Budget Coilovers

[Mano25det]

It's still gotta be jacked up, but you don't have to remove the shock, you just take a measurement sitting on ground, wind in or out how much extra you want on the shock body then put the wheel back on and take it off the stands.

You can adjust the camber yourself but unless you have experience doing your own alignments at home (string line etc)you'll just be guessing. Best to have that done by someone else, you can put the stock eccentric bushes at the same "point" in rotation but that doesn't account for anything that might be slightly bent on the car and beleive me it's more common than you think to have a .5 degree bend in the wheel hub carrier that throws everything out.

yeah so i would just leave the shockie the coild overs come with in the spring and just unbolt and do back up. sounds easy. i will look into those BCBR's

Thanks for your help mate. (gonna stick to 100mm off ground with 18's - think 100mm is still the limmit

[No Crust Racing]

yeah so i would just leave the shockie the coild overs come with in the spring and just unbolt and do back up. sounds easy. i will look into those BCBR's

Thanks for your help mate. (gonna stick to 100mm off ground with 18's - think 100mm is still the limmit

Pretyty much, you just undo the locking nut, with the c-spanner, then rotate the whole assembly until you have either less thread visible on the shock body (lower) or more (higher) and measure the difference.

Easy peasy.

[jjman]

yeah so i would just leave the shockie the coild overs come with in the spring and just unbolt and do back up. sounds easy. i will look into those BCBR's

Thanks for your help mate. (gonna stick to 100mm off ground with 18's - think 100mm is still the limmit

yeah 100mm is pretty low. Especially if you have a stock bodykit. N if you have an aftermarket bodykit then u risk damaging that.

I used to have mine at dead on 100mm n scraped my arse everywhere. Now at 120mm n barely ever scrape. Car handles better too not being so dumped...

also remember when you are adjusting the height, to check it you need to not only take the car off the jacks but also compress the suspension again. You can do this by pushing down/bouncing eaither corner but easiest way is to just take it for adrive n go round a few corners, accelerate n break a bit. That way you know that is exactly how it will sit.

Edited August 25, 2011 by jjman

[No Crust Racing]

Yep yep, remember it's 100mm at the lowest point, If they wanna be nasty about it.