lemoldsnut

Having the 67 Aligned on Friday. What specs would work best? It is stock height with new basically everything in the front end and a JGC steering gear.

I tried searching but could not find any threads on it. Not too good at searching on here.

thanks
Larry

oldcutlass

Tell them to get as much positive caster as possible, .5 negative camber, and toed in .125 or 1/8.

lemoldsnut

Thanks Eric

tmaleck

If you're driving on normal roads, most alignment guys suggest 1/2 degree more positive caster on the passenger side. Helps account for road crown.
Tim

oldcutlass

Around here the highways are mostly concrete and level so that's not an issue. Also the amount of caster you can get out of a stock suspension is limited so I like to keep it even and live with the light pulling to the right on a crowned rd.

83hurstguy

The recommendation above will work great.

I put some cross caster in my old '83 and ended up taking it back out. It worked well on crowned roads but pulled on the level ones (and would pull you left towards oncoming traffic), so I put it back to equal caster on both sides. It was a great driving car with 5* caster, -1* camber, and 1/16" toe in, but you won't get that much with stock suspension.

RetroRanger

the original spec calls for negative caster IIRC correctly, any idea on how much positive caster one can expect w relatively stock suspension?

oldcutlass

About 2.5-3ish. Negative caster makes the steering easy for the blue hairs, sux for handling.