Negative camber and compliments to Elephant Racing

[drsimonwong]

Just got an update from my shop regarding the alignment setting in my suspension revamp. Installed Chuck's decambered ball joints (and his polybronze bushings) and got an inital reading of :

Front -1.0 and -1.9
Rear -2.0 and -2.0

My mechanic then modified the left strut (can't remember what he said he did) and managed to get half a degree more:

Front now at -1.5 and -1.9

He said unforetunately as my '85 911 was hand built there is a lot of variation on the chassis of individual cars. Apparantly if they could line up to 0 degrees +/- 0.5 then they were cleared to pass inspection. This type of chassis discrepancy is unforetunately common.....a "Friday" as opposed to a "Monday" car.

He stated how impressed he was with Chuck's product as I'd be lucky to get -0.5 up front without them!

Foretunately the corner balancing went well with quite even numbers all around (perhaps they started to build it on Friday and finished on Monday....:-) )

I asked him what we could do to balance out the front more and perhaps ideas for future gains in higher negative camber numbers. He talked about a minor increase with camber plates/strut brace but felt without major chassis modification in a jig to straighten my car I was unlikely to gain much more in terms of -ve camber on the left side for a more even setting.

At the moment he's leaving it as he has set it stating the small discrepancy was inconsequential.

Any opinions on wheither I should leave it or drop the right side to even both up to -1.5?

Simon