my wheels aligned and decided to stray from the play-it-safe factory settings by running some negative camber in front. Stock is 0 front, -1.0 rear. I have changed the front to -0.40", which is as far as it will go with standard components. This is just past the -0.30" tolerance. Toe is 0,0 all round.

 

 

Holy smokes! This has made such a big difference to the handling. The car scoots around corners without any understeer. Even full throttle acceleration will not get it to push the nose wide. Fantastic! I would strongly recommend this simple, cheap mod to anyone looking for a little more excitement from their Subaru.

 

Keep the tyre pressures even, front to rear. Running low rear pressure, as I have done to compensate for understeer in the past, can make the rear feel a little loose when combined with the negative camber.

 

Suspension and tyre size are all stock.

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I run pretty much -1.0 degree of camber all the way around, and it does make a huge difference in how the car handles.

 

Your tire wear shouldn't really be affected. I've been running those settings for a couple years now, and haven't had any problems. I do tend to rotate my tires about every 3000 miles though. It helps prolong tread wear.

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It came from lowering more then likely.

 

I was going to install camber bolts in the rear when I first lowered it, but I really didn't need to. The guy at the alignment place, loosened the strut bolts, wiggled it around to where I wanted, and then tightened them back down.

 

Right now, I have the whiteline adjustable lateral links, so I pretty much have an infinite amount of camber/toe settings for the rear.

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It came from lowering more then likely.

 

I was going to install camber bolts in the rear when I first lowered it, but I really didn't need to. The guy at the alignment place, loosened the strut bolts, wiggled it around to where I wanted, and then tightened them back down.

 

Right now, I have the whiteline adjustable lateral links, so I pretty much have an infinite amount of camber/toe settings for the rear.

 

Sup Man?? I meant to ask where'd you get your Lowered Springs??? I'm having a good time finding some!

 

Also I noticed you were from H-Town.. I'm from the SW Alief area! But live in Alaska for now.

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Hey,

 

How's it going. My springs are whiteline control lowering springs. I got them from teague's auto www.boxer4racing.com I ended up waiting quite a bit for them. Hopefully, MRT, whiteline's distributor out of Australia has gotten better.

 

You may want to give Dale a call at Teague's auto and see if he can still get them, and waiting time.

 

Wow, that's a pretty good jump from Houston to Alaska. I actually grew up most my life in Seattle, moved to Pennsylvania to go to college, moved to memphis for work, and now here in Houston. I live around the galleria area right now. So how do you like Alaska?

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