I just purchased the Mina Lowering spring kit for my Portfolio. I pre-inspected my car on the lift and I can't see any simple way to adjust the camber in rear wheels after lowering. Has any one addressed this yet? We lower alot of Gallardos (2 a week) and it is a simple operation of adding shims we had custom made.

 

I have the Mina springs installed on my 2007 XK and shimming was not necessary for a proper alignment. I also have the Mina springs on my XJ, in which case shimming is necessary.

 

I am considering the Mina springs as well. Am Ito assume that I can take my vehicle and springs to an import specialty shop and have them installed? My closest Jaguar dealer is about an hour away. Is it that simple where I can make the appointment, show up, and then pick the vehicle up later with them installed with no issues. Following a few of these threads, it looks as if there may be a potential for problems regarding camber and sensors relating to the suspension. I would like to have the Jaguar dealer do the install, but due to distance and the possibilty of over the top labor rates. Any suggestions are welcome. I love my car regardless, but I could vision an improved appearance with minimizing the space between the tires and wheel wells. However if it is a hassle or possible comprimise, I am prepared to leave well enough alone. Thanks.

 

Jefferey

I'm very interested in what you're going to find with the rear wheel cambers as you proceed to install the Mina springs. Please check them before installing the new springs, as well as after, to see the difference the lowering made.

I did ran a quick alignment check on my '08 XK and the rear wheels already had 1.1 degree negative camber in them. Given the wide (275), low profile tires, that is probably more than enough. Any more negative camber resulting from the lowering might be counter productive for both tire life and handling.

The front camber appears to be an easy adjustment.

My front toe is set to 0, while the rear is set to 1/16 total toe-in. That seems OK, although I will probably try a bit of toe-out on the rear to try to reduce the heavy understeer just a tiny bit. The rear swaybar size is ridiculous for a car this size. I did not measure it but, looks to be about 0.5" or smaller. The car could use minimum 3/4" but, likely more like 7/8" for better handling. Too bad that Jaguar clearly set this car up more for safe understeer than for proper handling.

Albert

 

Still waiting on the new springs, Chris @ Mina called me 2 weeks ago waiting on on shipment from Germany...just to update you!