Cheap Egay camber plates... good or instant death?

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Originally Posted by racepar1

The tein camber plates, and all tein products, use NWB bearings. NWB is pretty much the top manufacturer of spherical bearings in the world. For sure 3-piece, and for sure either a teflon or PTFE liner. That is why I reccomend their camber plates, because I KNOW what bearings they come with and I have PERSONALLY punished the fuck out of their camber plates and have had absolutely NO problems. I had a set of their camber plated when I crashed in the canyons. The impact sheared the strut shaft off, broke my TEIN tension rod, and absolutely crushed my FLCA (not to mention bent the fuck outta the chasis). My buddy is STILL using the same camber plates the I bought like 3 years ago, and crashed with, and I am STILL using the rod end from my broken tension rod on my e-gay trac arms (that happen to look EXACTLY like the early SPL arms). I have battle tested their products, the bearings in particular, and the bearings are the last thing to go. The MOST important part of any suspension item (other than the shocks themselves) is the bearings used in them and a lot of people don't seem to understand that. The e-gay camber plates asked about in this thread will most likely not break and cause you to die, but they WILL require replacement MUCH sooner than the ones that I reccomend. Most people simply do not have the knowledge and resourcefulness to source bearings and figure out how to replace them so a worn out bearing generally means a whole new part. You will save money in the long run by buying a quality part the first time rather than buying something cheap that will have to be replaced every year or so.

If anybody thinks it's that hard to whip out some $15 digital calipers and find a standard off the shelf bearing of the same dimensions - then they shouldn't be modifying cars in the first place.

Tein camber plates have a crap design that eats up shock travel. I'm not impressed in the least by them. I'd also hardly call NWB bearings the best in the world... but I guess that's more of a personal opinion.



There's nothing magical about a camber plate being able to take high loads compared to a strut rod in bending - basic machine design makes that pretty obvious. I guarantee my Koni 8611s would snap before my eBay camber plates ripped in half.


I guess I just realize where most of the "JDM tyte" stuff is manufactured, and if you have some basic knowhow, it's not that hard to get a very nice bearing in the plate and have a fairly cheap solution overall. Plus they don't eat up anywhere near as much travel as Tein plates.