🔧 Technical DIY alignments

[WhiteKnuckle]

I was just looking at this kit to perform at home DIY alignments. The instructions are pretty clear and it seems easy enough to do. All you need to buy is some 3/4” pipe from a home improvment store. Seems like you’d be able to set this up and take it down relatively quickly.
This year I had thalmans set my camber at -2 front, -1.5 in the rear which was a good compromise for track and daily driving. Next year I want to go more aggressive for track days but don’t want to run that for the street and I don’t want to pay the money nor have the time to have my car at a shop after every event.
It would also be good to be able to check and see if alignment settings are holding after a track day.
Anybody do “at home alignments”? What do you think of the kit?
You’d also need to buy a camber gauge. All in you’d probably be around $150-160

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[sktchy]

Camber gauge and a couple of straight edges and tape measures will get you close but nothing like a laser alignment will. I've got a pair of plates even but it's so much easier to just out it on a rack and have it done than it is to fight underneath of somethin so it stays on a flat surface with the suspension loaded.

 

[Pro Stock John]

A friend of mine does his own alignments, sounds like you can to.

 

[Eagle]

Anything that doesn’t travel at highway speeds I align myself.

Prob is that the laser alignment racks can deliver great results - when operated by a competent mechanic which seem to be getting harder and harder to find.

 

[sktchy]

 

[Intel]

I just have a caster plates and a camber gauge. I set my mazda3 to 0 toe or toe out before the summer for track days. Camber is pretty set it and forget it on my car.

Strings are easier and a little more reliable. Its just something that takes a bit of practice.

A couple people I know uses something like this. Easy to keep packed up in the trailer

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And 2 people I know use wheelstands as it makes things a little more consitent and easier to make changes.

Also old style fishing reels

 

[Intel]

Also a neat trick I have seen is using one 2 of these fishing reels to keep the strings from becoming a mess.

 

[Ron Vogel]

I just did mine on the XC70 myself. Measured nothing, eyeballed the whole endeavor. Drives straight, brakes straight, tracks straight. I don’t really know how the fuck that happened, but it’s happy all day at 80.

 

[Pro Stock John]

Surprised an XC70 even needed an alignment.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Live in our area with these roads… you’d benefit from an alignment every year or two.

 

[Pro Stock John]

I've been to Grayslake you the roads are smooth like snake.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

I've been to Grayslake you the roads are smooth like snake.

I don’t just stay in Grayslake ?

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

I don’t just stay in Grayslake ?

But when you leave you use someone else's vehicle (cough yellow mustang cough)

 

[Pro Stock John]

Try the city streets in Chicago then talk to me.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Try the city streets in Chicago then talk to me.

Fuck that. I’ll call Shawn1112 and pay him to be my chauffeur

 

[Shawn1112]

I don’t just stay in Grayslake ?

Grayslake and the surrounding suburbs

Fuck that. I’ll call Shawn1112 and pay him to be my chauffeur

You cant afford my chauffeur services

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Grayslake and the surrounding suburbs

You cant afford my chauffeur services

*puts case of patron back on shelf*

 

[Jimy Bilmo]