I finally got the rear camber plates finished and on the car, still need a little bit of tweeking to give max camber adjustment. My buddy at the metal fabricators made me complete strut tower adapters, so I now have offical templates for future sets. All togather I've got $99 in the universal adjusters and $15 in fabricated tops, and my bud threw in 2 extra top plates, his machine was acting up so it buggered up the edges. Hell you can't see the edges anyway cause their up inside the shock towers. I'll post pictures of them on the car, once I get a chance to go by the old shop tomorrow. racerb :cheers
Well I took pics of the new rear camber plates, but can't get Photobucket to work, so can't share the images. Still need to modify the sliders to get full negative camber, and also gotta locate the 14mm adapter top nuts. I have found 14mm coupler nuts for threaded rod, so if I can get my hands on some and see if they can be machines to fit, I'll try to make about 10-20 to sell. Most Cusco and Ground-Control camber plates come with these nuts, but they're nearly impossible to find seperate!! racerb :aargh
Hey guys, finally got my Photobucket account working again, heres the pics of the universal camber plate set-up on the rear of the GT-S. Oh and here are the custom coil-overs I built bolted up to the car. Still working on the adapter nuts, but did find a lnk to the Cusco ones, just got to find someone to get them straight from Japan!! racerb :cheers
No, if you look at the second picture, the top nut holding the strut rod in the camber adjuster is the Cusco adapter nut. I borrowed this one from my front adjuster, just to get a picture of it. It's used to take up the slack between the 14mm rod and what works out be about a 5/8" to roughly 16mm hole through the bearing in the plate. Using these plates eliminates the need for camber bolts, cause these bolts actually reduce the distance between the edge of the tire and the strut housing.
How much is it costing to make this set up, I want to replicate it for my st165 using the koni shocks
I bought the universal camber plates on Ebay for $99, then had the slider plates made for $15, and if I can find the top nuts already made. Should have less than $150 in the whole set-up and compared to sets made by Ground-Control, which sell for around $299, it's a pretty good bargain!! racerb :cool
Bought the Drop-Zone coil-overs off a member of this board a few years back. Then just modified the strut housings to except the new perches, lowered the perch hieght between 1"-1 1/2" on each. Mainly wanted the collars so I could choose whatever springs I wanted to use, in this case I'm going to be using Suspension Spring Specialists (Blue Coil) springs. racerb :driving
May have found a solution to my adapter nut issues, and it was right under my nose all along. The original nylock top nut for the strut, when turned upside down, nearly fits right inside the camber plate bearing. It would fit perfectly with just a little machine work, as would one of the centering lug nuts for the factory alloy wheels. I'm going to try using the machined lug nut from the bottom side of the bearing, with a machined top nut to lock the whole assembly in place. More updates to come!! racerb :driving
You have an awesome setup there! I would love to duplicate it when I have money again! How much is the whole setup, including springs, struts and perches, the whole thing?
I wish I could give you an actual total, but all the pieces I've put together have been either used, salvaged or picked up off Ebay. If I had to guess I'd say somewhere around $500, but at todays cost, it would be more like 800-1,000 dollars! Oh by the way, Tire Rack has the Konis on sale for $137 each. racerb :crazy
Still not that bad! I wish I wasn't unemployed right now! A few more months and i will have my new career! :driving
Now that I've got my top nuts and spacer pieces made, I was looking for a toe adjuster solution and found something. I found a set of rear lower control arms from a '95 Celica ST with adjustible center section. These arms fit the ST162 perfectly, all I'll have to do is weld on solid mounts in place of the large cam bolt holes. I'll post pics of all my bits and pieces in the next few days, and maybe have more parts to show also!! racerb :science
A few pics of the latest mods and new pieces for the Celica. Still a work in progress, so more to come! '95 Celica adjustible control arms I found to replace solid '87 arms. Modified lower spacer nut and modified/inverted top nuts with stock and mod nuts shown. Lower suspension as it looks now, adjustible arm soon to come.
