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| The Maximum Motorsports Caster/Camber
Plates address the issues of obtaining proper alignment, both static
and dynamic, and achieving high performance handling.
Obtaining proper static alignment
in your Mustang can be a challenge even on a stock car, as some
Mustangs have too much negative camber at stock ride height (see
illustration below). Excessive negative camber causes increased
wear on the inside edges of your front tires. When you lower your
Mustang, the camber becomes more negative. Once the car is lowered,
the factory camber adjustment slots may not provide enough range
of motion for reducing negative camber to a point where your tires
will wear evenly. The MM Caster/Camber plates will provide the ability
to set the camber to stock specifications regardless of ride height.
They also provide a means of adjusting caster in order to accommodate
individual vehicle irregularities.
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| Dynamic alignment accuracy
is the ability of your Mustang to maintain its static alignment settings
during hard cornering. This accuracy is not possible with the stock
rubber strut mounts because they deflect, allowing the camber and
caster settings to fluctuate, which changes the effective toe setting.
Any time the effective toe setting changes it creates a steering input
which is not coming from the driver. When engineering our Caster/Camber
plates, we discovered that the only design which allows the necessary
strut top movement is a spherical bearing. The desired movement is
a strut top which swivels without moving side to side, while the strut
bottom is allowed to move in an arc.
Achieving high performance handling
requires alignment settings different from the factory specifications.
High performance settings would be more negative camber and more
positive caster. More negative camber and more positive caster will
help keep the tire more upright during cornering, thereby maximizing
the size of the tire footprint on the ground. When cornering, body
roll causes an increase in positive camber, which pulls up the inside
edge of the front outside tire, reducing the effective size of the
tire’s footprint. More static negative camber counters this effect.
For example, if you have 1 degree of static negative camber, and
the camber moves 3 degrees due to body roll, you end up with 2 degrees
of dynamic positive camber. If you have 3 degrees of static negative
camber, you’ll end up with 0 degrees of dynamic camber – resulting
in a larger tire footprint. Due to the steering geometry in the
front of the Mustang, just turning the steering wheel will cause
the camber of the outside front tire to change, becoming more positive.
This effect can be countered by increasing the amount of caster.
Enough positive caster (around 4 degrees in a Mustang) will cause
the camber of the outside front tire to become more negative while
cornering.
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MM's Caster/Camber plates are unique:
- MM’s plates are double adjustable. They have
separate adjusting slots to change caster and camber independent
of one another.
- Our plates double the range of motion available
for camber adjustment compared to stock.
- The range of motion available for caster adjustment
is not limited by the design of the MM plate, but rather by the
physical limitations of the strut tower.
- The MM plates use a spherical bearing instead
of a urethane bushing. A spherical bearing accommodates the required
motion without binding. Urethane binds and puts a bending load
on the top of the strut shaft, which may cause your strut top
to break.
- The steel construction and spherical bearing
in MM’s plates provide a non-deflecting strut mount. With the
absence of deflection, you will get better performance because
of a quicker and more direct steering response.
- MM’s plates include progressive rate urethane
bump stops which softens the impact when the suspension bottoms
out.
- Our plates allow the use of the factory dust
cover.
- Finished with durable powdercoating or triple-plated
chrome for great looks and long lasting protection.
- MM’s plates provide the greatest increase in
suspension travel possible for lowered cars.
- All MM Caster/Camber plates are TIG welded.
- All MM Caster/Camber plates are suitable for
use with coil-over conversion kits.
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| Application |
Main Plate
Option |
Part No. |
Price |
| 1979-89 Mustang** |
Powdercoated Black |
CC7989 |
$195/kit |
| Triple-Plated Chrome |
CC7989-C |
$245/kit |
| Custom Color |
CC7989-CC |
$255/kit |
| 1990-93 Mustang |
Powdercoated Black |
CC9093 |
$195/kit |
| Triple-Plated Chrome |
CC9093-C |
$245/kit |
| Custom Color |
CC9093-CC |
$255/kit |
| 1994-01* Mustang |
Powdercoated Black |
CC9994 |
$199/kit |
| Triple-Plated Chrome |
CC9994-C |
$249/kit |
| Custom Color |
CC9994-CC |
$259/kit |
| 1983-88 Thunderbird |
Powdercoated Black |
CC8388 |
$199/kit |
| Triple-Plated Chrome |
CC8388-C |
$249/kit |
| Custom Color |
CC8388-CC |
$259/kit |
| 1984-88 Lincoln Mark VII |
Powdercoated Black |
CC8388 |
$199/kit |
| Triple-Plated Chrome |
CC8388-C |
$249/kit |
| Custom Color |
CC8388-CC |
$259/kit |
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*These plates
feature MM’s exclusive 4-bolt mounting design. This makes them the
only CC plates suitable for use with coil-over applications on 94
and newer Mustangs.
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