I had read about different ways to dial in front camber without camber kits from this definitive alignment guide on BFc. Generally taking everything I read on the forum with a grain of salt, I was reassured that shimming out the front struts was something that's been done before successfully by the fact that bimmerworld sells a little kit for this very purpose. That kit is about $24 more expensive that just getting washers, so I headed to the hardware store.
I took my caliper and found 2 washers that were 1.19mm. According to that guide that should give me 0.5º more camber. I don't know where those numbers came from, but that's all I had to go off of. I will most likely get one more alignment with this setup and I will post to see what the change in camber is.
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| Before No Shim |
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| Shimmed |
Since I only wanted to correct the one side that was off by about a half degree I only shimmed the right side. It's so tiny that visually it doesn't look like it's going to change 0.5º just from that, but I will have to see what the actual camber is with this shim before trying anything thicker. And since my car mainly sees the track I don't know how this would really work for the street having permanent front camber. Then again I wouldn't really be worried about the most front camber I can get on the street. :P It's purely for the minimizing tire rollover and maximizing front grip at the track.
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Hey really nice to see you write such track specific write ups for E36. I too am needing to find more front camber. Did you ever end up aligning after this and finding out what sort of gains were yielded with this washer thickness?
I followed the guide from the link on bimmerforums. I have yet to actually test out what my thickness yielded. It seemed so small for .5 degrees, but I didn't want to do too much.
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