Alignment question with toe??? Help?

SPOHN

Yea I know your struggle. I only do string alignments now. And after having my buddy set my car up this way and teaching me how to. It's easy and free now. I don't trust a computer alignment that has to be calibrated regularly and bases alignment from side to side combined. Who's to say it's ever even right?

With a string alignment it's always based on length for each corner and when the time is taken the toe comes out dead on. A well known shop told me the that there success in racing comes from string alignments and a great driver. Course they set each alignment up for each track. Mine is balanced between three tracks in which most have right hand turns.

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gomer_110

Any pics of your Z strung up? Specifically how and where you're attaching the strings to.

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'11 370Z Nismo #528 Fast Intentions | Stillen | Motordyne | Uprev | CSF | Zspeed | Z1 Motorsports | AST | Swift | SPC | SPL | Whiteline | Hotchkis | Bride | Schroth | Robispec | Cusco | Nismo | Volk | Forgestar | Hoosier | RJM
'17 Titan Bone Stock

SPOHN

I didnt take pics. We used jack stands with precise measurements. But I'll be buying simple tools to make setup faster. Plus I have a lift so it makes it quick and easy by itself. It's all about the setup being perfect from side to side. I also have a book on this. I was tired of spending $100-$175 per alignment. It's really easy after you understand it. Camber is even easier.

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synolimit

Iphone app? Haha

You can see my phone worked good on the right side. I wanted -1.7 and got it. But the phone moves calibration all the time so some how I wanted -1.7 left side but got -1.3. However, I was not sitting in the car so maybe that loss of 160lbs messed up what I wanted at home. At the shop I was sitting in the car hence the -1.3 instead.

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gomer_110

Someone needs to make a string alignment jig like this for the Z, one for the front and one for the rear.

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'11 370Z Nismo #528 Fast Intentions | Stillen | Motordyne | Uprev | CSF | Zspeed | Z1 Motorsports | AST | Swift | SPC | SPL | Whiteline | Hotchkis | Bride | Schroth | Robispec | Cusco | Nismo | Volk | Forgestar | Hoosier | RJM
'17 Titan Bone Stock

synolimit

Only issue I see with string is if you make toe whatever you want, couldn't your tires be facing off to the side and not straight? It'd think toe would be best measured if you did the string from tire to center line of the car and not tire to tire.

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