Stupid question of the day, coilovers?

[Hall1836]

As you tighten the coils do you raise or lower the body, in addition to compressing the spring?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Hall1836

As you tighten the coils do you raise or lower the body, in addition to compressing the spring?

As you move your spring collar up, your car will go up higher as well. But it's not a 1 to 1 ratio. Meaning if you want to move your car up an inch you will move the spring collar up by less than an inch -- maybe three-quarters, maybe two-thirds, but you get the idea. That's on my car, though. Your car's spring to results ratio will be different, but still similar.

EDIT -- After getting your ride height perfect you should do final adjustments with your car on scales. Getting your corner weights just right makes a tremendous difference in the way the car drives.

[Ron61]

Also if you have adjustable rebound settings you may need to change those for the feel you want. Mine had a small hex type knob that you turned with your fingers to ease or stiffen the rebound and had 12 settings. If I lowered or raised the car any I had to adjust them for whichever track or even for just street driving to get it to feel right to me.

Ron

[mdross1]

Originally Posted by patrickt

As you move your spring collar up, your car will go up higher as well. But it's not a 1 to 1 ratio. Meaning if you want to move your car up an inch you will move the spring collar up by less than an inch -- maybe three-quarters, maybe two-thirds, but you get the idea. That's on my car, though. Your car's spring to results ratio will be different, but still similar.

EDIT -- After getting your ride height perfect you should do final adjustments with your car on scales. Getting your corner weights just right makes a tremendous difference in the way the car drives.

Exactly,what should be done, have the car scaled.It will never be right if you don't.Ask me how I know?

[patrickt]

This is what we used. DCDoug and I had a thread just recently about renting corner weight scales. But almost every local Cobra Club has somebody that actually owns a set (and you only need them for the afternoon). Fill your tank up about half-way, put something in the driver's seat that weighs what you do, then adjust to try and get a 50/50 cross-weight. Don't forget to loosen your sway bars first -- the pre-load will skew your numbers.