Installing coilovers in a few hours. Anything I should know?

[strat61caster]

What you're showing isn't ideal, but is unlikely to cause any issues.

Your camber is not adjusted evenly, the multiple screw holes are there to facilitate alignments. You can make it 'look' even, but it's a gamble if it actually is unless you or someone else measures it. A good alignment shop will adjust it for you in an ideal way, but that of course costs money.

Not a bad idea to go back and button it up, but you will still need to tighten up every nut and bolt you can find to try and solve the noise if you can. It may be a spring binding on the perch, only solution would be a bearing between the spring and a perch.

Stiffer swaybar would only add another noise source as another aftermarket component that doesn't live up to OE standards. It certainly won't make anything quieter unless it corrects something like a swaybar rubbing.

[finch1750]

And also note OP that camber plates replace the oem rubber top hats so NVH will increase no matter what so it may just be something you live with from now on

[Kendallkab]

Originally Posted by finch1750

Oh. Thats just the camber adjustment. Looks ok from that angle otherwise. Though get an alignment if you havent already cuz that seems a little funky lol

Double check the spring preload and possibly try unhooking an endlink to see if the noise goes away. I would also rear the threads with other people who have the same coils to see if they have the same noise and what the fixes were.

I'm gonna mess with the preload next and get an alignment then.. that gap scared me.

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by Kendallkab

I'm gonna mess with the preload next and get an alignment then.. that gap scared me.

The way you described it scared us haha. Glad it wasnt as bad as we thought. Did the coils come with the preload adjusted already?

[Kendallkab]

Originally Posted by finch1750

And also note OP that camber plates replace the oem rubber top hats so NVH will increase no matter what so it may just be something you live with from now on

Ok.. I'm not used to noises like that lol. This is my first real life mod. I'm going to mess with preload a little bit not too much based off what someone else said.. make sure everything is tight again and then get an alignment.. the noise isn't even that loud it's just when I turn music down I hear it and I automatically think something is wrong..

No everything was loose when I got them

[ryoma]

assuming that you can set the preload and height independently, tighten up the preload collar enough so that the spring cannot move but not too much that it compresses the spring. if you want to control the height, use the other collar.

[zc06_kisstherain]

Originally Posted by Kendallkab

You can see the ground on one picture

Originally Posted by finch1750

Oh. Thats just the camber adjustment. Looks ok from that angle otherwise. Though get an alignment if you havent already cuz that seems a little funky lol

Double check the spring preload and possibly try unhooking an endlink to see if the noise goes away. I would also rear the threads with other people who have the same coils to see if they have the same noise and what the fixes were.

Just like finch1750 said it's camber adjustment. Right and Left should be same setup. Most people dont touch camber setup at home because have to get alignment so go to alignment or tuner shop and tell them what you want for camber. i would go with -1.5 or -1.6 at front and -1.0 on rear

right height is similar or same on right and left?
I cant believe your friend installed camber that way lol

[8R6]

kinda hard to tell without a wider shot for reference, but i think your driver-side tophat is backwards.

[edit] looking at your pictures closer, im almost 100% positive your tophats on BOTH sides are going the wrong way.

[zc06_kisstherain]

Originally Posted by 8R6

kinda hard to tell without a wider shot for reference, but i think your driver-side tophat is backwards.

[edit] looking at your pictures closer, im almost 100% positive your tophats on BOTH sides are going the wrong way.

it may be...L should be installed on driver side and R should be installed on passenger side.

also "L" & "R" should be readable from you standing in front of wheel.

[8R6]

Originally Posted by zc06_kisstherain

it may be...L should be installed on driver side and R should be installed on passenger side.

also "L" & "R" should be readable from you standing in front of wheel.

i think he does have the L/R in the correct sides like you described, but the tophats and camber plates look like theyre mounted in the wrong direction

[zc06_kisstherain]

Originally Posted by 8R6

i think he does have the L/R in the correct sides like you described, but the tophats and camber plates look like theyre mounted in the wrong direction

that's what i am thinking too.
it's readable from Engine to wheel point.

still OP needs to take it off and re install properly

[KnightRyderx2]

These guys are correct, those top hats are positioned the wrong way. The "L" and "R" is supposed to be on the fender side. So if you look at the first pic, the "L" needs to be on the bottom right side. This makes the camber adjustment a side to side adjustment. As you have it now your camber would adjust corner to corner and that is not cool.

As for preload adjustment, this is a pretty good write up on how to do it. Its Megan coilovers but they are set the same way. Also you can do this while coilover is on the car.

[zc06_kisstherain]

if you're in NJ, i would install it for you with little $$$

[renfield90]

WOW. OP, don't let your "friend" touch your car again. He clearly doesn't know a damn thing about MacPherson strut suspensions, putting the top hats on like that.

The gap in the plates is fine. Almost all designs do that at extreme ends of the adjustment range. What your "friend" did however, putting one top hat at one end of the range and the other at the middle, is totally bonkers, especially since he didn't have alignment tools; and it's double bonkers since the top hats are oriented incorrectly. He pretty much just gave you a random ass alignment...emphasis on the ass.

Do not bother with an alignment until you've corrected the orientation of the top hats. I would go ahead and move the right adjustment to be about equal with where the left is.