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Old Apr 3, 2010 | 10:35 AM
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Visually, rear suspension out of alignment. Help.

A quick rundown about the car. It's a 94 Z28 with a 12 bolt and relocation brackets. It has Lakewood non-adjustable lcas and airbag as the only suspension mods.

I'm not too sure when it happened, but the wheels sit about 1- 1 1/2" towards the rear of the wheel arch. It sits a little farther back on the drivers side. Not only that, standing at the rear of the car, you can clearly see that the wheels are not centered in the middle of the car and are off by 1/2" towards the drivers side.

I'm not too sure what to do about this and how this is affecting pinion angle. I purchased a set of adjustable lca's and adjustable panhard rod. When I tried to mount the lca's, I wasn't able to move the rear enough to get the bolts in.

The car seems to launch ok, but a friend told me that the rear end is kicking hard to the left. Sometimes it seems to launch straight...
When I tried mounting a set of 27" hoosiers, I only had less than an inch of clearance to the rear. This was enough to cause the tires to rub once the car was going down the track with the tires growing in the process.

Any info or help on this problem would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Old Apr 3, 2010 | 09:14 PM
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Sounds like the LCA & PHB brackets are not positioned accurately on the axle housing. Sounds like adjustable LCAs and PHB would fix it but you may need a non standard length on the LCAs if they need to be 1.5 in shorter than normal. How far off is the rear axle from being centered?
Old Apr 3, 2010 | 11:20 PM
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Is it possible the LCA relocation brackets are not positioned correctly in the stock axle brackets, pushing them forward?
Old Apr 4, 2010 | 12:14 AM
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Thanks for the replies. As far as I can tell, the relocation brackets can only be mounted 1 way. I guess it could be a problem with the way the brackets were mounted on the 12 bolt.
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