Hey fellow GRM'ers!
I'm looking to pick up a Quick Trick alignment kit and starting to teach myself how to do alignments on the weekend toy. One thing that I don't have, however, is a 4 post lift. I recently grabbed a QuickJack, which has been awesome, but I am looking for input/ideas on a platforms/stands for the 4 wheels, so that I can adjust toe, endlink preload, etc, with the suspension under load. Who makes something like this, other than the race ramps wheel cribs, which do not appear that they would work with turnplates, due to the cocave shape of their tops.
Thanks in advance for any help! Motor on!
There are a few companies that make hub stands, which is what it sounds like you're looking for. Fair warning --- they tend to not be cheap. If your or someone you know is a good fabricator, it might be better to roll your own. If you google "race car hub stands", it will bring up some examples.
If you try to roll your own, you'll find out why they're not cheap :)
There's a new generation of the Paco Motorsports hub stands coming, I think they're going to be a very good value.
Paco Motorsports Hub Stands are nice. You can get away with just a pair of them. I've been doing my own alignments on my Miata for a couple years now, and I do it a little bit of my own method that's probably not 100% proper, but it tracks straight and the tires have been fine.
Your other option is to build your own. Maybe a set of 6-12" tall platforms to set the car on. Put screw in feet so that you can level them all to each other, then just set the car on that with your Quick Trick alignment gear.
I don't seem to have any pictures of them being used for setup but I use the cribbing in the pictures below. When I made the tops I cut multiple pieces that I use for shims so that they're all the same hight. I set the scales and turn plates on top of them. I use a laser level to check the heights and as a ground level reference when setting ride hight and making other measurements.
