Front shock mounts

[James Crivellone]

So I got my car aligned, and I noticed severe wear on my front upper shock mounts, so its time to look at replacing them.

while stock replacements are always good, does anybody have any input on aftermarket versions that are better then stock? cost is not really an issue, just not like 400 bucks or anything =)

thanks guys

[Spaz]

how much camber do you have?

if you want some more, or some less maybe invest in a set of camber correction/adjustable mounts. i know bmp sells them, possibly tuner and bav....other then that i don't know. oh and most of the time they come as urthane bushings.

hth

-cam

[e30evolution]

ground control camber plates are also shock mounts..... as well as the ones that IE has

[James Crivellone]

how much camber do you have?

if you want some more, or some less maybe invest in a set of camber correction/adjustable mounts. i know bmp sells them, possibly tuner and bav....other then that i don't know. oh and most of the time they come as urthane bushings.

hth

-cam

I have a little under -2 degree's in the front

[Spaz]

how much camber do you have?

if you want some more, or some less maybe invest in a set of camber correction/adjustable mounts. i know bmp sells them, possibly tuner and bav....other then that i don't know. oh and most of the time they come as urthane bushings.

hth

-cam

I have a little under -2 degree's in the front

i'm not the best at suspenison angles, and what you want/need, maybe charlie, trent or rob will chime in?

[DanGillan]

well, I had about -2.5 degrees up front, my car is a daily driver, but I have plans to autocross it next year. So, for the most part, I wanted to correct my camber, but also have adjustibility for autocross. So, since optimal camber for tire wear is about -1 degrees on an e30, i tried to achieve that. I got offset upper strut bearings and street camber plates from Ireland Engineering. The offset strut bearings either add .5 degrees positive, or add .5 degrees negative, you choose (depends on how you install them) So I installed them to give me half a degree positive. Then, the street camber plates either give you a half a degree positive, or 1.5 degrees negative. So I installed them and adjusted them on the allignment machine to give me full positive (.5 degrees) and as a result of both of these, my camber is now set at -1.5 degrees, which is almost perfect for tire wear, but it also gives me the adjustibility to go down to -3.5 degrees for autocross. I think its an awesome set up. I couldnt be happier. If you do the installation yourself (you have to rip out the whole front suspension etc. etc. etc....) which I did, youll end up spending $340 for parts, and whatever an allignment costs for you afterwards (you have to do one). I'd reccomend this set up to anyone....

[trent]

Adjustable camber plates are really a PITA if you do not have a good camber gauge to adjust them yourself each time. They are also a little noisy and can click when the bearings get a little old.

Depending on what you want to do with your car, I would run accident correction bushings (.5 degree offset). With these you can add a little more camber. On my old car I ran -3deg up front with these and -3deg in the rear and did not have any problems with tire wear. Yes, if you do massive amounts of freeway driving and NEVER rotate your tires, you will wear them out. But, if you are smart you will not have that problem.

HTH,

[surebimmer]

http://www.bmwbushings.com/BMW%20Camber%20Plates.htm

$129.99 sounds good.