My suspension setup: Breakfast Blend for the angry panda

[Loren]

I think camber plates on a Yaris is severe overkill. With slotted strut bottom holes on the K-Sport kit, I can easily get almost 3 degrees negative. You could get another degree or so by using crash bolts.

Camber plates wouldn't gain you anything. On a car with a real hood, you'd gain ease of adjustability and reference marks for repeatability with good camber plates... but think about how much trouble it would be just to get in there to ADJUST camber plates on a Yaris! Seems like a huge wasted effort to me.

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by Loren

I think camber plates on a Yaris is severe overkill. With slotted strut bottom holes on the K-Sport kit, I can easily get almost 3 degrees negative. You could get another degree or so by using crash bolts.

Camber plates wouldn't gain you anything. On a car with a real hood, you'd gain ease of adjustability and reference marks for repeatability with good camber plates... but think about how much trouble it would be just to get in there to ADJUST camber plates on a Yaris! Seems like a huge wasted effort to me.

i dont' drive a yaris? ;)

[kngrsll]

Originally Posted by Loren

I think camber plates on a Yaris is severe overkill. With slotted strut bottom holes on the K-Sport kit, I can easily get almost 3 degrees negative. You could get another degree or so by using crash bolts.

Camber plates wouldn't gain you anything. On a car with a real hood, you'd gain ease of adjustability and reference marks for repeatability with good camber plates... but think about how much trouble it would be just to get in there to ADJUST camber plates on a Yaris! Seems like a huge wasted effort to me.

Another reason to go to camber plates is to gain some shock stroke. But to me, it looks as if we have great stroke length with the factory struts when the car is lowered (which, to me, is unusal in cars with struts.) My 240 had bottoming out issues when you lowered the car on stock struts, as did every other nissan or subaru i ever heard of. Perhaps that is a function of the body/chassis shape, the yaris is built kinda high, while the 240 was built very low and sleek, limiting shock travel.

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by kngrsll

Another reason to go to camber plates is to gain some shock stroke. But to me, it looks as if we have great stroke length with the factory struts when the car is lowered (which, to me, is unusal in cars with struts.) My 240 had bottoming out issues when you lowered the car on stock struts, as did every other nissan or subaru i ever heard of. Perhaps that is a function of the body/chassis shape, the yaris is built kinda high, while the 240 was built very low and sleek, limiting shock travel.

i measured 7" of travel on the koni's yesterday :D

[DeathBeard]

Originally Posted by Loren

I think camber plates on a Yaris is severe overkill. With slotted strut bottom holes on the K-Sport kit, I can easily get almost 3 degrees negative. You could get another degree or so by using crash bolts.

Did you slot the the bottom of the ksports or do they come that way? Any pictures?