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TopHat Issue St Coilovers
Hey guys, i am currently confused on the tophat situation regarding the ST coilovers. A lot of the images are broken on the forums (thanks photobucket..) and i am having a hard time finding this information. Now, does one completely reuse the oem top hat for the STs? I have heard that people remove the lower half of it, but I am having a hard time seeing how they do so since its one piece. I have it currently installed, and the front sits a bit higher than desired. Now, i think that might just be the added height from not removing the lower perch. Does anyone have insight or images on this? thank you!
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How low are you trying to get it? You might be as low as they can go already?
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I thought the front spring perch on the OE top hat was supposed to be removed and replaced with the provided spring perch that comes with the ST's, I believe that's common with KW or any other spring/damper combo that uses a differently sized spring from OE.
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About 2:50 into this video they describe the top hat swap, looks like there's some awkward hardware going on, idk. http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30968 http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...&postcount=183 |
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08-07-2017, 10:42 AM | #8 |
If you're not going to use the OEM upper spring perch (and we do not as you can see in strat61caster's picture of our RCE coilovers), then I would highly recommend using the OEM conical washer.
Details in our instructions here: http://racecompengineering.com/instr...structions.pdf Our RCE coilovers are made by KW so instructions are similar for your STs. - Andrew Last edited by Racecomp Engineering; 08-07-2017 at 12:38 PM. |
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It looks like you meant the upper spring seat that's attached to the OEM upper mount? If that's the case, you definitely want to remove it.
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(this is all about the front top hats, the rear top hats absolutely have the spring perch integrated into the top hat and is unchangeable) |
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