Camber plate help

[Bababooey]

I ordered some camber plates from DP racing and they don't seem to fit right. The spring hat and thrust bearing/washers are too big for the shock. I emailed them pictures and they told me to file it down. I doubt they opened the pictures to look at it.

Here's a pic of my problem. I'm to the point now where I'll just pay a machinist to make new ones if I have to. I've got about a month left to work on my car before we get 20deg weather. Any idea on how to get them to fit?

[Knestis]

I'd get back to the DP folks and say, "I have struts with a shaft diameter of [whatever] - can you help?"

Then hire the machinist.

K

[DavidM]

What's the rest of the assembly look like? I don't see how you make the shocks fit the hat without having some sort of "bushing". I'd send them back if the won't work.

David

[Bababooey]

Here it is off their website:

http://designproductsracing.com/images/118.jpg

I told them specifically what shock I had when I ordered. They sell Tokico's so there's no excuse to getting the dimensions wrong. They sent a spacer for the mount so they got it half right. It took a few days to even get an email response the first time. I doubt I'll order anything from them again. I've honestly thought about just selling these at a loss and getting some techno-toy weld ins...I'm not ordering rear plates after this screw up.

This just really pisses me off. I'm trying to get my suspension finished so I can get my car into paint in Jan. A trade school is doing it so it's going to be gone awhile while they work on it. I was hoping to shake it down next year but these vendor problems are a PITA. Someone needs to make an ITS 240 in a box like they have for Spec Miata.........

Now that I think of it, there's a machinist in our car club. Do you think a spacer that would slip over the shock would work instead of a whole new redesign.

[seckerich]

The spring perch should be cleared that much and should sit on the bottom of the slider with the needle bearings. If that is a com 10 bearing in the slider on their website you just need the sleeve to fit your shock. Do you have a picture of the slider you got with your kit?

[pballance]

+1 with what Steve said. You should have had a sleeve for your shock or they should have supplied different hardware.