Progress Thread Diagnosis front end clunk (and more)

[JD1964]

I’m glad I’ve gotten a somewhat organized in the last few years because I rarely throw car parts away. Took me about 3 minutes to find my original strut mounts. I’m looking forward to putting these back on to see if it shuts the clunking up.

How can I modify these or the towers to get more alignment adjustment? Even a tad more would be worth the work for me.

 

[AeroCoupe]

Depends on what you need alignment wise. If you need more camber use bolts on the strut to spindle mount to get that.

What brand of CC plates did you have on it?

 

[JD1964]

UPR I think is what’s on there now.

I don’t think my needs are extreme but I’d
like to get some extra positive caster out of the stock mounts. Makes it easier to keep the car going straight

 

[AeroCoupe]

I will just say this as I’ve seen these cars butchered up on the top of the shock towers to get more caster. Just suck it up and buy the MM plates and move on. They are the best and most copied for a reason.

 

[JD1964]

Ive heard the MM plates are good. Although some people out there claim their MM plates are noisy. That rattle noise drive me crazy. If I have to sacrifice extra caster for a quiet ride, so be it.

The first thing I’ll do is put the factory mounts back in (unmodified) and see how it aligns. If I can get the camber right with the factory mounts, I’ll give the caster setting (whatever it happens to be) a try and see if I can tell a difference from raked back position its in now. I mean, right now in the UPR plates the top of the strut is pulled as far back as possible. So if the factory mounts move them forward again, maybe ill know a driving difference, maybe not