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08-09-2012, 11:56 AM | #1 |
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setting ride height sucks! big time edit ; pics added
well after the install of my clubsports i finally decided to sorting this ride height once and for all.... and what a pain in the ass it is!!
heres my thinking a setting on one perch will yeild the same ride height on the opposite perch, NO.... lol... its a painstaking process of trial and error, driving around, checking again, driving round, and the rears which require me to drop the bottom shock bolt just adds insult to injury..... complete pain in the ass.... im nearly their now thankfully but i know ive still got a good few hours ahead of me missing around with this thing... the rears are the worst by far,,, one of my perches is like near top level adjustment and the other is midway... so annoying..... probably doesnt help is have 40lb worth of s/c slung right over the passenger side front, pretty sure thats adding more fuel to this fire! lol..... another day at it saturday then!!! so basically all the perches are at different heights to get the car as level as possible!! nightmare!! F m l siiigggghhhhhh............... please somebody else tell me you feel this pain!!!!
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Yes, I feel your pain. I can't get the back to equal out. Passenger side is 1 finger gap and driver side is 1.5 finger gap. I played with it for hours, had the tech fix it slightly when doing alignment but still like this. It isn't too big of a deal but bothers me sometimes. haha
You shouldn't have that big of a difference in height settings, one at top and other half way down. My difference isn't too big. |
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If I was to corner weight this car id probably be shocked.
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08-09-2012, 03:05 PM | #5 |
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Just get it close to the ride height you want and take the car to get corner balanced? Chances are all 4 corners won't have the same height anyway after it's been properly balanced.
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08-09-2012, 05:27 PM | #7 |
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Don't forget to unhook the sway bars! And I hope your links are adjustable. Coilovers without adjustable links does not make any sense.
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08-09-2012, 06:00 PM | #8 |
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I agree it's best to be able to eliminate preload on the bars, but COs still make a lot of sense in other ways.
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08-10-2012, 04:57 AM | #9 |
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I just removed V3s off the car and installed the KW Clubsports last week. I set the front and rear perches to max then went for a quick drive and came back and measured ride height. Then I lowered the front and rear by an equal number of threads left to right and went for a drive and came back and measured.
I repeated the above process 4 times to get to desired ride heights. My left to right perches are almost at the same height (counting number of exposed threads below the perch). My V3s were the same - left and right perches were almost at the same place. Front to rear were/are obviously different so cannot and should not be compared. I have a Z4M with european headers instead of stock US that were heavier by about 10 lbs. other than that, the engine is stock. |
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08-10-2012, 05:07 AM | #10 |
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^same here
My heights were very close.
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Oh, and I never took the rear shocks out to adjust ride height. Did have to take the wheel off though.
Fronts I did without even taking the wheel off the car- just jack the corner to take the wheel off the ground. |
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^those look great!
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think ill get the car balanced professionally and let them deal with the BS of getting it all level.
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08-11-2012, 09:44 AM | #15 |
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ride height is set ..... around 15-20mm lower than stock, i can get my hand to halfway of the tyre tread so this is conservative....
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08-11-2012, 03:29 PM | #17 |
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thanks bro.... sure is pretty, im a lucky boy :-)
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Guys what everyone's opinion on the ride height of the car, take a look back at the other pics on top of page, I also took some up close ones of the gap, I can get index and middle fingers comfortably in the arch... the above pics make it look lower to to the shadow cast in the wheel wells....
should i raise, lower or leave it be?
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i would lower it another 1/2"-3/4"
i have no finger gap and i dont rub at all and my car handles 10x better than stock
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I have 2 finger gap maybe a touch more and I looks quite low.
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