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Originally Posted by Mvez
GC has a "street" camber plate that has a deep inset for the shock, just like the Bilstein one, so the shock shaft is still below the strut hole for max camber. Those guys are great, I just showed them the Bilstein one, and they included 60mm upper spring perches, and ensured it fit the shock shaft. They have a "short" stack version which gains you 21mm of travel over stock (Bilstein is 10mm gain over stock), so that's what I went with, but the standard height one works perfectly fine too, which matches the Bilstein unit (10mm of travel increase over stock) identically.
The car def drives a bit smoother on the street, and track performance is the same, but now with more camber for better tire wear. I thought about using one of their race plates, but this one seemed better for a dual purpose car, and was much closer in terms of design and stack height, so it's the best choice.
I can forward you my emails with them, and they can easily make one for you as well, for an exact fit like mine. I've been very happy with it, and there are plenty of track guys who use this one, who drive to the track.
https://groundcontrolstore.com/colle...t-camber-plate
Or like you said, you can just have another triangle base plate machined to allow for more sliding room of the Bilstein bearing. |
PM me if you don't mind. I'm a bit confused if they purely made an upper plate only and adapter the Bilstein bearing to it. I like the Bilstein bearing, everything about it - I think it's a work of art!
I'm also have a bit a mind blank over the increased travel. This would effectively move the spring stack down and potentially impact clearance between the tyre and lower spring perch. Or is the plate actually thinner meaning the opposite is true?
I have a Vorshlag plate here I used prior on OEM struts and am thinking about measuring/scanning it's outer dimensions then adapting the Bilstein hardware (set screw, slider width, bearing assembly to slider offsets, centre to centre, thread and tap for the allen cap screw)