| strat61caster |
02-27-2017 01:41 PM |
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Originally Posted by Pat
(Post 2831980)
@ Racecomp Engineering Can you tell us how the travel on these compares to OEM? I know with the Ohlins people aren't happy with the lack of rear travel, and I've ridden in another BRZ where I felt like rear travel was limited on slightly shorter springs.
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Since they're B14 based, yes they will be rear travel limited if you bolt onto the OE top hats and OE LCA. Like, with the OE bumpstop Bilstein has you re-use, if you're any lower than about 1/2" than stock you're into the bump stop just sitting still iirc, and I might be remembering generously. I measured travel on my B14's, and from an OE height of 26.5" (fender to ground) they bottom out at ~24.3", but I need to do those measurements again, my surface wasn't level and I rode around with them installed wrong with a spacer limiting travel which should be worth at least a 1/4" of wheel travel. So if you want to drop this thing 2" you'll have 1/2" of bump travel.
I don't think it's worth not considering these, just that these aren't the coils to drop the thing >1" and go racing without grabbing top hats or an LCA that adds some bump travel, and I'm not too aware of any coilover that is proven to solve that. In this realm few of us have the ability to assess what is necessary and 'correct', too many variables. I'm curious what GTW is going to do with the bumpstops on these things, advise cutting X" off OE, provide their own, if the front is the same that Bilstein puts on their B14, etc.
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