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I went to this shop as recommended by a reputable Corvette restorer. First the guy had my car for 3 days
Second instead off taking the time to adjust the rod ends and reattach them to the spindle, he decided to cut the clamps on the Flaming River rack and take channel locks to the rack rods...scaring them up
and move them out.
I will admit that the Breeze rods should be made with right and left threads to work properly otherwise I see no reason to go with these over the stock rod ends.
The front he set to 0.5 neg camber 3.75 + caster and 1/16 th tow in. One problem he had was that the driver side would not set at the recommend 1 deg camber because upper A arm would hit the coil over. In addition to that when you raise the car to simulate travel in the suspension, the front wheels tow out at least .5 of and inch. I'm know expert but seems like I will have a lot of bump steer...Yes?
On to the rear he said he set it at .5 caster and 1/16th tow. But if you look at the pass side the top of the wheel leans in about .5 more than the driver side. I spotted this right off and he said he was busy and if it was off he would correct some other time WTF he had my car for 3 days already. I got the car home and threw a 2' level on the wheels to check it and I now the tire pressure could make a slight difference and all but it should be close. Hell know I was right the two sides are totally different
To top it all of he quoted me $150.00 for the job and when I picked the car up the bill was $350.00
. I know how I'm going to handle him, but what I really need is some help getting this front end figured out. Seems the angle on the FR rack and the lower A arms are all wrong, they get farther apart as you get closer to the spindle. How do you fix this? I have sn95 spindles pin drive length arms Breeze rod ends, and FR rack with Breeze aluminum offset bushings with the rack all the way up. Help if you can please I,m trying to get this thing road worthy and already passed 3rd dead line, or goal rather.
Thanks Mike
[ December 06, 2002, 06:07 PM: Message edited by: ORANGE CRUSH ]
Second instead off taking the time to adjust the rod ends and reattach them to the spindle, he decided to cut the clamps on the Flaming River rack and take channel locks to the rack rods...scaring them up
I will admit that the Breeze rods should be made with right and left threads to work properly otherwise I see no reason to go with these over the stock rod ends.
The front he set to 0.5 neg camber 3.75 + caster and 1/16 th tow in. One problem he had was that the driver side would not set at the recommend 1 deg camber because upper A arm would hit the coil over. In addition to that when you raise the car to simulate travel in the suspension, the front wheels tow out at least .5 of and inch. I'm know expert but seems like I will have a lot of bump steer...Yes?
On to the rear he said he set it at .5 caster and 1/16th tow. But if you look at the pass side the top of the wheel leans in about .5 more than the driver side. I spotted this right off and he said he was busy and if it was off he would correct some other time WTF he had my car for 3 days already. I got the car home and threw a 2' level on the wheels to check it and I now the tire pressure could make a slight difference and all but it should be close. Hell know I was right the two sides are totally different
To top it all of he quoted me $150.00 for the job and when I picked the car up the bill was $350.00
Thanks Mike

[ December 06, 2002, 06:07 PM: Message edited by: ORANGE CRUSH ]