Camber plates-solid or adjustable

blueaudis4 · 27th November 2008, 04:49

I am looking into getting camber plates. What is a better route to go. Adjustable like the kmac? or Dinan which are solid?

Dinan Camber plates which are fixed

5 Series*::*M5 (E39) 2000-2003*::*Chassis Tuning*::*Camber Plates

Kmac- there seems to be a stage1 and stage two

Turner Motorsport - Item# 193616 - E39 540 & M5, E38 740 Front Camber/Caster Plates (pair) - E39 E38

Turner Motorsport - Item# 193616K2 - KMAC Front Camber/Caster Plates (Pair) - Stage 2 (Street/Race) - see application chart - E39 E38 E60 E63 E64

Are the dinan plates good enough to give better turn in and feel? Or do I need to go the adjustable ones?

Need4Spd · 27th November 2008, 17:25

I can only speak to Dinan vs. Ground Control. I was all set to use the GCs for their adjustability, but their design did not seem robust enough for my tastes, and things were complicated by their sending me the wrong ones to begin with, and rather than taking them back, suggesting band-aid fixes to my tech that didn't work. So I ended up with Dinans. They are simple, very durable fixed plates. No adjustability, but the resulting camber setting when used with Dinan springs (-1.7 degrees) is just about perfect IMHO, for the street. No doubt you could use a few degrees more negative camber for the track, but you can't run that same setting on the street w/o wearing out the inner edges of your tires in a very short time (hence the need for adjustability for that kind of negative camber). So if you don't track your car, just get the Dinan plates. People complain about Dinan's prices, but there is no doubting, at least in my view, that they do their optimization homework and get in right. To me, that's worth it. I had all sorts of problems using H&R springs and Koni FSDs, and basically suffered with that setup for a year before finally going with the Dinan setup, and now couldn't be happier with that.

If you track your car, you may wish to at least consider the adjustable plates, but so far I have not been impressed with their designs. Now this is just my experience. Others have used GC plates with good success and report no problems.