The man wants MORE caster. How about this idea?

Kern Dog said
This car is not a commuter, it is just a toy.

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I put spacers in the right side like these:

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The reason? I couldn't get the camber to where I wanted with the caster that I could get. I'm being reminded of how inter-related that caster and camber can be.
In short, I started down the road of doing my own alignment because I suspected that the alignment shop that I used may have lied about the numbers on my car. I was told it aligned to over 5 degrees of caster and when I checked with this gauge, I had 3 degrees on one side and 3 1/4 on the other. I messed with the alignment cams and was able to get the 5 degrees of caster on both sides but the right side camber was only 1/8 degree and I wanted more. In theory, I could have just used those ball joint spacers to gain the negative camber.
The QA 1 arms at full caster came in around 8 1/2 degrees.
I'm just curious about what negative effects I might have with a caster number that high.
Hard to steer at slow speeds? I have a manual transmission so I could rev the engine a bit to speed up the pump.
It looks like I could get 7 1/2 to 8 degrees of caster and 1.0 degree of negative camber with this car.

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I could just align it, lock down the cam bolts and drive it to see.

So I ran my Duster for awhile with +8° caster, -1° camber and that was with 16:1 manual steering.

So, with power steering I don’t think the car would be difficult to steer, I managed it with fast ratio manual.

That said, the amount of body lift you get by turning the wheels is pretty significant at that point too. Like the car visibly sits at an angle in the front with the wheels turned. Is it worse than new cars that also run +8°, +9° or even more caster? Not really. But those suspensions were designed for that much, so they probably handle it a bit better.

The steering effort and amount of lift you’re getting also changes very rapidly up in that territory, so the difference between +7.5° and +8.5° would be significant. Personally, I’d try to keep the caster under about +7.5°.