Endlink scraping the inside of wheel well? 2nd gen ms3 with camber

[Mr.Gregg]

Couldn't find any other threads on here about this. I've been getting a rubbing noise by the front driver side wheel while turning left, moving or stationary. Turns out the backside of my sway bar endlink is rubbing against the inside of the wheel well. I am currently at 2.5° of camber and was hoping to bump it up to 3°, but I'm pretty sure that would just make it worse. Any suggestions here? Are there any endlinks with a lower profile? Or should I just grab a hammer and beat the crap out of the inner wheel well?

 

[Mr.Gregg]

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[L337TurboZ]

Why are you running so much negative chamber? That's going to kill your tires and not do much for straight line driving. At most I would run is 1.8-2.0 which is what I run on my Miata and it's pretty low to the ground.

Also you car may be too low and the end link is hitting the body during shock compression. Is your strut aligned properly in the spindle bore?

 

[Mr.Gregg]

Why are you running so much negative chamber? That's going to kill your tires and not do much for straight line driving. At most I would run is 1.8-2.0 which is what I run on my Miata and it's pretty low to the ground.

Also you car may be too low and the end link is hitting the body during shock compression. Is your strut aligned properly in the spindle bore?

That 2.5° is for better corner grip, pretty sure last year the outer edge of my tire wore through the quickest which is why I wanted to increase camber a bit. But with these issues I might have to reduce camber, or see if I can find a slimmer endlink

 

[L337TurboZ]

That 2.5° is for better corner grip, pretty sure last year the outer edge of my tire wore through the quickest which is why I wanted to increase camber a bit. But with these issues I might have to reduce camber, or see if I can find a slimmer endlink

Are you tracking the car or is it a daily driver? With roads being crowned excessive camber is going to cause it to wander driving in a straight line. How often do you do your alignments and what kind of toe are you running?

 

[Mr.Gregg]

Are you tracking the car or is it a daily driver? With roads being crowned excessive camber is going to cause it to wander driving in a straight line. How often do you do your alignments and what kind of toe are you running?

I daily it and will probably do 5-10 trackdays this summer. I've got 1/16" toe-in up front because it would wander a bit when I got on the throttle. I last had an alignment maybe around 10 months ago, the rubbing has been happening for maybe a couple months, I'm kinda wondering if I nailed a pothole or something and camber got thrown off. But even before that there wasn't enough clearance for the grease zerks in the endlinks.