Suspension Do you need to change control arms if you lower a MCS?
Do you need to change control arms if you lower a MCS?
Just wondering if you guys got adustable control arms when you lowered the MCS? Can you get decent camber adjustment with the stock bars?
I replaced the lower control arms with the H-Sport units (very nice pieces, BTW), but I think the factory camber adjustability in the 2005+ models would have been enough for me to get the final camber I wanted, even without the adjustable arms.
There's more range in the 05-06
than the 02-04. So it depends on how much you lower as to how much you need the arms. But if you lower a lot and need the arms, you'll run into suspension travel issues as well. Get some sort of strut tower re-inforcmenet, whether its camber plates, M7 plate, or a strut tower bar that does a good job there.
Matt
Matt
I got enough adjustment out of the stock concentric (sp?) bolts to get the camber withing spec.
Mine is lowered just about an inch and they were able to bring it into spec, but barely. If you lower much more than that I think you will need arms along with what Dr O said. I'm speaking about a R53.
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I actually don't know how much range is in the concentric
for the R56. OR if it's that much different from the later R53s. Please forgive some of the input, as when you find posts from the "Todays Posts" you see that it's a suspension question, but not that its for an 07....
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