Hey guys, so after getting an alignment and being told im in spec because the cross camber is good, im still not happy with the individual camber of the front wheels. I'm still on the stock strut mounts, so far no issues, at least as far as I can tell. But I've read that you can do a 180 the little notch on the strut mount, pointing it inward toward the engine, and that will take away some of the negative camber. Something like .5 degrees. right now I tihnk mine are about 1.8 and 1.9 or 2. dont remember about around that area. so getting back .5 would put me right smack back into spec.


Now mostly where i read that, it was referring to GT500 strut mounts. I think, I'm not sure if they may have also been referring to regular mounts. Found at least one place where it seems they did this with regular mounts and it worked fine. But I just want to confirm, can i do this 180 with the stock strut mounts also? And get less negative camber?





I will most likely get CC plates later down the road, but for now I can't spend much. As for alignment there's a possibility they may give me another one free of charge since its only been like 3 weeks or so. So this could be a very easy and free way for me to get this fixed temporarily. Any objections?
Again keep in mind I'm aware of the strut mounts probably going bad later and needing to switch.. so please just give input on my specific question. thanks.

 

Have you considered camber bolts?

 

I bought these originally with all the other parts. But they said they got it into "spec" without them, so i figured i didnt need them. Apparently spec for them means the cross camber. Because the camber of each wheel is not in spec. Anyway, I went back told them to fix it, and stil had the bolts, but when they explained how theyre installed with the grinding of the strut, i decided not to use them. Don't like the idea of grinding stuff. So I'm either going with the idea i mentioned above, or cc plates.


Btw, I may text you later... got some more questions about the rear end too lol

 

You can try rotating the strut mount 180* and see if that lessens camber, otherwise if you plan to track the car then CC plates is going to be the best safest bet.

 

Lol. Cool. Talk to you later brother.

 

Awesome! I will do this probably on the weekend. Got to replace some sway bar bushings too. Thanks

 

I guess I'm not understanding this. If you move the strut inward, toward the motor, you would be ADDING negative camber, not taking it away.

And if one wheel's camber is -1.8 to -1.9 then I don't know why they would tell you the camber is in spec. Sounds like the shop doesn't know what they're doing.

 

I'm not sure how to explain it myself either, I tihnk it's something about the strut mount being offset. And my bad if I said it wrong, but I wouldnt be moving the strut mount itself inward, just pointing the little "arrow" on the strut mount inward. basically do a 180. Matt did this with the gt500 strut mounts on his '11 v6 and it turned out great.


As for the shop, it was actually the ford dealer where I bought the car. Strange but I'm no expert so there was little i could say. Nevertheless I'm not comfortable with the negative camber so im looking to fix it myself, and just have them run there computer alignment machine.

 

Brandon is right on this one, should help you out with about 1 degree of camber.

 

I believe with the mount in the stock position it pushes the shocks out toward the wheel, when you rotate it it brings the shock in towards the motor more. I think the reason for the arrow is to show you stock orientation which won't help if your camber is at almost 2 degrees.