So, some (small) progress.
Been going to physical therapy and hand/forearm has been feeling a bit better, at around 50%. Physical therapist says "do some stuff and go use it" so YOLO, here goes doing the same shit that fucked it up in the first place.
Thanks to Andrew for coming over to help.
As mentioned earlier, all it needs to be street worthy is a rough alignment followed by a real alignment.
So to start, I levelled the floor with 18x18 ceramic tiles with 18x18 steel on top (just ceramic without the steel cracked).
With digital angle gauges that you can set a reference level with it was not necessary to get exactly level, but I lucked out and it easily levelled to 0.0 in both directions without tweaking.
Put it on the hub stands and proceeded to set camber, then toe for each corner.
Despite this being a street car for the forseeable future, I still wanted an alignment that would be decent on track (it is the entire point, after all) so my target is -3.2 deg camber front with zero toe and -2.6 camber rear with a smidge of toe in.
Front was pretty easy, camber bolts were set to max negative and the camber plates were used to take it the rest of the way. Toe came right in line to 0.
Rear was a bit of a bitch. Factory toe adjustment is a toe arm with an eccentric, BUT it did not have enough adjustment range to correct for the camber, so I had to buy and install threaded toe adjuster arms.
The hard part was that toe very much affects camber on the back of this car so it was a constant back and forth of tweaking toe and camber until you hit your target WHILE making sure the thrust angle is still even on both sides.
Ended up with -2.5 driver, -2.6 passenger, and nailed the toe at 1/16 toe in each side. Thrust angle was dead even as well.
It drives very nicely as a result, definitely responsive and a bit darty from the 0 toe. The steering wheel is a hair off center so I may fix that sometime, but it doesn't bother me so we will see. Im happy with it enough that Im going to put off bringing it in to a shop for a 'real' alignment.
Ive been driving my kids to school in it and driving it to work and its been an absolute blast. Kids love it too.
Next up: The brakes are squeaking real bad at low speeds, I left off the anti squeal brackets when I thought it would be primarily a track car so I will get those back on and slather them in brake goop when I get a chance
Pondering the Trackdaze event at VIR in November, but will likely wait until 2020 for its maiden track voyage.
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Been going to physical therapy and hand/forearm has been feeling a bit better, at around 50%. Physical therapist says "do some stuff and go use it" so YOLO, here goes doing the same shit that fucked it up in the first place.
Thanks to Andrew for coming over to help.
As mentioned earlier, all it needs to be street worthy is a rough alignment followed by a real alignment.
So to start, I levelled the floor with 18x18 ceramic tiles with 18x18 steel on top (just ceramic without the steel cracked).
With digital angle gauges that you can set a reference level with it was not necessary to get exactly level, but I lucked out and it easily levelled to 0.0 in both directions without tweaking.
Put it on the hub stands and proceeded to set camber, then toe for each corner.
Despite this being a street car for the forseeable future, I still wanted an alignment that would be decent on track (it is the entire point, after all) so my target is -3.2 deg camber front with zero toe and -2.6 camber rear with a smidge of toe in.
Front was pretty easy, camber bolts were set to max negative and the camber plates were used to take it the rest of the way. Toe came right in line to 0.
Rear was a bit of a bitch. Factory toe adjustment is a toe arm with an eccentric, BUT it did not have enough adjustment range to correct for the camber, so I had to buy and install threaded toe adjuster arms.
The hard part was that toe very much affects camber on the back of this car so it was a constant back and forth of tweaking toe and camber until you hit your target WHILE making sure the thrust angle is still even on both sides.
Ended up with -2.5 driver, -2.6 passenger, and nailed the toe at 1/16 toe in each side. Thrust angle was dead even as well.
It drives very nicely as a result, definitely responsive and a bit darty from the 0 toe. The steering wheel is a hair off center so I may fix that sometime, but it doesn't bother me so we will see. Im happy with it enough that Im going to put off bringing it in to a shop for a 'real' alignment.
Ive been driving my kids to school in it and driving it to work and its been an absolute blast. Kids love it too.
Next up: The brakes are squeaking real bad at low speeds, I left off the anti squeal brackets when I thought it would be primarily a track car so I will get those back on and slather them in brake goop when I get a chance
Pondering the Trackdaze event at VIR in November, but will likely wait until 2020 for its maiden track voyage.