My tyres on the front are wearing on the inside. I tryed to get a wheel alignment they said I need a caster kit. But I thought it was cause of worn out coil springs.The rear is doing the same thing cause the springs are totaly f@#ked! My rear end is pulling to one side heavy acceleration.. Is that because the machanic pulled out my rear hicas ram and didn't bleed it?? Any advice highly apreciated...
I'd say you need a camber kit for front and back (which I've got - rear yet to be installed..., inside of tyres slowly wearing away!) See Egg or Amec if you're interested...
pulling to one side my car was getting really sloppy on the ass end and other than the camber which was a problem i discovered that the rear passenger tyre was running on about 12lb air pressure as it had a slow leak, if you have low profile wide tyres it is quite deceptive visually as to how much air is in them, they look ok but have stufall pressure
It's a Camber kit you need The four arms will cost from $600 + installation and allignment. I've been there and done that. I got my front arms installed and supplied at AMEC, and the rear set supplied by "Street to strip", and installed by Tyrepower at morningside. Bank on roughly 1 hours labour per corner for installation.
A thing that is overlooked by a lot of people is... toe. Having to much toe-in will cause your tyres to wear quicker than camber. Some adjustable suspension componets and a GOOD wheel alignment is all you need
check out the group buy section dude, i'm running front and rear camber arm group buy.... The same ones amec and UAS sell... Price will be up today.
Do yourself a favour...get down to see Mark at Jax Tyres, Thornleigh (Sydney) and get a proper Zed wheel alignment. Spent thousands on tyres badly cambered and wearing excessively, before getting a spot-on cheap-as fix!! By 'cheap-as' I mean it's a bloody lot cheaper than going to a bunch of wankers telling you that you need "camber kits", and expensive other "fix-it" stuff...Nissan engineers are not really amateurs, you know, and a sensible, properly-done wheel alignment by someone who knows a bit about Zeds will save you heaps!!
BUT The Z32 has NO front camber adjustment and if your Z is lowered there is no magic fix. Cheapest alternative is to shim up the front upper control arm bracket. (but this is hit and miss) Adjustable front upper arms are a good investment. Egg
Just priced new kings springs from jax front and rear 1 inch lowered $240.. How cheap is that! $100 cheaper than any where else. I will get them to do my alignment too..
Lower ride = WORSE camber wear I wish people would do some basic research before lowering Z32s. Yes a GOOD suspension mechanic can effect some adjustments of both front and rear Z32 cambers, even if its done with a 20LB hammer. BUT lowering the car past standard makes the tyre wear FAR WORSE. essentially with the standard set up, kiss your new $200 a pop rear tyres goodbye within 500-800KMS
Re; Lower ride = worse camber Jason was asking for advice to begin with which could be deemed research couldn't it?
Camber kits and 4-wheel alignment They're what you need. Simple. Plus new tyres by the sound of it... A bit of money to fork out initially, but WELL AND TRULY will save you money in the long run. Otherwise you think about it... think about it some more and just keep pouring money into tyres!
LOL! I'm sure a good mechanic/maniac could effect some major adjustments to a 300ZX with a 20LB hammer! Thing is, that's only like MY WORST NIGHTMARE!!!
