To Those Who Have .. Subframe & Alignment

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I haven't done it yet ... lol

Trusting my tech (whos been very good with me) it's OK / within spec, so I have delayed any further adjustment until the MR spring kit goes on

I do have a real nice camber gauge and wheel adaptor, but I'm still on the search for an area I can trust as being flat ...

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I just use a small square magnetic angle gauge from eBay for $12. It can be placed 90* and then zeroed out. Clips right onto the rotor.

I have an older posh version of that, bought before such things could be sourced cheaply / easily ...

But I paid no where near what the same gauge costs now !

WD

Yeah, but that can't be zeroed out on a flat but non-level surface, right?
Pluss my little guy is only 2" square and can be easily placed with the wheel on. I just have to turn on its backlight to read.

(It's not a contest, I know.)

There is a zero button.

I also built a zeroing function into the wheel adaptor that I made.

I’ve no problem with the critique - there were very few other options at the time I bought it, truth be known and if I was doing it again ‘today’, I would probably just use inclinometer on the iPhone … lol

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Well I have been messing around with wheel offsets and when I realised how much camber affected fitment, I needed to know what my baseline was - so I dug out my gauge.

Here are a few pictures of what I did with it, and the adapter I made to take a reading off the wheel edge (assuming the wheel isn’t bent …).

For info, my GT PP1 MR with the factory set up (be it a rebuilt and centralised rear end) is measuring 1.4 up front and 1.5 at the rear.

Another forum users M1 non HP (again, factory settings with a centralised rear end) is 1.3 in the front and rear.

For anyone interested, here is the setup I made, which will suit 13” to 22” wheels :

Yes, I updated it to blue as I was getting done blue ano done for the other car :

The housing magnets onto my wheel adapter (plated steel disk), and the gauge magnets into the housing (ground steel base on the level / magnets embedded in the ally housing) :

It’s useful the gauge comes out, it actually came in real handy today for the last bits in the en-suite !

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