Friday’s Focus (Camber Plates)

At long last the Vorshlag 3rd generation Focus camber plates are in production, in stock, shipping, and available for purchase for the RS and ST.

These are made to work with coilover struts and we include an upper spring perch to fit either a 2.25″, 60mm or 2.5″ ID coilover spring. Unlike with other platforms there was not sufficient room within the confines of the factory strut tower structure to allow for any meaningful camber adjustment with the large diameter OEM springs. Oh well, just a better excuse to move up to coilovers!

Our camber plate tester Todd E has been running his Focus RS in Global Time Attack and Optima Street Car competitions throughout 2016 and into 2017. The added camber from these plates, combined with the better damping & spring rate of our Bilstein PSS coilovers, Forgestar 17×9.5″ wheels, and wider 275mm Bridgestone RE71R tires, made for a significant increase in performance and competitiveness in these series. This car has seen both autocross and road course competition and the results speak for themselves.

Camber adjustment is relatively easy – just raise the front end, access the top of the strut towers, loosen the top nuts above the tower, and slide the wheel in or out. Caster adjustment is done off the car but is much less frequently altered. Engineer looked at this chassis and made a thicker than usual “top pointer ring” to be able to slide the strut top nut under the top of the tower, for much needed positive caster and negative camber room (we have seen more than -4° camber travel) – without the need to cut up the strut tower structure.

The smaller diameter 60mm spring is about half the diameter of the OEM bits (see above), which gives ample room to move the top of the strut inboard for more camber travel. The added benefit of this car’s conversion was the added spring rate – which radically reduced brake dive, rear squat and body roll.

So when you are ready to take it to he next level in your RS or ST Focus know that there’s one camber-caster plate that was built to give you maximum adjustment range, rock solid reliability, and be silent in use: Vorshlag.