What is the purpose of the camber kit everyone is talking about. I am looking to lower my car using Eibach.

 

your wheels tend to squat inward when you lower your car. Say you have zero camber like this |--|....then you lower your car and get negative camber like this /--\

Since alignments sometimes can't fully correct overly cambered specs, camber kits provide more adjustments to correct this so that your inner tires don't get worn out faster due to too much negative camber.

I believe negative camber is the proper term, not positive. Someone can correct me if I have this the other way around. I always get this mixed up.

 

this will cost more in the long run but as long as you rotate your tires (properly) every 3k-3.5k miles you should be fine (this is what the guys at nismo told me)

 

I was just wondering because people have been talking about it. i will have a set of winter tires i will throw on. thanks again.

 

that wont work, because of the camber the inside is always being worn faster. That means even if you rotate the tires then the inside will still be the inside.

I dont know if his tires are directional but if the are (most likely for the speed rating) then you can take the tire off and reverse it so the inside is now the outside.

The solution is 1, buy the kit, 2 buy new tires every year.

 

Well, when you "rotate" tires for cars like ours where the tires are different front and rear....you have to remount the tires from passenger wheel to driver wheel and vice versa. You're not actually moving the driver wheel to the opposite side..you're just unmounting the tire on one side and remounting it back in the same direction but on the wheel on the opposite side. If that makes any sense.

At least you can get a little more wear out of your tires before you have to scrap them.

 

the more negative camber you have, the more the top of the weel leans into the body. If you're dropping your car, without adjusting the camber, you'll have more negative camber the lower you go. Thus, if you're gonna drop your car significantly, you need a kit to give you more positive camber.

 

I just bought some Eibach springs for mine and was looking for camber kits to do all at once. Any thoughts on a good brand?

 

For the fronts I'd go with either the SPC's or SPL's and for the rears the SPC camber kit.