camber adjustment?

The shims are on the bottom chassis attachment bolt. Remove a shim an the bottom of the wheel is closer to the centerline of the car. Add a shim and the bottom of the tire is farther from the centerline of the car. IIRC a 1mm shim is 0.5 degrees.

At the rear the two sets of shims controls both camber and toe.
At the front, you will have to set toe on the steering control arms and then diffle with shims.

 

Unless you have really good equipment for measuring camber, you are probably better off taking it to an alignment shop that does a bunch of Ferraris. Not only will they have the correct tools for measuring camber and toe, but they will also have a selection of shims to use in the process.

Ferraris are very sensitive to alignment and misaligned front or rear suspension can wear out a good set of tires in as little as 1000 miles. I did that on mine when I first got her and the front tires melted away.

 

While Ican't disagree, when the time comes for me to have the car aligned, I'm somewhat screwed since this area does not have shops that work on Ferrari's.

I'd also love to learn how to do an alignment myself. I think guys that race often do so.

 

As far as I can tell he can do anything and since your going to be up there? if the timing was better I would be inviting myself up on that trip.

 

Dave- I think Ron at Delta Vee said he had some techniques for owner setting of alignment specs.

Longacre Racing offers good camber gauges and I have been happy with their products, but you are probably better off getting a recommendation from Ron.

Here are instructions from Longacre on how to use their digital camber/caster gauge. Probably about the same for most digital camber gauges.

http://www.longacreracing.com/instructions/text/78295v4PI.pdf

A good set-up might run $300, so would pay for itself on the second alignment.

 

After I lowered my car I had it professionally aligned at a Ferrari race shop and they said they had to remove all the rear shims plus unbolt the A-arms and remove the washers to get the rear camber into spec. Before the alignment I had -3 degrees of rear camber and was destroying tires!

 

Most important is do it on a level surface
We set them close on the frame machine with a laser level and L bracket. Have one of those fastrax camber gauges to give us ballparks also.

I only do this to get it close enough to get to the alignment shop so I can do a printout and have my baseline

 

Yup same deal with me, had to pull the big fat washer also

 

Thank you Terry.

 

You don't need a Ferrari specific shop, just a shop that knows what they're doing. As long as they get it measured and in-spec, it should be fine. They're really not complicated to align at all, I watched mine being done at a local shop that does some race car work. They aligned to factory specs using a Hunter machine.

 

Thats usually the senario. First, throw the factory specs out the window.

 

Yes it is painfully simple and costs nearly nothing in parts to align at home.

 

I did the rear adjustment on my 348 myself, and then took it to a shop to have the front done. Here is the DIY for the rear. http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/technical-q/356344-348-rear-camber-adjustment.html