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Discussion starter · #44 ·
It does have a little neg camber, but nothing alarming.
At the moment, my wheels and tires BARELY clear the rear fenders if they compress, but the fender flange is pretty big. If you correct the camber, i might rub.

If you are familar w/ lowered cars, it looks like the rear fender flange can get rolled, or trimmed, to allow more aggressive offsets or wider tires.

Currently, w/ the amount of rear camber there is, I have no plans to correct it with a camber kit. It only looks like a couple degrees, which is acceptable.
Just have the Toe settings right, and rotate the tires regularly, and they'll be fine.
 
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joe422 said:
It does have a little neg camber, but nothing alarming.
At the moment, my wheels and tires BARELY clear the rear fenders if they compress, but the fender flange is pretty big. If you correct the camber, i might rub.

If you are familar w/ lowered cars, it looks like the rear fender flange can get rolled, or trimmed, to allow more aggressive offsets or wider tires.

Currently, w/ the amount of rear camber there is, I have no plans to correct it with a camber kit. It only looks like a couple degrees, which is acceptable.
Just have the Toe settings right, and rotate the tires regularly, and they'll be fine.
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Thanks! I do plan on rolling my fenders when I do get it lowered. I'm into the stance/hellaflush movement. With that style I will probably not correct the camber. I'm still looking for coil overs which I don't think they make for this generation. I guess I will have to go with H&R springs for now. Where did you get yours at?
 
Discussion starter · #46 ·
Sweet... I love a good stance, and stretch tires, etc. I have an Audi A4 w/ BBS LM's poking out and a mild stretch, slammed. Love it.

Can't wait to see what you do w your Ody! Please post your results!

As for the H&R... I just called them direct and ordered. Most shops don't actually have them in stock.

Good luck!
 
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I'm pretty much a euro guy, Audis, vw, bmws. it's funny you mentioned Audi A4. I have a slammed Audi A4 B6 too slammed on H&R race springs, Kerscher body kit, with staggered Privat wheels with poke and stretch. There's a huge euro event called Wuste this weekend here in Vegas.

Anyways, back to Odyssey. I'm gonna search online for the springs. If not found I'll call them up. Even though this van is my family hauler, I just can't roll stock. I've notice other vans in here are conservative. Thanks!
 
Discussion starter · #48 ·
Nice~

I pulled out my turbo at the moment to swap the manifold, but never finished (1 and 3 yr old are keeping me waaaay too busy :tongue: )

but yea, mine's a B5 A4 TQMS... GT3071 on Autronics standalone... nice sleeper w/ the 1.8T badge still on the back :DD


Good luck w/ the Ody.. and post when you mod it~
 
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joe422 said:
Nice~

I pulled out my turbo at the moment to swap the manifold, but never finished (1 and 3 yr old are keeping me waaaay too busy :tongue: )

but yea, mine's a B5 A4 TQMS... GT3071 on Autronics standalone... nice sleeper w/ the 1.8T badge still on the back :DD


Good luck w/ the Ody.. and post when you mod it~
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Hey Joe, I finally got around to modding my Ody but on this site, haters gone hate since I'm now fully bagged with rubber band tires.
 
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First off I am new to forum! So hi everyone and thanks. I just bought a 09 odyssey wanting to lower it! I understand I have to get the 07 struts do have to get the mounting hardware as well or just the strut? Please help thank you!
 
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On my '08 with the '07 front retrofit and H&R springs, I found the front ended-up with almost no negative camber (-.03 degree) but the rear had -1.5 degrees.

It did wear rear tires somewhat more on the inside so I ultimately put in the SPC adjustable upper arms when I replaced the rear shocks (the second time I've replaced the rear shocks - I've concluded the OE Honda rear shocks are rubbish and replaced them with KYBs this time). I sourced both the KYBs and SPC arms through The Tire Rack, by the way.

The alignment shop set the front and rear camber the same @ -.03 degrees. I'd actually prefer to have about -.5 degrees all around for somewhat better handling, so I might address this when I replace the front struts with KYBs. One benefit of reducing the rear camber is that the rear wheels look more 'flush' on the quarter panel. It took me a week to get used to it, but it looks a lot better than having the rear tires more tucked-in at the top - more consistent front-to-rear. One down side is that if you run a very aggressive wheel set-up you might introduce some fender/tire rubbing. I did not, as I had trimmed the rear fenders prior to installing the 20" wheels, as a precautionary measure.
 
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Thank you, SoCalSC4. This definitely confirms for me that I need to get the SPC arms for the rear. Did you get the cam bolts for the front as well?

I had actually looked at the exact same setup on Tire Rack before posting, so I'm glad to see that you went the same route. I'll probably get the fenders rolled before doing any of this, though. I just got 255/45-19 tires for our van and it will definitely rub if I get it lowered.
 
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