Installed RUCA's now have crazy toe out

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Justin35ll
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Well, my car is lowered on megan coilovers and now I just installed some megan RUCA's to fix the negative camber I had in the rear.
Well all went well I only have about 1 degree negative camber now, but I have so much toe out that I can hear the tires skipping and chirping moving slowly in a straight line.
And it's scarey to make turns or drive it on the highway.

I have always heard of people installing RUCA's.. never knew this was this much of a problem.
I know I need the rear toe links to fix it, but if I install the toe links will I need the traction links too?

I'm pissed off because I have a drift event this saturday and sunday and now I'm facked

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ILoveMyRHS13
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Uh, yeah. When you change a car's height, it's going to mess with all of it's suspension geometry.

I've never heard of people needing aftermarket traction rods. You can get the stock arms close enough to stock.

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RustspecS13
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Put some camber back in it and decrease the huge amount of toe you have and then get it aligned.

Or max out the factory toe adjustments and then add camber till your happy with the camber/toe compromise.

Either way you really need after market toe arms.

If you leave it as is it will destroy the inside 10% of your tires down to belts very very fast.

~Alex

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Justin35ll
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I thought there was no rear toe adjustment on stock arms though

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RustspecS13
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Yeah, its called an eccentric. Loosen the nut and then turn the other side of the bolt and it'll turn against the frame a couple tenths of a degree.

Problem is its easy to max the stock adjustments (which factory rear camber and rear toe are adjustable) when at anything other then factory height.

~Alex

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Justin35ll
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Okay, didn't realize rear toe was adjustable, well I guess I'll give a little more negative camber and try to toe in as much as I can

Hoffman5982
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Lol I just had the same problem when i adjusted my camber, accept I had alot of toe in. Did it feel squirrely at higher speeds, like the back end just swayed around? it sucks, but Thats what happens when you lower it

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car looks great tho...

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Just get the other arms so you can adjust your toe. That's what I did.

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Justin35ll
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Yeah, I'm gonna try and get the other arms, hopefully I can by friday or I'll just have to run negative camber again

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Yep, I had changed everything except toe/traction thought I could get by without them, but needed the toe because stock wouldn't adjust enough. Just went ahead and got both, easier to just do one alignment instead of possibly having to get 2.


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