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Old 10-10-2013, 08:36 PM   #29
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These are freaking beautiful!
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been saving my pennies for the same setup. congrats on yours. maybe by spring for me.
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Old 10-12-2013, 09:41 PM   #31
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You will be going much lower than I did on these. Be curious on your thoughts on how you liked adjusting height front and rear.

They're super easy to adjust height on car NO? Interested to hear if this is incorrect in thinking..
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They're super easy to adjust height on car NO? Interested to hear if this is incorrect in thinking..
I could not get the rear to adjust without removing the shock from the control arm on one side. Trying to double up wrenches is almost impossible with little clearance in the back.

Adjusting the front is also something you need to have the wheels off for and can be tricky but not much different than other coils. Took two weekends to do, measuring, adjusting, re-measuring, settling re-adjusting.

This excludes corner balance.
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I could not get the rear to adjust without removing the shock from the control arm on one side. Trying to double up wrenches is almost impossible with little clearance in the back.

Adjusting the front is also something you need to have the wheels off for and can be tricky but not much different than other coils. Took two weekends to do, measuring, adjusting, re-measuring, settling re-adjusting.

This excludes corner balance.
Hey savage, what was your method for measuring and getting the correct height settings? Did u take into account driver weight?
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Old 10-14-2013, 05:29 PM   #34
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Hey savage, what was your method for measuring and getting the correct height settings? Did u take into account driver weight?

We used weights in the car when setting up 3x 50lbs. And then alignment we used actually driver weight plus 20lbs for gear.

We found using a large meter stick with mm and micrometer was easiest for measuring. On the alignment rack we got the car level, set pressures then measured from ground to center of fender metal and placed marks for repeatability. Re-measured 3x to make sure our readings were accurate.

Our initial alignment was basic because we gave a week for suspension to settle before we did anything else. Glad we did.
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You can see here basically you losen the bottom lock nut and the entire shock body can be rotated to adjust height without changing pre-load.
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Now the issue was on the other side we could not turn the shock body by hand so we actually had to remove the shock from the control arm which made it much easier to do.

We replace all nuts and suspension bolts as well so make sure you if you do what we did at the very least use red thread lock on all the bolts.


Could Not Rotate Shock Body:





FINALLY REMOVED SHOCK FROM ARM TO ADJUST:






FYI goal to finish this video this month along with the others way behind.
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Yeah @Dezoris I'm fully aware of how the height is adjusted on this setup, not much different from other coilovers I've used before for all types of different cars.

Will reserve judgment on how easy/hard it is to adjust height until I actually install the suspension, but this all just comes with the territory of owning adjustable suspension, in my opinion.

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Yeah @Dezoris I'm fully aware of how the height is adjusted on this setup, not much different from other coilovers I've used before for all types of different cars.

Will reserve judgment on how easy/hard it is to adjust height until I actually install the suspension, but this all just comes with the territory of owning adjustable suspension, in my opinion.

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I am not implying you didn't. I will stay out of your thread until you get your final install done. Looking forward to it!!
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I am not implying you didn't. I will stay out of your thread until you get your final install done. Looking forward to it!!
haha contribute all you want... I reserved Post #2 for my own install pics.

Always good to pool info together.

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I have these installed on mine for the last 2 months now love them! Live in cali no salt here unless I drive in the ocean.
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The height adjustable strut is an unbelievably snazzy design. I don't think I've ever seen this beside on Ohlins struts. Mustbenice
Endless Zeal and a few others have had similar designs for decades just FYI.
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How's it going Mav?, get chance to get em on and broken in?

People keep mentioning rates of these coils in 343/343 spring rates? Every vendors store I look at they're 515 front and 400 rear..so what's that all about?
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How's it going Mav?, get chance to get em on and broken in?

People keep mentioning rates of these coils in 343/343 spring rates? Every vendors store I look at they're 515 front and 400 rear..so what's that all about?
Havent' installed them yet... but the spring rate on mine are 6/6 kg/mm (~337 lb/in)

That's the standard setup.

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