Lemon's X47 track ST

[Fusion Works]

Wish we got the two door cars here. They look really cool. Reminds me of my old Honda hatches.

 

[lemonjs]

Tomorrow I'm booked in to have a full alignment and corner weighting. Last time I had an alignment was in 2023 and it was set up more for the road than for the track. The car rarely sees the road nowadays so a full track/race alignment is what I'll be getting. Last time the camber was limited by the slop in the strut bolts as the tiny hole in the strut tower prevented adding camber with the coilovers.

Today I widened the hole at the top to allow for more camber. I have seen some people on the UK sub that have opened the hole up almost to the bolts which allows access to the bolts on the camber plates, but I did not like the look of how little material there is. I decided to open it to 60mm so that the edges of the raised area still exist to add the extra strength.

How it looked before:


I made a small jig so that the hole saw wouldn't jump around:


I used a cheap 60mm hole saw. I was worried that it would go blunt trying to cut through but it had no trouble whatsoever:


Unfortunately I still can't access the bolts on the camber plate without dropping the coilovers out. Although the hole would probably only need 10mm more or so wider, so I may consider this in the future:


I maxed out the camber plates just to see what the maximum camber would be:


All back in and painted:


Oh lordy that's a lot of camber! I have no idea what it is at the moment, but if I end up with a similar amount of camber after the alignment I may need to add some spacers as the wheel now sits in way to far:


I'll follow up with what the alignment ends up being. I'm thinking 3-4 degrees of camber and a little toe out, but I'll leave it to the alignment guy to have the final say.

 

[Fusion Works]

Just cut the shock tops open enough to mount the camber plates on top of the tower. Then you can dial in what caster you want, within reason. Plus it makes the springs easier to change.