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The shop couldn't align my Z. With the camber maxed out (.1 or .2 more negative than the most negative setting called for in the FSM) the caster was WAY off. Everytime they'd adjust one it would whack the other out. It was a young guy, and I don't think he knew what he was doing, but the shop owner didn't either. To get my caster to the bottom of the FSM spec, he ran the wheels all the way back HARD into the freakin' rear of the wheel well! What a moron. Then the shop owner comes over and is yelling that that is how it is supposed to be!? It was like arguing with a 2 year old; you couldn't win. He said it couldn't be aligned because the tension rods and control arms weren't made by the same company, lol. Anyway, I said get my wheels back in the center of the arches where they belong. The guy tried to set the caster as best he could, but it was still fully 50% less than the minimum spec, as I recall. I think spec was 9-12? It is at 6 on one side and 7 on the other right now I *think*. Anyway, it is darty as hell and tracks road grooves like no-one's business. Sure it's a sportscar, but when you aren't tracking it, that just makes the car unpleasant to drive. You can't relax, you have to continually tweak the steering or it wants to dart around. So, I'm going to add a spacer to take out some of the negative camber and hope that ANOTHER shop will be able to get the camber AND caster in spec together. Or at least make it so that it's not so darty, and won't chew up tires.
Mike --------------------------------------------------------
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