Customer Reviews
Fast accurate at home alignments when doing constant changes and tweaks to the car. Thank you Paco Motorsports for a great product !
The best tool investment I've ever made was purchasing the Paco Hub Stand Kit from Flyin' Miata (FM). It works exactly as advertised. I recently removed, replaced, and updated the entire suspension for my wife's 2014 NC3 Club. Using the Paco Hub Stands, I was able to set up a street/autocross/track day camber, castor, toe, and thrust angle alignment from scratch in about 2 hours time. FYI, the Paco Hub Stands alignment was within 5% of the measurements from a Hunter alignment rack! In addition to the Miata, I'm now using the Paco Hub Stands for time attack track day alignments for friends and my own Porsche's, Mustangs, BMW's etc. I also purchased the Hub Stand Floor Plates which are super helpful if the garage/shop floor is not smooth. Thanks FM for offering such an outstanding shop tool!
Showed up on time well packaged and no issues at all as usual! Thanks for the great service!
Love these things!
Originally, I bought rotating plates and built wood stands because I wanted to get my car set up and learn how to do my own suspension (I was new to dialing in a race suspension). While the rotating plates and toe plates method works OK, the Paco Hub Stands is a way better method. The fact that it has the spring-loaded toe alignment is just icing on the cake. Much easier to dial everything in.
Note that your camber may read more negative on the stands than when you get back on tires. And the drop is different front to back (0.7 front drop / 1.0 back drop). I dialed in the fronts as much as I could (2.9 max camber on stands became 2.2 back on the tires for a 0.7 drop). The rear had a 1.0 drop. So I had to put everything back on stands and set the rear camber to be -0.3 more than the fronts to get the right drop when on tires. This is pretty straightforward.
I also wish I would have purchased the plates. I thought my garage floor was good concrete, but when setting the caster and rotating the wheel, it created small ruts in the floor, so it wasn't very though concrete. I'll buy plates for next time which will make dialing in a much smoother experience.
The other nice thing is that the tires are off using this method. That means you don't need to climb under the car. You can reach the cam bolts by reaching around the brake disk.
They are a bit pricey, but glad I have them. Wish I would have purchased these first.