Slotted bilsteins

[Louis]

Had a world of problems with alignment of my 182 recently. I'm running bilstein b14s which have a slotted top hole. I also bought some eibach camber bolts to help with adjustment. Because of the slot this made it really difficult to align as turning the camber bolt did nothing as it just slipped on the slot, think I ended up with another 6 degrees of camber at one point!

Car then needed to be jacked up and the camber adjusted then resettled before fine tuning again. Took hours and I'm still not confident everything is setup right!

If I was to remove the camber bolts how much camber would I get just from the slots?

Or would it be a good idea to have a washer welded over the slot then camber bolts to adjust?

 

[JamesBryan]

Go back to standard bolts in the top, slide it to where you want and wang it up nice and tight.

 

[Usr117063]

Wouldnt the slots give enough camber as they are? Unless you wanted -3 or more then as James said

 

[Louis]

I'm only after -1 30. Just worried about the same issue with having to jack the car up to get less camber if it's goes too much which defeats the purpose!

 

[JamesBryan]

This is where one of these with alignment done the manual way works best.

Digital gauge mounted to this...

 

[Louis]

This is where one of these with alignment done the manual way works best.

Digital gauge mounted to this...

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How much? Cost me £100 for alignment that doesn't feel right and I've already been back once

 

[Crayola]

Brad said you're a c**t, I told him to get you to slap standard bolts in??

He must just love rinsing you of your wares?

 

[Louis]

Brad said you're a c**t, I told him to get you to slap standard bolts in??

He must just love rinsing you of your wares?

Surely with standard bolts itd still be the same issue as he couldnt push the wheel back the other way when it went too far haha

 

[Crayola]

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Surely with standard bolts itd still be the same issue as he couldnt push the wheel back the other way when it went too far haha

All he should have to do is keep tapping the top of the wheel until its where it needs to be then wang it up tight

I blame you for being awkward and buying slotted shocks?

 

[JamesBryan]

How much? Cost me £100 for alignment that doesn't feel right and I've already been back once

About £170 ?

I've contemplated getting one, seeing how alignment isn't that cheap and now we could use it on the Clio my bro is going to race.

 

[leedsboy]

Brad said you're a c**t, I told him to get you to slap standard bolts in??

He must just love rinsing you of your wares?

Rubs his hands everytime he see's Louis pulling up!

 

[Louis]

Dont get why they're slotted anyway tbh. I'll leave it until the tyres are dead then shove normal bolts in and get it done again

 

[Kev@KAM]

Slotted for extra camber or its modified to fit the hubs?

 

[Crayola]

Slotted for extra camber or its modified to fit the hubs?

Horizontally slotted not vertically, they're dead weird. Just like the owner of em?

 

[Louis]

Camber slots. Presume OEM as they dont look bodged

Vertical slots wouldn't be a problem ?

 

[Battery Nonce]

I don't know why you're using camber bolts with camber slots. The whole point is that you can use standard bolts with it mate.

That will definitely be your issue.

 

[Louis]

I don't know why you're using camber bolts with camber slots. The whole point is that you can use standard bolts with it mate.

That will definitely be your issue.

Wasn't sure i'd get enough camber with the slots alone! Bought the camber bolts originally with the stock suspension but then got the billies pretty soon after.

Anyone know the max camber from slots?

 

[Brigsy]

Id bet that you will easily get -1.5+deg on the slots, if they dont allow enough open them out more with a carbide burr. I done my cup shocks myself with a carbide burr, set them up on level garage floor using some trigonometry to -2.5deg, with the original bolts torqued to spec its never budged even after 4x track days.