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psyclone69
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Sorry for the long post,

Well heres my problem, I bought my 240 base model coupe, back in November, when I bought it, it had a clunking in the rear, and also a slight wobble in the rear end. In Decemeber I lowered my 240 with Koni yellows, and eibach sportlines. I also fixed the clunking porblem with PDM racings subframe align and lock, which fixed the clunking which was the subframe slamming back and forth.

So now it was lower, and suspension was stiffened and there is no subframe movement at all.

Now my car doesn't clunk but the slight wobble in the rear end, has become greater, it does it when I am driving at high speeds changing lanes, and also braking from high speeds. Before it wobbles when braking at high speeds, it almost feels as if the body twists before it wobbles. its not an up and down body roll type wobble, but a left and right type wobble.

I'm not sure what the problem is, but it feels unsafe to drive at high speeds. I know the things that are wrong with it right now, and I don't think thats causing any of the problems.

I don't have a rear sway bar, I have a 2 degree cross caster problem up front, but that should only cause it to pull to the right, and I have a busted drivers side tc bushing.

These shouldn't cause the wobble though. Does anyone have the slightest clue of what could be wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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How are the tires? Do they have any hop or shimmy to them when you spin them by hand? Do the wobble increase with vehicle speed?

psyclone69
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Tires are fine, theyre brand new.

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"Tires are fine, theyre brand new."And that means what? brand new there are junk tires and worse junk tire all the way up to decent tires and a few excelllant tires.

Give us all you alignment readings; Front camber, caster, toe,SAI, included angle....Rear camber, toe, and thrust angle for each wheel.

psyclone69
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The tires are goodyear eagles, I did put them on myself and highspeed balanced them, no problems there.I don't know exactly where my alignment readings are, I checked the alignment out today all specs were fine, cross caster is a little off, and rear camber is slightly off.

Could it be a caliper hanging up that could cause it, or air in the brake lines?


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