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Rusty S

I just discovered this yesterday. I lowered the rear end on my car which caused about 4.5 degrees of negative camber. I had always been told that you cannot adjust camber on an IRS VW. Not in this case. There are two ways...

1. Intermeccanica's have an eccentric adjustment on the upper trailing arm that is for camber adjustment. (Just found this out)

2. You can vertically slot the lower trailing arm bolt holes, tilt the trailing arm up to correct negative camber or down to correct positive camber. (This technique works on both IM's and non IM's with IRS)

I took my car to a frame shop and he spotted the eccentric on my trailing arms. He adjusted both sides to 2 degrees negative camber. I could not go any more as the offset on Greg's new wheels put the tires too close to the fender. At 2 degrees I am good with that! It looks so much better.

This little IM extra just may be worth the added 40,000 you pay for one of these cars...!

9/29/168:44 AM

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LfepardoSeattle, WA, 2013 VS

Side note- I put 1/4" spacers ( from gtwerk.com) to accommodate the change in offset of the Vinatage/Greg's wheels. (4" vs 3.75" I had with my Cip1 wheels). I wanted to keep spacing/clearances I had with the 3.75" offset.

they sell in 1/8" up to 1". Cheaper than Sierra Madre...

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9/29/169:11 AM

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Rusty S

Alex - if you read this what's the offset on the new wheels compared to my old ones?

9/29/1610:03 AM

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Vintage Motorcars Inc Supporting Merchant

Just measured, 3 3/4. So they would be closer to the finder than the ones you have on now.

9/29/1610:28 AM

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Rusty S

Vintage Motorcars - Alex posted:
Just measured, 3 3/4. So they would be closer to the finder than the ones you have on now.

I thought it was opposite. I may have to grind the inside of my wheel wells a little.

9/29/1610:49 AM

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LfepardoSeattle, WA, 2013 VS

Offset explained-

- the larger the back-spacing #, the further in the wheel is tucked into the car/wheel well.

Example- a wheel with 4" backspacing tucks the wheel in 1/4" further into the wheel well than a wheel with 3.75" backspacing.

- see attached diagram. hope this helps.

On my Car-

- the cip1 wheels I had installed had 3/75" back spacing.

- the new Vintage (& AWESOME) wheels I now have installed have a 4" backspacing. I installed 1/4" spacers to push the Vintage wheels out to where the Cip1 wheels were at in the wheel well & in relation to the other components in the wheel well.

Love the new wheels!

... and if you were wondering - How much cheaper are the spacers at GTwerks- 38$ vs 60$ at SMC... and as far as I can tell, GTwerks makes them and Sierra Madre re-sells them (as they do with many NLA/Stoddard and other products) for a handling fee.

ISP West and SoCal imports also sell spacers for around ~24$... but they don't look as pretty.

9/29/1612:16 PM