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A very important update! I don't have any pictures but I have made awesome progress with the suspension today!
I found the english portion of the user manual which has suggested settings for preload and other things so I went about setting them accordingly. For the front, from top of the spring to the bottom of the spring is suggested to be 6.5 to 6.7 inches. The rear was suggested to be 7.4 inches to 8.1 inches.
I found that the front end preload was set a bit too high with the spring set at around 6.2 inches. Not nearly as bad as the rear which is probably why I thought it felt fine but even this small adjustment really helped.
While this helped the bouncy ride, it was still pretty bad so I decided to take another look at the rear preload since I had suggested specifications now. It turns out I had spring length set at 9 inches which was way too far the other way. I tightened it up to 7.8 inches and the ride quality blows me away now! It feels at least as good as OEM if not better and now the car gives me confidence to attack the corners.
Unfortunately, I ran out of light during my last test drive so there are no pictures and I think I'll need to fix my ride height again since adjusting the preload should have changed the ride height but thankfully the ride height adjustment is separate from everything else so changes to that shouldn't affect ride quality. Thankfully tomorrow is a holiday so I'll be taking a crack at fixing ride height tomorrow. If there is any change, I'll update this thread but if you don't see anything, then expect the fixed ride height to have had no affect on the ride and handling.
I will note that I have a half-track-day coming up on Thursday this week where I'll be able to put the suspension through its paces. I'll update this thread again with my experience on track.
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