Tein Street Advance manual problem

[banane63]

I bought these for my BRZ, but only got Japanese installation guide
I need height values for the rings to setup height clearance of the car.
Neither my dealer nor Tein UK answer my mail for an English guide...
If someone could scan one ?

[7thgear]

not sure what the question is.


you are given choice in setting up your height, so set it up to how you need to.

[banane63]

Yes but you have to preset your height before installing the coilover, at least at the original height.
It's much easier to preset before installing instead of tuning it on the car.

[CSG David]

Originally Posted by banane63

I bought these for my BRZ, but only got Japanese installation guide
I need height values for the rings to setup height clearance of the car.
Neither my dealer nor Tein UK answer my mail for an English guide...
If someone could scan one ?

All installation manuals are in Japanese from TEIN. Look for the diagram with the letters and numbers (usually 2/3 way through the manual). The numbers should be presented on a table with values to preset with and potentially the alignment values to run (or will be seeing). If your dealer hasn't contacted you back nor provide any ability to tell you where to look in the manual, chances are, they may have never worked with TEIN suspension components before.

[Manji]

These aren't body adjustable, so I'm not seeing what is so difficult.

But anyway, here is my review on them, with some other comments that should help you.
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...8&postcount=14

Specifically.. "Above you can see the adjustability range. Yellow is actual, green is recommended. Grey shows 20mm, what its preset at. There's my first gripe, it wasn't preset at all. Seeing that I wanted about 30mm drop, wound all units up 20mm from full low. Up and down a couple of times on the hoist to get it even."

[banane63]

It's just I haven't a car elevator, and don't want to jack several times the four wheels to tune the height...
So it comes with a 20mm down setup, have I understood you ?

[Manji]

Originally Posted by banane63

It's just I haven't a car elevator, and don't want to jack several times the four wheels to tune the height...
So it comes with a 20mm down setup, have I understood you ?

The logic I used was using the height range was -50 to 0, then setting the shock at min setting would lower the car 50mm, so if I set it 20mm higher, the car would be 30mm lower. So, if you wanted the car to be 20mm lower, you'd set them up 30mm from lowest setting.

You could just do that, drive it for a week (the springs will settle) and then take some measurements and do another adjustment (which isnt hard, you just jack up and use the spanners.

The car isn't perfectly balanced, (No car is) so even setting the coils up evenly, might result in a different ride height side to side of upto say 5mm. Which is why its difficult to get it bang on straight away.

Do this...
Set coils up at above
Drive car for several days or a week
Take measurements, make minor adjustments
Then go get wheel alignment.