I was wonder is it worth it getting a camber kit for a 95 chevy cavalier, if everytime Iam doing 65mph, my car vibrates like heck, and the I have had a front end alignment already. Also when I driving the car would sway sometimes, what could stop that, due to the fact that I have a 2 inch drop in the front and a 1.95 inch in the back. And I was trying to figure out which is better to get a front and rear strut bar, or should I do the Sway bar thing.

maybe your shocks are blown? i dont really know but if it were me thats what i would look at first.

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if you are lowered on stock shocks than that might be your problem. stock shocks are not made for lowering



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A camber kit is for adjusting the camber for racing (autocross and such).

The vibration sounds like a tire out of ballance, maybe threw a weight. Could also be shot bushings, warp rotors, ball joints, bearings, strut mounts; really need more info to make an educated guess beyond the tire out of ballance.

What do you mean it sways sometimes? When going in a straigh line it pulls? Or when cornering your have longituainal rotation (leans to the side).

Is the Cavy a base model? It might not have a sway bar at all; if so, adding a sway bar (any sway bar, doesn't have to be aftermarket) could dramatically improve the problem.

When you say strut bar, I assume you mean Strut Tower Brace. This will prevent body flex in the strut towers during hard cornering. Probably not the vibration problem you describ unless it's from wheel hop (that's a whole other story).

Do you have stock or aftermarket struts? What brand. What brand springs do you have?
Mantapart are the only springs I know of that will go down to 2" (besides sagging). At this drop you will wear out almost any strut much faster than "normal". Koni's are about the only thing I would reccomend for that much drop. Even then I have my doubts. That drop would definately blow stock struts (blow means they don't do crap anymore, not a literal blowout).

CTS is right I'm just going to add a little

Vibration could be a billion things.. I would go with tire out of balance or maybe an impact break

Camber kit is used to adjust... camber When lowering your car you will tend to have a small negative camber prob (if my memory serves me correctly) and the kit is used to adjust it either pos or neg (your choice) but neg camber = lower ride quality and faster tire wear so ya..

2" drop on stock struts? ouch.. im surprised u can even drive that thing.. definately get new aftermarket struts, and ya sway bar will help handling drastically.. but imo dont cheap out on brand, id go with eibach (<3!!)

now im just taking a guess.. but is it possible that one of your wheels has negative camber..? i assume it could be possible :\ if so that could be the swaying problem.

also, is it possible that your actual wheel is bent? when being aligned they should've noticed.. but some techs dont really care much

yup.. sooo im going to go back to drinking my sunkist now

You need to go get your wheels balanced!!!

would a camber kit on bags be ok? cause i dont have my stock bolts

Stevin Burton wrote:I was wonder is it worth it getting a camber kit for a 95 chevy cavalier, if everytime Iam doing 65mph, my car vibrates like heck, and the I have had a front end alignment already. Also when I driving the car would sway sometimes, what could stop that, due to the fact that I have a 2 inch drop in the front and a 1.95 inch in the back. And I was trying to figure out which is better to get a front and rear strut bar, or should I do the Sway bar thing.

personally find the problem of the vibration.


as for swaybars and strut braces...add the braces, but add swaybars if you need em. unless you wanna just add stuff you really dont need.

when you aligned your car, were you dropped 2"? if you dropped after then the camber AND toe would be off, possibly causing the "sway". also if the car has neg camber it will follow road irregularities more. my guess is that a strut is bad.

Hub Centric rings anyone? That's the first thing that came to my mind.

Jay




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