Has anyone tried these yet?

[JonnyOg]

They're obviously not gonna be great quality but it seems like a really good price. Basically half the cost of any other options for camber adjustments on cars without coilover setups.
What do you guys think?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Camber-Plates-E30-E34-E28-E24-Drift-BMW-/321133777883?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item4ac51093db&vxp=mtr

[FLG]

Honestly, i wouldnt touch em. Spend the extra cash and go with brand name plates, IE, Ground control..etc

[Swanny]

Not a fan of the fact that it says "for stock springs".

[bmwguy325is]

Id stay away from them.
Well unless you dont like yourself and your car.

[jlevie]

Not a fan of the fact that it says "for stock springs".

That simply means that they are for stock diameter springs rather than coil overs.

[Swanny]

That simply means that they are for stock diameter springs rather than coil overs.

Thanks for the clarification! I always feel like these low cost options always come with some detail thats vague such as the one I mentioned that they try to use as a disclaimer. Glad to see it's just my own ignorance with adjustable suspension.

I'd say if it came in under 100 then it'd be worth someone getting a set just to test out. It could end up like what happened with the ST springs, people are now selling their $70 shipped set for 50 dollars more + shipping.

[acolella76]

Haha, I have those same camber plates. They're great for the price! They don't have a whole lot of adjustment (but then again neither do any of the name brand plates) but they have as much as you could need. The bearings are pretty nice too. They've seen over a year of daily, autocross, and track use and are still tight.

[JonnyOg]

Haha, I have those same camber plates. They're great for the price! They don't have a whole lot of adjustment (but then again neither do any of the name brand plates) but they have as much as you could need. The bearings are pretty nice too. They've seen over a year of daily, autocross, and track use and are still tight.

Yesssss this was what I was looking for. Any idea on how much camber you can get out of these? Also how much did they raise your car?

[acolella76]

Don't know how much camber numerically, but you can get a good bit - likely more than you will use. They don't raise the car, they lower it. They are less than half as thick as the OEM upper strut mount.

[JonnyOg]

Any idea how much they lowered it? I have 9mm spring pads to compensate for the lowering so hopefully its not more than that.

[Northern]

They will lower the car a decent amount. If you run them with oem springs/ tophats, you'll need to space the lower piece down and use a countersunk bolt or stud on the outer stud location because it will scrape and bind against the oem top hat.

With bilstein sports there also isn't a lot of thread that comes up through the bearing, and if you tighten the strut nut down, your springs bind.

Also after 6 months the outer race one one of the bearings cracked, but theyre easy to replace.

You get what you pay for. After comparing them to the gc plates on my m3, I would never buy them again.

[Northern]

I received a couple of PM's asking me to elaborate on what I said about these camber plates, so I may as well copypasta onto this thread...

I bought them because I wanted a cheap camber plate and a lower stack height, I was running h&r race/bilstein sports at the time, with m3 offset CABs, no upper or lower spring pads.

I purchased the plates that said "for stock springs" instead of the ones that are "for coilovers", they came with a sleeve pressed into the bearing to make it roughly the same diameter as the shock, although there is about 2mm of difference. The bottom of this little sleeve came with a 3/16" thick washer which seemed to go on the shock between the spring hat and the camber plate. I also retained the wide stock washer below this to distribute the weight on the spring hat.

With this setup, you have very few threads on the strut that poke up through the camber plate, maybe 2-3. I used a low profile steel lock nut instead of the regular profile nylon lock nut that was there before to try to get some locking function, but there still weren't enough threads.
In addition, if you tighten the strut nut properly, the front springs will not move because the bearings do not turn as smoothly as the stock strut mounts. This will cause some binding of the springs and cause the wheels to not straighten out on their own and pull toward whichever way you last turned.
To get around this, I kept the strut nuts hand tight and frequently re-tightened them every 2 days or so. Downside of this is the constant re-tightening of the shocks, and the fact they're only held on by a few threads.

After a week or two of owning them, I discovered that the oem spring hat didn't clear the outer of the 3 camber plate bolts. They are Allen bolts threaded up through the camber plate with a washer under the head. I tried a bunch of things, but I eventually ended up countersinking the hole and running a countersunk bolt.

Even with all the washers and the countersunk bolt, the spring hat was still rubbing on the bottom of the camber plate. I decided to make some 1/8" spacers to go between the upper plate that mounts to the car, and the adjustable lower plate. I made 1/2" x2.5" plates and drilled the holes to fit the adjustment screws through. All of that was enough to stop the spring hats from catching up on the bottom of the camber plate.

Other issues I've had include having the outer race of one of the bearings crack and almost fail. It was noticeable by the inner race/ball sticking up out of the plate a little more than the other side. It happened after maybe 6 months of owning the plates. The part number is right on the bearing, and replacements are relatively easy to source and press in/out with either a press or large vise.

I switched to GE coils a month ago, so I removed the spacers, and all but one of the washers. I have more threads visible on the strut now, but if I tighten the strut nut properly, it still binds a tiny bit.

I have mixed feelings about them. They work, and they're cheap, but having a set of gc plates on another car makes me realize that they really are worth the extra money.

I typed this out on my phone so I dont expect it to be very comprehensible, fire back questions and I'll try to answer a little clearer.