TRD shocks and springs

[NoHachi]

Now take a look at this badly made picture:
pic one: stock AE86, 150mm stroke. At full extension of the shock the spring is still not fully stretched. At full dynamic compression the spring would just barely hit the strut. (its stopped by the bumpstop that I didn't draw)

Pic two: TRD spacer The car is lowered significantly. The top of the strut (aka the car) is now just 20mm away from the strut. 8kg/mm springs have a stroke of ca 75mm's. Loving contact will be made by topmount and strut.
Also notice that we have tons of extension left in the shock..more then the spring has available. So the spring is no longer captive.

pic3 T3 spacer: Same problem with compression travel as TRD 60mm spacer. About 55mm to little of it. Less of a problem at full extension (but according to robo still to much extension and still no captive spring.

Pic 3: 40mm shorter housing and 20mm spacer: Still have a bit to much extension and slightly too little compression. A bumpstop will add enough rate to prevent topmount/strut contact. Extension problem is worse then with the T3 spacers (20mm worse to be exact, I did not draw this correctly yet).

[img name=]http://www.aeu86.org/download/ae86/id/13377[/img]