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66fs said

You are correct, and my guy is getting ready to retire. I told him to get an alignment rack for his garage. I admire you guys who have decided to get the tools and do your own alignments. I was assuming a good stock front end, so that is were those caster numbers came from. My guy has me so spoiled, I can ride in any car and can feel if the alignment is right or just within spec. My point was, it is not a thing to cheap out on and definitely worth finding a good shop.

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Oh totally, I agree. I wish I could find a good shop that would do a custom alignment on my car. They are around, but it's kind of a specialized deal and driving an hour to an alignment shop poses its own problems, I have to rough in an alignment before I even do that and if I'm going to do that I might as well just do it myself.

And my car is kind of specialized at this point, I have a harder time than some others will finding a shop. Not even all of the "old guys" want to deal with my car either, every single suspension part is aftermarket and adjustable, it runs modern wheels and tires and takes a modern alignment. Not an extreme one by today's performance car standards, but VERY extreme compared to anything factory for its era. Used to be I could tell some of the alignment techs to just put a 2010 Challenger SRT into the computer and not worry about getting to +9° of caster. But between the custom alignment and all the aftermarket parts it just made more sense for me to get my own stuff. Plus I have a few cars, so really it all paid for itself pretty quickly.