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Two new production camber plate designs released in two days! As we have said before, 2016 was our year of releasing a “new part every week”.

This new 5th gen Camaro spherical camber plate design has been in development for some time and we’ve finally produced both the OEM and coilover spring perch options. We tested both production versions on the 2013 1LE below and they worked great.

This Camaro camber plate uses twice as many main camber plate parts as our other designs (see above – 4 pieces machined for one set), since the 5th Gen Camaro “Zeta” chassis strut tower has no mounting holes for the factory top mount. Our solution was to have a form fitting lower plate, that fits underneath the strut tower, with a second plate on top, that bolts to the lower plate from above the tower. The bearing holder slides relative to the two to adjust camber.

While this was complicated to design and machine, installation is actually pretty easy. So is camber adjustment, which can be done track side in less than a minute per side – just raise a front corner (tire off the ground), loosen the 4 Allen head bolts, and slide the wheel inboard or outboard to change camber. Tighten, lower, and hit the road. The face of the top plate has alignment reference marks to make it easy to see the difference between your “Street” and “Race” alignments, too.

This design has been tested rigorously on both a competition road race car (LG Motorsports Camaro) and a street/autox/track car (Scottish Joe’s 1LE), both shown below. That means the design can handle the rigors of competition road racing as well as the brutal day-to-day grind of street driving. The Vorshlag 5th gen Camaro camber plate design uses our massive spherical bearing in the camber plate and our exclusive sealed double row radial bearing in both our OEM style and all three coilover style (2.25″, 60mm, or 2.5″ ID springs) upper spring perches. These camber plates use NONE of the factory parts from the OEM top mount or spring perch – just set them aside for if/when you ever take the car back to stock. And if you ever switch from an OEM style spring/strut to coilovers, the camber plate assembly can be easily converted with just a spring perch change.

Our 5th gen Camaro camber plates are in stock and ready to ship. This design can add an additional 2.5° of negative camber over stock, with coilover equipped cars getting a tick more adjustment due to their smaller diameter springs. The lower you run ride height also adds more negative camber at all top plate settings. Got more questions? Call Vorshlag – we’re glad to help!

If you are thinking of switching to better dampers and springs, doing so at the same time as you change the top mounts is a great time. We can provide Bilstein PSS10 coilovers and even convert the front springs to a true 60mm ID spring, with higher rates than Bilstein provides in their base kit. We have street, autocross and road course testing with some firmer rates – that still ride great on the street. This is the beauty of inverted monotube adjustable dampers – they can control more spring rate without killing the ride quality.

We at Vorshlag have been hard at work designing, testing, and machining new camber plates for various chassis in 2016. We made our S550 camber plate initially for use with coilover springs in 2015 but 3 months ago we made a prototype for the OEM style springs on a 2015 Mustang GT.

This change required a substantial number of new parts, and we now have production parts in stock and these are ready to ship (see details here). This design is made for cars using the factory spring, lowering springs, or the popular GT350R springs – as shown below on our prototype tester’s CAM-C classed 2015 Mustang.

This setup will work on Ecoboost, V6, Coyote V8 Mustangs as well as the Shelby GT350s – without changing the front ride height, and it still uses our radial bearing spring perches for long term reliability. If you ever switch to coilovers these can be converted merely with a spring perch change.

Our S550 camber plate for coilover use is also in stock and ready to ship (see details here). Like our OEM design, these can add an additional 2.5° of negative camber and have 2 adjustable caster settings. We machine 3 versions of upper spring perches to work with the common coilover spring sizes – 2.25″, 60mmm, and 2.5″ inner diameter.

We have well over a year of testing on the coilover design and have sold many sets to S550 Mustang racers using MCS, JRZ, Ridetech and other brands of coilovers. You can learn more about the S550 MCS offerings here, which we helped develop here at Vorshlag. There are several more camber plate designs we are releasing into production in the coming days and weeks – stay tuned!

Many of you know that Vorshlag has tested many brake pad brands, and years ago we started providing Carbotech. This brand had the best “bang per buck” of a dozen pad companies we tested – their pads didn’t fall apart in high heat use, they had excellent longvity, didn’t have a problem with “de-bonding” from the backing plates, and had a great spread of compound choices. We also found excellent service and support from Danny and Chris Puskar, who were the two main faces of the company since 2003. When we called Carbotech we always got Danny on the phone, and were never disappointed. We picked Carbotech because of Danny and Chris, and we worked with them on many occasions to develop new car model offerings.

Recently Danny and Chris left Carbotech and started a new brake pad company called G-LOC Brakes, where they are now the owners. Not only do we want to congratulate them both, we’re switching to the G-LOC brand. They have brought their expertise to G-LOC and we are following the people with the expertise and not getting hung up on a name. What’s different about the G-LOC products? Not much – they are using identical brake compound materials since they have the same “compound” supplier, the colors and options are all the same, G-LOC has the same pad coverage, and the new company’s prices are just a hair lower than before. We have already ordered a number of G-LOC brake pads and they are shipping as quickly as ever.

If you know the Carbotech pad compounds, here are the equivalent compounds are for G-LOC.

Compound Comparison Chart (“secret decoder ring” )
CT…..G-LOC
1521 = GS-1 ….. This is the “street” pad that works great for daily driving
AX6 = R6 ……… This is the Autocross pad compound, more aggressive yet works well cold
XP8 = R8 ……… This is the first of many Road Course compounds
XP10 = R10 …… This is the first of many Road Course compounds
XP12 = R12 ……. This is the first of many Road Course compounds
RP2 = R14 ……… This is a fairly aggressive compound ideal for Endurance Racing
XP20 = R16 ……. This is a very aggressive compound ideal for Competition use
XP24 = R18 ……. This is their most aggressive compound ideal, and is suited for Competition use

We are transitioning our website entries right now to the new G-LOC part numbers, so if you have any questions please call Vorshlag at 972-422-7170. Thanks!