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So you want camber plates 'eh
In my search for the almighty coilover, I found someone who has camber plates for 1302 & 1303's. This company will be doing my coilovers also. Bolt in camber plates with spherical bearings. Coilovers also available.
Contact Ellis Engineering: Stephen Ellis Phone: 704.841.2614 E-mail: CarreraCustom@carolina.rr.com
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Re: So you want camber plates 'eh
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Those coilovers are not adjustable for ride, only height, but hey.. I'm poor! Sprint. |
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I emailed carrera customs and they sent me some pictures of the camber plates. They also have coilovers avaliable for $200. I am going to really look into these. The camber plates are going for $130 which is a really good price.
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The camber plates are sweet. I might break down and get them myself. I believe that price is each. For the coilovers too. Don't quote me. You might want to check that out. The whole ft. coilover kit is around $600 for Supers. The kits are nice. A few different dampers and numerous spring rates to choose from. Are you speaking of the rears?
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I don't understand how those camber plates work. I can see that they might allow the plate to be twisted, but surely camber is fixed by the trailing arm? See this thread: http://www.germanlook.com/Forums/sho...&threadid=1634
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What you describe about the control arms is right. That's how it's done on the 02s and 03s. You can ALSO use the TOP bolt of the late suspension to get more camber. This is done on the Golf, 924/944/968 who essentially share the same suspension setup. And YET another way is to install camber plates and they allow the shock/damper piston to be held in a particular setting you like, and since the piston and strut lies in the same axis, hence you get more camber adjustment. Of coz some plates allow caster adjustment too. Sprint. |
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Wait a minute.....
I think we're talking about two different things here. The camber plates that I was speaking of when I started this thread and the pic VW1303 posted are front camber plates for strut suspension. Mounted to the top of the strut tower with the mounting hole elongated to allow the strut to move back and forth to allow more or less camber. The pic posted from Eagle are for the rear and I'm not sure if they would adjust your rear camber anyway. They take the place of your springplates and caps to allow weight transfer to the torsion housing and not just to the mounting bolts. These are used when switching to strictly coilover rear suspension.
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It is because they have a round part on the side you can't see that fits inside the torsion housing. This means that the load is straight into the torsion housing rather than the 4 bolts of the 'cover'
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Here is a company which custom make front camber/castor plates but they are in Australia. Kits start from AUD350 (approx USD250)
www.mwmd.com.au/adjustable_strut_top_mounts.htm Tim |
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These rear spring plate replacemt things are ONLY nescessary on race cars or really really hi power cars. They do nothing to the camber, but you can adjust the toe in/out in a second. anyone telling ya different is only going for your wallet.
But if someone came up with a good idea to a front camber/caster adjuster especially for 69-73 Super beetles, now THAT would be interesting. |
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