My '13 Fiesta has 1.5 degrees negative camber. I would like to reduce it to 0. In order to free it up. I seem to remember in the dim past that there were tapered shims for that. I think it was on K cars.
My '13 Fiesta has 1.5 degrees negative camber. I would like to reduce it to 0. In order to free it up. I seem to remember in the dim past that there were tapered shims for that. I think it was on K cars.
Yep. All of us torsion beam peeps have to use shims.
Shine Racing used to have tapered shims available for VWs.
IIRC summit will have the tapered shims you need. Does your pyrometer say you need less camber or are you masking another short coming by not running enough. Some toe out (or less toe in) will also cure your under understeer issue without reducing grip.
Carquest carries shims.
iceracer wrote: My '13 Fiesta has 1.5 degrees negative camber. I would like to reduce it to 0. In order to free it up.
Why? Those twist beams flex a lot and will lose camber pretty quickly under lateral loads. The camber is also there to help alleviate the inherent tail-happiness of the design.
I think you answered your own question with your answer and quoting his original statement. "to free it up" 
^exactly
Some toe out (or less toe in) will also cure your under understeer issue without reducing grip.
Reducing grip is the whole idea!
Get a moar bigger rear sway bar.
Having owned the same basic car (Mazda2, the suspension is the same) the rear works pretty darn good for what it is. My understanding is that you can't shim the rear on this car because it messes with the distance between the wheel speed sensor and that makes things go bad. That's just what I've read though. Another option is to get the Mazda2 B-spec rear bar from Tri Point. You can adjust the preload on the bar and can kind of pull the rear together which adjusts the geometry too. Keep in mind that this makes the car tail happy enough that "it wants to kill me" as my friend said of his.
In testing the cars did run quite a lot slower on the straights when you put sticky tires on them due to the overall drag in the system, much of which is in the rear end. Not an easily solvable problem.
FSP_ZX2 wrote: Get a moar bigger rear sway bar.
This... and springs/shocks. Stiffen that bish up. It helped the SooperKia rotate.
Narrower rear tires.
the Fiesta ST is running less camber. I am just trying to imitate
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