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My GT struggles with the underground garage I have to park in at home. If I get the approach and departure angle perfect the center of the car won't touch on entry/exit at the top side. If I get it wrong the center cross member rubs, haven't actually touched the side skirts but I'm always afraid it will. At the bottom there is no angle I can come in that it doesn't rub. I cut it as sharp as I can at the bottom but it always rubs. The part that rubs is the part of the lip that points downwards and the front portion of the lip sticks out far enough that you can't see the rubbed area.
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https://mbworld.org/forums/amg-gt-gt...ml#post7134700
Front camber for the regular model is 1 degree 42 minutes
Front camber with P71 Dynamic Pack is 2 degrees 6 minutes
Rear camber is the same for both at 1 degree 51 minutes.
And by the way, dropping the car 1.5" is going to really screw up the suspension geometry, in terms of camber curves as the suspension moves up and down, and also toe variation, bump steer, etc. Might be OK for cruising on the street, but I would surely not do that for a car run on a race track.
Last edited by descartesfool; Jun 8, 2017 at 09:19 PM.
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No secret. It's part of the factory alignment procedure from the manual, which was posted by Alexfor8 in his maintenance thread.
https://mbworld.org/forums/amg-gt-gt...ml#post7134700
Front camber for the regular model is 1 degree 42 minutes
Front camber with P71 Dynamic Pack is 2 degrees 6 minutes
Rear camber is the same for both at 1 degree 51 minutes.
And by the way, dropping the car 1.5" is going to really screw up the suspension geometry, in terms of camber curves as the suspension moves up and down, and also toe variation, bump steer, etc. Might be OK for cruising on the street, but I would surely not do that for a car run on a race track.
https://mbworld.org/forums/amg-gt-gt...ml#post7134700
Front camber for the regular model is 1 degree 42 minutes
Front camber with P71 Dynamic Pack is 2 degrees 6 minutes
Rear camber is the same for both at 1 degree 51 minutes.
And by the way, dropping the car 1.5" is going to really screw up the suspension geometry, in terms of camber curves as the suspension moves up and down, and also toe variation, bump steer, etc. Might be OK for cruising on the street, but I would surely not do that for a car run on a race track.
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Great insight. Aside from aesthetics, sounds like it's counterproductive to lower this car. Suspension 'as is' (with DPP, anyway) is already '98%' with the benefit of not needing to worry excessively about uneven driveway approaches or potentially insurmountable alignment issues.
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Great insight. Aside from aesthetics, sounds like it's counterproductive to lower this car. Suspension 'as is' (with DPP, anyway) is already '98%' with the benefit of not needing to worry excessively about uneven driveway approaches or potentially insurmountable alignment issues.
Except that our OEM cars look like they are on stilts. To Descartes post, at least RennTech, KW and Weistech coilovers are adjustable, unlike H&R. I wonder if these guys would like to comment on the suspension geometry issue??
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