Just doing a 7th grade word problem...
The GC kit is $500. Let's say you go through a set of tires in 2 weekends + whatver street miles, guess about 5k.
Add in the GC plates, you get about 3 weekends and 7.5k miles.
If you do a track weekend every 2.5k miles and a set of tires cost $800 from tire rack.
Tire costs spread over a track weekend/mileage...
W/o plates = $400 every 2.5K + 1 Weekend
w/ plates = $266 every 2.5k + 1 weekend
These will pay for themselves in about 10K + 4 track weekends...more or less. That's less than a year for me.
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Originally Posted by persian54
I have the Dinan plate, and if I could do it again, I would have gotten the GC kit
I could only max -2.6 camber one side, -2.4 on the other (couldn't get it even, and .2 difference wasn't enough for me to keep trying, damn alignment shifts if I eat too much food before driving anyways)
with GC, my friend was able to get -3.5
Dinan plate is $250, how much is the GC kit?
it's like $400 right?
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I've only seen them for $500. Where are they $400?
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Originally Posted by VictorH
GC kit is $499.
Richard why wouldn't you want to adjust the camber each time you go to the track? That's what many of the guys I know do and it's no biggie, I have the same plans with my plates. At the track if you don't have the camber at exactly -3 degrees or whatever, what does it matter? The race shop guys tell me that they don't even run the same camber on both side of the car depending on the track. And when you're done and put the car back to the street setting do you really care if you can only get the camber to plus or minus 0.2 degrees? Yes, there will be changes in toe as well but I really wonder if this will have anything more than a minor effect on handling or steering feel or straight line tracking for that matter.
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Usually, I have the shop align the car at min camber with a little bit of toe in on the front. Then slide the plates to max camber and check the toe. Usually go from about 1/8" toe in at min camber to 1.8" toe out at max camber.
I haven't really gotten far enough in my driving skills or put enough effort into my data logging to really get into different camber of each side.