Lastnight we had a lads car night.
We changed my spring isolators for ECS poly bushes and changed my rear bump stops for Powerflex.
The main mission was to put my camber shims on, but there is a major problem with the so called "Eibach" shims as I will will explain.
Once a camber shim is put in place behind the hub, the instructions tell you that you need to put a washer behind the caliper carrier to balance out the negative camber shim, otherwise the hub is cambered to a negative degree and your calliper isn't. So my friend Ste said it's going to be hard to get the exact amount of negative camber on the calliper if the kit doesn't provide a calliper camber shim.
This said I've spent 33.50 on 2 pieces of plastic and there asking you to use a washer!
We decided lets do what the Mk2 lads do and use some washers to ensure that the camber is exactly the same on the hub to the calliper. I'm sure metal washers are better than a wafer thin piece of plastic.
We measured the thickness of the shim at each side and used washers which mirrored the job that the shim would do. We put 2 washers at the top which were thinner than the 2 washers we used at the bottom to get around about a -2 degree camber.
Plastic shim, sending it back and getting my £33.50 back haha
This is how it looks once done.
As you can see the washers are doing the exact same job as the 2 shims would do.
Powerflex bumpstop vs dead oem bumpstop
ECS rear spring isolator poly bush in its home!
So the photo you have all been waiting for. It was dark so it's a rubbish picture but you can see the camber.
I will get a better on in the light today.
Big thanks to my mate Ste who did all of this for me.
On another note I have fitted a Carbonio air intake and whilst Ste was cambering my rear wheels I started sanding down my manifold even more.
