DIY: SPC Front and Rear Camber Kits

[They Call Me TK]

If you have your car lowered or even stock you may want to look into buying camber kits. Please view this thread to see why When To Use Camber Kits?/do I Need A Camber Kit?

Before even attempting to put these kits on I suggest you make sure you have some extra money saved for an alignment. I was charged $89 for mine. If not, don't bother putting these kits on, they will probably do more damage than good without an alignment.

I also do not recommend putting this kit on your car if you are putting your springs or coil overs on at the same time. You will need to let the springs settle before you do any sort of alignment or your just going to end up throwing money down the toilet. It takes about 3 weeks till the springs completely settle.

Now that we got the boring intro stuff taken care of lets get to it!!

Were going to start with the front. This is relatively simple, you get two bolts for the front kit (1 bolt for each side), you can also buy 2 kits if you want more adjustablilty. Each kit will adjust up to +-1.75 degrees. The SPC front kit can be installed with metric Tools. This is where we will be working.



The picture below show 2 main bottom strut bolts, you will need to remove the top bolt.



After you remove the top bolt replace it with the SPC bold pictured below. The stock bolt that comes out will not be needed again. The washer on the SPC kit should line up with the lobe on the bolt for proper fit when installed. It is a little hard to get the bolt in but stick with it and it'll fit nice and tight.





Now, tighten every thing up and your done with the front.

Now for the rear. The rear is a bit harder because you will be replacing 2 arms and not just a couple of bolts. I suggest getting a couple good jacks, metric tools to take out the old arm and standard tools to install the new one. This is where we will be working (pictured below).



The first thing you want to do is take out the arm support bolt, pictured below.



Now your going to take out the other 2 bolts the connect the arm to the car, pictured below.



Now that the old arm is out get one of the SPC arms and prep it. (you may or may not want to assemble it before you put it in the car. I assembled it before i put it in the car. You will also notice there are 2 sets of holes to put your stock bolts into when installing on your car. If your car is lowered I suggest using the holes furthest away from the tires (if not, you will end up with -5 degrees camber), pictured below. It also doesn't matter which way you put the adjustable bolt into the arm.



Now install the arm the same way the stock arm came out with the original bolts. I wouldn't worry about where to put the adjustments on the bolt because you should be getting it aligned anyway. Just make sure everything is nice and tight.

Note: When installing the long arm bolt use a 2nd jack to adjust wheel height to make the bolt install a lot easier. Pictured below.





Note: When installing the passenger side camber arm you will notice the exhaust is in the way. You can remedy this by either having some nice swivle tools, which i don't, or you can unbolt the muffler and let the pipe hang down. This will give you enough room to work the bolts in there.

[Zeuceone]

Nice diy

[07mugencivic]

sweet DIY...it will help a lot of ppl

[Hyp]

fs forums?

[They Call Me TK]

Originally Posted by Hyp

fs forums?

how do i move this to diy???

[07mugencivic]

Originally Posted by They Call Me TK

how do i move this to diy???

MODS

[VIIIcivicsi]

Cool! Thanks for posting.

[They Call Me TK]

Originally Posted by 07mugencivic

MODS

i'm a retard, where are mods??

[They Call Me TK]

Someone please help me move this to DIY

[Hyp]

mods = moderators =P

they'll fix it shortly

great post btw!

[They Call Me TK]

Originally Posted by Hyp

mods = moderators =P

they'll fix it shortly

great post btw!

Thanks

[alphapnoy2]

noob question but which way should i face the bolt if im trying to get more positive camber? the instructions that came in the box are confusing. sorry

[Ruthless909]

Nice writeup! :thumbs:

Perhaps you can give me a hand when I get my Camber kits?!

[They Call Me TK]

Originally Posted by alphapnoy2

noob question but which way should i face the bolt if im trying to get more positive camber? the instructions that came in the box are confusing. sorry

the bolt more towards the tire = positive camber, bolt away from the tire = negative camber.

[They Call Me TK]

Originally Posted by Ruthless909

Nice writeup! :thumbs:

Perhaps you can give me a hand when I get my Camber kits?!

i'm always down to help people out just buy me some lunch and we'll call it even

[Ruthless909]

Cool!

I'll let you know...

[iomatic]

Very clear, nice instructions. A lot better than most DIYs for sure! Great job.

A couple things:
-"Now you're", and "swivel"
-please indicate torque specs

Thanks.

[They Call Me TK]

Originally Posted by iomatic

Very clear, nice instructions. A lot better than most DIYs for sure! Great job.

A couple things:
-"Now you're", and "swivel"
-please indicate torque specs

Thanks.

I wish i knew what the torque specs were, but i don't have a torque wrench. I just tightened everything pretty good

[Jdog_Si]

how accurate is the statement made where if i am installing coilovers at the same time, I should wait to install camber since it needs to settle?

[iomatic]

That doesn't seem accurate. My opinion is to get the camber kit on, and wait a bit, and then align.