The week is not off to a very good start. I was close but ended up missing an autocross yesterday because the car wasn't ready. I'm now installed the exhaust, finished out 95% of the interior, started retuning the engine, set the ride height (I was overthinking this in previous posts) and overall have the car drivable.
Today I took the car to get aligned and the bad luck started. It's a shop where lots of the load autocrossers go so I decided they would be good. They put it up on the rack and start the measurements. Right way the tool slipped on the front wheel and put a 1/4 gouge in the lip. Not happy about that at all.......
Good news right away is that the rear of the car is perfectly straight. Bad news is they can't get the caster/camber to the required specs. To get one close the other is way off. I call Speedtech to ask what they usually do and see if there are any pointers. After talking to Blake I found the crossshafts in the UCAs are offset ground. Apparently I put them in upside down because it's not mentioned in the instructions. Blake tells me they are thinking to update the instructions in the future..... Hopefully for other customers they do. Between this issue and pictures you can't even see, the instructions are much more difficult than they should be. I am a little more worried since they UCAs were also incorrectly labeled when I received them. I had to put the one marked driver on the passenger side and passenger on the driver. If I didn't they completely bound when cycling. I hope my common sense is good and its just a labeling issue with speed tech.
I pulled the car back off the rack and put it in the trailer. Tonight I need to flip the shafts over and bring it back to the shop to try again. Nice waste of 4 hours of my life.. When I bring it back of the shop owners is going to do the alignment so there is no possibility for more scratches. I hope they can get the specs Speedtech suggests. If not I'm going to be pretty pissed after spending so much money on everything.
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