CT5-V Must have for track alignments

[poor-sha]

I've confirmed that the SPL rear toe links for the Camaro work fine for the 5BW. Without them, you won't have enough toe adjustment to get the requisite camber. SPL part number is RTAEL CAM6 and you'll also want to get new inner toe link bolts since the factory ones are single use - they should be GM part number 11609598. You're also supposed to replace the camber eccentric bolts, which I did - GM part 11547215.

 

[vblkwng]

+1 did this a while ago, makes a huge difference.

 

[MatthewAMEL]

I've confirmed that the SPL rear toe links for the Camaro work fine for the 5BW. Without them, you won't have enough toe adjustment to get the requisite camber. SPL part number is RTAEL CAM6 and you'll also want to get new inner toe link bolts since the factory ones are single use - they should be GM part number 11609598. You're also supposed to replace the camber eccentric bolts, which I did - GM part 11547215.

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Did you just get the toe arms or also the eccentric lockout kit? I had both on my 1LE. Was happy with them.

 

[poor-sha]

Did you just get the toe arms or also the eccentric lockout kit? I had both on my 1LE. Was happy with them.

I have both. I can’t remember of I had to buy separately, but I thought it all came together.

 

[BimmerFan]

A few thoughts:

a) I love your avatar
B) that looks like a killer garage
3) cool tools too (alignment jig)
iv) I love VIR too, but I ain't gonna do 160 in a street car

I'm just a pussy, that's OK, I've accepted it.

 

[MatthewAMEL]

A few thoughts:

a) I love your avatar
B) that looks like a killer garage
3) cool tools too (alignment jig)
iv) I love VIR too, but I ain't gonna do 160 in a street car

I'm just a pussy, that's OK, I've accepted it.

You won't die. Promise.

 

[jvp]

You won't die. Promise.

Hell I did 160 in a 4th gen Corvette in a public road and lived to tell about it. Of course that was during the Pony Express a whole bunch of years ago, but who's counting? ;-)

 

[vblkwng]

Did you just get the toe arms or also the eccentric lockout kit? I had both on my 1LE. Was happy with them.

Both.

 

[BimmerFan]

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You won't die. Promise.

LOL. I don't recognize the track, but my first HPDE was at Charlotte/Lowe's/HomeDepot raceway many (many!) years ago in my C4 Corvette. I got lapped, lapped my friends, by a kid in a Camaro. So I was humbled early on. I did, however, get to experience boiling brake fluid with the associated "soft pedal" at 130 MPH (we were using the infield as well as the NASCAR track turns 1,2 & 3) so that kind of stuck with me.

As it did when I boiled the brakes at VIR many years later because I put the directional brake rotors on backwards.

Anyway, I'm not trying to defend myself or rationalize my weenie ways. Just sayin', clarifying perhaps, that doing 160 in and of itself doesn't concern me as much as the slowing down afterwards.