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Ride Height Change Effect Alignment?

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If I change my ride height by cutting partial coil, I was told I would need an alignment job.

Which area of alignment changes during lowering
Camber?
Caster?
Toe?

or?

thanks.
 
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All of the above, by differing degrees depending on the nature of your setup.

By lowering it you would increase the amount of flat level camber, and affect the toe in. This is because of the way that toe is affected in mustang steering during compression/jounce (i.e. bump steer). Caster I am not so sure about however it wouldnt surprise me if it was also affected.

In summary, get an alignment after you are happy with the ride height.
 

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I have lowered about 10 cars and every one of them has had the camber changed because of the change in ride height. Now I know when the camber changes that affects the other things as well, but the camber is the thing that is affected the most.
That's what my experience has been. Bottom line get an alignment if you like your tires.
 
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when you lowered the car, and the camber changed,
did it change to more neg. camber or more pos. camber??

which way did it move?
 

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grego37 said:
when you lowered the car, and the camber changed,
did it change to more neg. camber or more pos. camber??

which way did it move?
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In every case, negative.
 
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XXBULLETSXX said:
In every case, negative.
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the top of the tire moves in cause you change the pivot point. this changes the way the tire contacts the ground... youll ware the insides of the front tires out pretty quickly
 
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