Bilstein Shock - Spring seat circlip groove spacing?

[AzzurrA]

Hi all,

I have just had a whiteline works kit installed on my car, and i was led to believe the centre of hub to guard measurements would be 345mm front, and around 350 rear, which is what i was aiming for (alignment reasons etc)

anyway, the car is much lower than anticipated with the heights at (rounded to within a couple of mm)

Front Left - 330mm

Rear Left - 330mm

Front Right - 320mm

Rear Right - 330mm

Now, i believe what has happened is that the workshop didn't realise that the spring seats were adjustable, and just left them at whatever they were originally set at.

The car is going back to the workshop tomorrow to get the spring seats adjusted up, i'm just wondering how far apart the grooves are spaced? would it be 10mm, or higher? (Just so i can give them an idea of how many grooves it needs to go up)

Thanks in advance for the help

Jason

[Bl4cK32]

my bilsteins have 3 levels for the clip to sit at.

At the medium setting it is about the same height as your car. (33mm front, 340mm rear)

I want to go to 350mm all round, and i hope bringing it up to the top notch should fix it. I think from memory they are like 10 to 15mm apart.

I believe they can be machined to put extra levels to adjust with?....

[Sydneykid]

my bilsteins have 3 levels for the clip to sit at.

At the medium setting it is about the same height as your car. (33mm front, 340mm rear)

I want to go to 350mm all round, and i hope bringing it up to the top notch should fix it. I think from memory they are like 10 to 15mm apart.

I believe they can be machined to put extra levels to adjust with?....

I machine mine with 8mm betweeen the circlip grooves

[AzzurrA]

don't they have 3 on there already though? if so, any idea what their spacing is?

[Bl4cK32]

I machine mine with 8mm betweeen the circlip grooves  

So if i cant get the height i want (350mm front & back) i can just get some new circlip rings machined in to make the car sit there?

Do i need to change anything else like redo the valving or change springs to function with the new height (with either the top circlip setting or custom one @ 350mm)?

[Sydneykid]

So if i cant get the height i want (350mm front & back) i can just get some new circlip rings machined in to make the car sit there?

 

Do i need to change anything else like redo the valving or change springs to function with the new height (with either the top circlip setting or custom one @ 350mm)?

You can have as many circlip grooves as you like, I did a set once with 15 grooves at 4 mm each. Shock valving is not affected by height

don't they have 3 on there already though? if so, any idea what their spacing is?

I have only seen Skylines Bilsteins with 2 gooves standard, some other cars have 3, but most only have 1.

[predator]

Mine are 10mm, but I have something like 5-6 grooved in.. I found that top one was 'stock' R32 shock height.. anything below that lowered it below that (obviously)

I basically figured "well I want to lower it about 2cm using the stock springs" and put it down two positions (20mm).. This gave me exact 350mm front and rear wheel to guard - stock R32 rims on my car with stock springs. That does seem work pretty well for me, with no uneven tyre wear spotted yet.

I assume if you are going different springs (kings, whitelines, etc), the springs are already going to be that 2-3 cm lower. Therefore to maintain that 350mm you would have to put it back up that 2cm - is this right??