Jose hucked a good 80-90% of the Parts Shop Max suspension catalog at his Nissan Cima. A unique car, his Cima was slammed on an S14 rear subframe and S14 suspension parts. This was the first time performing such an extensive alignment job on a big-body sedan, and the results were quite…”negative.”
From PBM coilovers, to upper arms, toe arms, front lower control arms, and more, this VIP car had 100% PBM. Now that’s what I call “brand loyalty” haha.
I’ve had my gripes about PBM arms having too many locks on them. But when they’re new (or new’ish), it’s not so bad — everything turns easier, and that makes a huge difference on the pleasure of doing the alignment. On that note, I recently had a customer who put anti-seize on all the threads of his suspension arms. Pretty nice idea; I might consider doing that in the future. It makes doing alignment jobs much easier, especially when the arms are sometimes in tough-to-reach places. You can only get so much leverage with the ol’ reach-around.
Here’s a closeup of one of the arms. Some of the nuts (the ones that have locking bolts on them) are huge! You can see scratch marks where someone adjusted them with pliers, most likely because they didn’t own a big enough wrench. Truth be told, I’ve had to buy a bigger adjustable wrench specifically for adjusting PBM arms.
Here’s the fitment after the rear alignment was finished. Toe was set to stock, but camber was about -10 degrees on each corner. I can’t say whether or not it sucks to drive. But… let’s just say at least it’s better than it was before.
Up until now, I think this is the most negative-camber’d car I’ve aligned so far. Who will take the crown next?? Hopefully no one lol, but we’ll see. Maybe the next car will be a real flying saucer haha 😀
