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08-31-2018, 02:04 PM | #57 | |
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And to select better ones from those ten sets one will need shock dyno them.
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So you’re still saying him not aligning it and having t set up isn’t the problem, keep ignoring the fact that if OP bought $5k coilovers his car would still drive like a bag of ****s. You can say the product is inferior all you want but that IS NOT the root of the problem here the root of the problem is OP not aligning his car and having the pre load set.
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It's just something I wouldn't worry about personally, I actually cannot recall anyone who has had their coil rebuilt. |
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08-31-2018, 06:22 PM | #62 | |
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Not setting pre preload only matters if there's enough droop in the suspension to unseat the spring. Even then it won't affect anything until you go to full droop. It certainly will not affect the bounciness of the ride during normal driving. Not aligning it will shred the tires and the car won't drive straight/handle well, but again it would have very little to do with the ride comfort. The car drives like shit because BCs are known to ride like shit. They're known for too high (for street driving) spring rates and crappy damper cartridges. That's a perfect recipe for a crappy ride. |
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AGAIN.....
GO BACK AND READ WHAT THE OP DID. FFS It wasn't typical messed up preload on all four corners. He had completely fucked up the preload in a single coilover. He essentially has ZERO compression in the right rear, which would 100% make it bounce and ride like shit. My dipshit friend did the same on his miata. It too rode exactly like the OP said his car did. #ENDTHREAD EDIT: Here, I'll make it easy..... |
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Oh shoot! I totally read that as 'my coilovers have a different gap between the coils than other brands.' My bad. I thought well sure, but the number of coils in the spring being different shouldn't make it ride like shit. Quote:
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I call BS on that. Should he have had it aligned after a few days, absolutely, but that's not going to fix the ride quality. Proof? I put my KW V3's in with them set to the height I wanted based on the recommended highest height in the manual (highest recommended setting is 20mm lower than stock, I wanted 25mm lower rear and 28mm lower front), I also put in different camber bolts than before (SPC lower, stock lower bolts in the upper holes). I drove it for a couple weeks to let the springs settle (my commute is ~7kms, all city, wasn't worried about tire wear or anything). After settling I set the ride height (with my weight in the car), two corners were out more than 1/4". Corrected that, went for an alignment. RF was at -3.8*, LF was at -2.7*, toe was all over the place both front and rear. I knew the alignment was off, but the car was absolutely NOT bouncy or jarring, and wasn't pulling all over the place over bumps. Would I track it or drive it hard like it was, no, but it tracked straight on the street and at 60% of the limit you'd never know it was that poorly aligned.
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I've had terrible alignments that were downright dangerous when driven hard feel fine on the freeway and around town.
#diylife Doing a full coilover install on this car doesn't really affect the alignment on this car, it'll still be within spec in my experience. Adding camber bolts, control arms, camber plates etc will affect it, but for the bcs that would just throw off front camber. If it's a degree off, sure, you'll have to go down the street with the wheel at 5 degrees (I had a camber plate slip on the freeway two years ago after hitting a bump) but it had literally zero impact on "ride quality" |
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Sorry, but you're wrong. Toe was all over the place too, along with the steer ahead.
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It would be nice if the OP had the BC's setup and aligned, then post his view on them.
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