Camber Adjustment kit for Gen 1 Solara

[Pat S]

Man this thread is full of speculation and no fact. Does anyone know what the stock camber adjustment range is? How about where the "reccomended" setting is? Anyone know what the range changes to when it's dropped?

Pat

No speculation, FACT is the camber kit are thinner bolts, that are cheap like 15 bucks but we dont need them.... and let the pros deal with a alignment, just pay and let them handle it.....

Okay, I'll agree to to the following:
Fact: camber kits are thinner bolts
Fact: they cost like $15
Fact: we don't NEED them, but we don't need to lower the car either. If your lowering for looks, do whatever you want. But if your lowering for performance I'm not so sure you don't need them.

Specs for '00 Solara
Front Camber: -0.52° +/- 0.75°
Rear Camber: -0.65° +/- 0.75°

So your factory reccomended operating range is:
Front Camber: +0.23° to -1.27°
Rear Camber: +0.10° to -1.40°

When you lower the car your going to induce more negative camber. Now if you can adjust into the reccomended range. Then I'd agree that it is a fact that you don't need them. But if you can't I'd say you SHOULD have them. You can run outside the spec camber but if you run too much negative camber be prepared to wear the inside of your tires and increase stopping distance because you have less of a contact patch. You will however gain a great deal of traction in turns.

If you drive track events and autocross (as well as street since I assume nobody here has a dedicate track car) you're going to want to have max negative camber in the operating range up front. The back is different, If you want it to slide more (good in Autocross) you want almost no negative camber, if you want it to stick more you want more negative camber. All of these settings will also change depending on which rear swaybars/settings you are using.