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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Exclamation Alignment Problem

A local mechanic I trust is not able to get my ’87 into Porsche recommended normal alignment specs, let alone what a trusted source suggested some time back:
Front camber - 1/2 degree neg.
Front toe - zero
Front caster - as close to 6 degrees as you can get

Rear camber - 1 degree neg.
Rear toe - zero

I replaced front wheel bearings, ball joints, tie rods (turbo), sway bar bushings and Bilstein HD strut inserts into the Boge struts. Replaced rear shocks, sway bar bushings and spring plate bushings (Weltmeister Neatrix) and reset ride height by indexing torsion bars and tweaking the spring plate eccentrics. He says caster is too low in front, the right side is worse, and rear toe is 5/16” off resulting in a pull to the right. The car drove well until we reset ride height, but it was too high after replacing the shocks. We used the ground-to-fender lip method, 25.5” front and 25” rear. Any ideas of what to try next would be appreciated.
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'87 Carrera Coupe
Venetian Blue Metallic
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