2005 - 2010 and 2007-2014 GT500 Mustang Maximum Motorsports Caster Camber Plates

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 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. 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.