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Subject Socal Z's: went to West End Alignment today, specs...>
     
Posted by WXY on February 06, 2003 at 6:36 PM
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Message Darin Nishimura is the owner and does the work. I think it's a good place to go for alignment. One-on-one service, seems to know his stuff, nice guy. Sat in car while he worked to be accurate. He has scales for corner weights so you can corner balance if you have coilovers.

My weights:
Total-3480
minus driver-160
minus 10 gallons of gas-60
=3260 dry weight

Corners with driver:
990 963
789 738

Corner balance=50.3% / 49.7% not bad :)
Side-to-side=51.1% / 48.9% so what ?
Front-to-rear=56.1% / 43.9% not so good :(

Alignment for road racing:
Camber-Front -2.6 Rear -2.25
Toe-Front +1/16" total Rear +1/8" total
Castor-Front +8.5 Rear +7.8

All my adjustable stuff he had trouble adjusting, was seizing. My SGP tension rods had corrosion and couldn't be adjusted at all. Not sure why this happened. Going to buy new adj tension rods (any recommendations?) and maybe the new upper arms from Australia.

Darin does Supras, Porches, SE-R's, knows Mike Kojima. The Supra after me weighed 36xx. It had better front to rear balance, weighed similar in front, but heavier in rear. Some guys like that.

     
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