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Old 06-28-2020, 05:54 PM  
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Originally Posted by Lav View Post
You're supposed to loosing the bottom most collar (to the right, up the thread body), then twist the bottom green cup to eat up more of the threads to lower the car right?
That's a common misconception. In most cases you should use the top collar (a.k.a. preload) to adjust the ride height, and only use the bottom adjustments to fine-tune the compression/droop travel. This is especially true for the front suspension on FT86 cars, where the compression travel is known to be limited by the fender liner. Here's a video that explained this to me very well: https://www.racecrafthq.com/introduc...ment/recording, jump to around 25:00 in the video.
This video also explains why some higher-end coilovers don't have the body length adjustments altogether:


A good starting point for all dimensions for these TEINs is provided in the manual that came with them.
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