what do you use like suspensions ?
09-29-2006, 08:27 AM
Post: #14
 
Monster,

Ok, adjustability is non-existable, I have them at their lowest setting at the moment and that is just about the highest height I'm willing to run at, now that I have my swift springs for the rear it's to heigh and I'm going to need to change.

You can keep long stroke though by removing the stock perch and welding on a new ring a little lower (or clamping, talk to jamie mirror about that) so you can put the coil over sleeve on that and have more room to adjust. This is alot less work then shortening the strut and saves you the cost of buying a short stroke shock but I would not recommend going this route unless if you've already got good long stroke shocks because at some point, you will run into the troubles nohachi mentioned.

For me, it's not an option with the rear swift springs, the lowering is such that I will run into the bump stops if I keep the long stroke setup. Same would be with TRD springs. Offcourse if you get springs made, or you'd fab some sort of spacers for the rear springs to decrease the lowering to something like 3 or 4cm, you have a good chance that you can rease the front enough that you can keep the long stroke setup without troubles.

NoHachi will probably slam me for this for not knowing what I'm talking about but I have not had any problems with my current setup and hitting the bumpstops as far as I've noticed, but currently my lowering is about 2 to 3 cm. With the swift springs I'm going to 6 or so cm.

As for RCA's, I've bought them a year or so ago and I really regret not putting them on yet, yesterday I went to the MOT and saw the result of lowering your car and not putting the RCAs on. 4mm of thread left on the inner side of the front tires, 1mm of thread left on the outer side. Camber the way you don't want which means grip loss in cornering, which means understeer. So yes, RCAs are a must even with just a few cm of lowering. I would even go asfar as to say that 4cm RCAs will be insufficient with 6cm of lowering...
Why I didn't put em on yet? Cause I don't have the right bolts yet and nobody seems to sell them except for one company and I need to buy a box of 100 bolts.. So still searching Big Grin

Greetz,

Bastiaan "mux213" Olij

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what do you use like suspensions ? - Spy - 09-27-2006, 08:29 PM
[] - Mux213 - 09-27-2006, 09:37 PM
[] - NoHachi - 09-27-2006, 10:40 PM
[] - Ivan141 - 09-27-2006, 10:47 PM
[] - NoHachi - 09-27-2006, 10:55 PM
[] - Mux213 - 09-27-2006, 11:17 PM
[] - kungfumaster - 09-28-2006, 12:30 PM
[] - Mux213 - 09-28-2006, 12:51 PM
[] - NoHachi - 09-28-2006, 02:45 PM
[] - Mux213 - 09-28-2006, 02:52 PM
[] - NoHachi - 09-28-2006, 03:06 PM
[] - Mux213 - 09-28-2006, 03:14 PM
[] - mr monster - 09-29-2006, 12:50 AM
[] - Mux213 - 09-29-2006 08:27 AM
in addition to the nice write up :) - cj - 09-29-2006, 11:01 AM
[] - Mux213 - 09-29-2006, 11:17 AM
[] - mr monster - 09-29-2006, 11:48 AM
[] - jamiemirror - 09-29-2006, 11:59 AM
[] - Holli - 09-29-2006, 12:07 PM
[] - mr monster - 09-29-2006, 12:13 PM
[] - Mux213 - 09-29-2006, 12:16 PM
[] - Mux213 - 09-29-2006, 12:17 PM
[] - NoHachi - 09-29-2006, 03:40 PM
[] - Holli - 09-29-2006, 04:34 PM
[] - Mux213 - 09-29-2006, 05:01 PM
[] - Holli - 09-30-2006, 08:47 AM
[] - Spy - 09-30-2006, 11:59 AM
[] - Mux213 - 09-30-2006, 12:45 PM
[] - Spy - 10-01-2006, 01:39 PM
[] - SutteR - 10-01-2006, 03:01 PM
[] - Spy - 10-01-2006, 03:33 PM
[] - Mux213 - 10-01-2006, 04:19 PM
[] - mrgud - 10-01-2006, 04:46 PM
[] - Mux213 - 10-01-2006, 06:01 PM
[] - Apolan - 10-14-2006, 01:58 AM
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[] - Jan Pedersen - 03-26-2009, 08:40 AM
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[] - joker12 - 03-27-2009, 03:37 PM
[] - Uzelac - 04-14-2009, 10:20 PM

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