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Originally Posted by Boostaholic
The car drives straight when I point the steering wheel at 11oclock, and it seems to wonder a bit as I need to constantly adjust steering to keep the car going straight. I think the toe is off for sure.
I'm not sure if front beam is modified or not. When we bought the donor car it was already modified. The front end we adjusted the height with the bolt in the center of the beam. In order to accommodate for heavy battery(mounted where back seats are) we had to set the rear torsion arm to a much higher position and add coil-overs. I just greased the front beam and bled the brakes yesterday and inspected the ball joints. They look ok visually but I'm not a mechanics so I don't know for sure.
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Front beam is definitely modified, with adjusters which is fine. You've got standard spindles, so should be able to hit stock alignment settings without caster shims. Did you adjust the height by adjusting both the top and bottom adjusters, or just one? You should be doing both, an equal amount.
The rear upper shock mounts are not designed to carry any significant load, they are designed for the loads of damping only, not sprung weight. The proper way to accommodate for the battery weight is to swap out your torsion bars for a thicker set, available from Sway-a-way. If you are going to continue with the coil-overs, you need to make sure you have at minimum of a 3-bar Kafer brace, but much more preferably a 5-bar kafer brace.
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I took some pictures of the suspension just now, can you what's on it? Also I noticed something weird is the rear passenger wheel seem to stick out beyond the fender whereas rear driver is tucked in. Is it due to suspension settings or is the driver side rear fender 'pulled out'? I took pictures in the gallery.
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Pick a fender bolt, near the 'top' of the fender arch. Measure from the fender beading to the fender lip. It's far more common for one fender to be replaced, and of a different width dimension, then it is for the chassis to be that badly out of spec. If the fenders are the same, confirm the wheels are the same width and offset.