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Anees, When i first installed the coilovers last year i set the ride height to 40mm lower than std. The ride was extremely smooth! you couldn't tell it was lowered, well till you realised handling went up 200% lol Going lower continues to reduce body roll but travel is reduced so comfort does go, but still very respectable comfort for 19s a big drop!
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Yup you can do that with the damping! ← Sorry my fault. What I meant was... how soft can the ride be with these coilovers? Say on the softest setting how does it compare to say the ride on a standard IS200SE or the standard Altezza? Whats it like on poor surfaces and over manhole covers? (just doing abit of research )
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The rear is compressed when jacked up by about 5mm, i haven't touched bottom lock nut since i purchased the coilovers. Front, i would say the driver and passanger side springs are probably compressed about 10mm when jacked up, but whether i'm geting the most from the available travel is yet to be found out! lets see how i get on tomorrow.. Thanks alot buddy!! I owe you a beer token :D
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Okay will take measurements. By looking at your diagram, if you lower the bottom mount don't you get more travel? but you need to compress the spring alot more otherwise the car would be more than just slammed lol The of the pic on the above diagram would be the perfect compromise. Boy these coilovers are good :D
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I don't understand why i have no knocking and some people do! I must be dropped between 70-90mm, front tyre is tucked about 15mm, i get rubbing noise but no knocking. Could u take a pic with all the above measurements so i can post my findings also? Just some basic reference of mine.. Rear, when jacked up the spring is compressed, however before i put 100kilos of ICE in it was uncompressed by 15mm, so the weight meant i had to raise it. No knocking at all on the rear. Front, passanger side spring is compressed, Driver side is uncompressed when jacked up by over 25mm. I have also installed bigger bumpstops to stop the damper from bottoming out - i did have violent knocking before that even on the original bumpstops supplied by Apexi with the coilovers. I've picked up few packs of the PI Clip in bumpstops which i will be using to really fine tune the travel limits of the strut..
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Following on from last week I decided to have a go at finding out exactly what was going on with my coilovers. Started with the rears, Measured the arch to wheel centre and then jacked the car up and measured again and found that the distance had increased by 10mm. Next I measured the spring length and then slackened off the spring seat fully and measured the spring “free” length. The spring was compressed by 20mm so the weight of the car compresses the spring 30mm and with that setting I only had 10mm of strut extension before the suspension “topped out”. Next I measured the distance between the “bump stop” and the top of the damper cylinder (damper fully extended), this distance was 90mm, then I put a jack under the wishbone and lifted it till the wishbone was almost contacting the car body, total movement equalled 60mm. Decided that I would then screw up the spring seat till it contacted the spring and compressed the spring slightly so that my figuring the car would then sit with 30mm of available upward travel before “topping out” instead of 10mm and 60mm downward before “bottoming out”. I also extended the entire strut by 20mm to compensate for the drop caused by the lowering of the spring seat to give the same ride height. Put the wheel back on, off the jack and the car sat very nearly at the same height as it was when I started. Duplicated the settings on the other side e.g. spring length and strut length and off for a drive. Result, knocking gone, plus I had a creak coming from the body at the rear which I reckoned was down to the chassis twisting, that’s gone too. Sunday did the same routine on the fronts but found that the travel down was short so repeated the same set up routine to lift the car up on the spring and shorten the strut to compensate. Still got a very slight knock off the O/S/F but it is miles better than it was before. Conclusion: The knocking from the back was the suspension “topping out”, also the lack of available downward travel for the wheel was causing the chassis to twist. The front was the suspension getting near to “bottoming out” again causing a knock.
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hey folks ... just wanted to show u guys some new changes to my IS (pics fresh after installation ... fingerprints & dirt still evident on the car!!) installed a set of TRD black housing headlights..... notice there is a slight blue tinge to it ... its not the glass (so it does not affect the color of the beam itself ... to remain street legal!). Its actually, blue material that is refracted by the deflector. When I have my HIDs on, it doesnt show at all :P ... I'll be showin some pics after i get my car cleaned, since I also got coilovers installed too (after much IS200SUV critizism ... hehe)...
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Quite right mate. You can adjust the spring height, the strut length and the damping on the Apexi's ← Have you played with the Strut length? My passanger side spring is compressed when i jack the car up, but driver side spring is 1-2" uncompressed!! yet the ride height is level... Maybe i need to adjust the strut length from the bottom up so... i'm guessing they weren't set before installed on the car.... never thought the bottom C-Nut was did anything (re-bound?) Bloody Japanese manual/instructions suck! ← Thats what the C-nut at the bottom is for ..............i was takeing a look at my Kei-Office set Coilovers and they have the C-nut at the bottom ............now i know what it is for
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As i'm having the turbo conversion done i thought i'd let you all know what other mods i'm having installed / installing: Denso iridium IK22 spark plugs - Prolex strut brace - Greddy electronic boost gauge - Greddy electronic EGT gauge - Greddy electronic Oil temp gauge - Greddy auto turbo timer - Oil cooler - Helix uprated clutch - Braided brake lines - Greddy oil catch tank - TTE anti roll bars - Adonised rad panel - EBC Greenstuff pads front and back - Heat wrap downpipe TTE Coilovers I'm also getting some cosmetic mods: Rear lip spoiler with intergrated brake light - Hood struts - IS300 clear tail lights - IS 300 clear side indicators - Chrome battery bar - Single / double din head unit I'm also changing my stereo to a Pioneer AVH-p5700DVD in dash dvd with touch screen. This will also incorporate the separate Ipod adapter so as to use the ipod with the touch screen DVD / CD player. When i get the car back i'll be changing my pipe work to blue and will be chroming what i can under the bonnet. So it should look and be excellent in a couple of weeks ( hopefully less ). Cant wait Mods also planned for the future: EBC turbo grooved brake discs - TRD front lip / side skirts / rear lip.
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no spare tyre, but 100kilos of ICE didn't make it any more stable. Take out the spare wheel and drop the coilovers few more turns... i bet you reduce roll more.
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Adie, Remember in our PM's I said that I wasn't sure about coilovers - I really wasn't. But the price these were going for has made me do alot of research into them. I am not desperate for a pair but if a set did present themselves at a good price I'd be interested. The ones imi is selling (Apexi) are fantastic coilovers - I have read the reviews and they are amongst the best. Trouble is you cannot adjust dampening so you are stuck with a pretty hard ride over poor surfaces. With your turbo you would probably be better off looking into a set when you get some spare cash (whenever that may be :P :P ) to finish off your car. Not vital mind but will compliment everything else nicely. :D
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Thanks Bernard. :D Unfortunetly the guy selling them has not got back to me yet and he has not relisted them on eBay either. :( I will email him again. I PM'd Mark@TDI and he sid the Tein HA have now been discontinued. ← What was the outcome mate? You going for a set of coilovers?
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SMALL UPDATE: The spring adjusters arrived from Demon Tweaks yesterday and I got them fitted today from the garage that originally lowered it and cut my bump stops. I told him it was all his fault and said that he better fit these for free. If they don't fix the problem then I am comming back and he is going to replace my bump stops. Thank fully he didn't argue!! :D (impressed myself their - not really a confrontational person ) They were fitted and the car looked high - almost like a 4X4! Anyway have taken the car for a spin and the ride is definetly improved - its not as bouncy and no increase in the hardness of the ride either. The car has dropped abit since driving it. I think it will be a bit higher then it was - but I can live with that until I can afford coilovers. ;) THANKS AGAIN TO Monster-Mat and Gord! :)
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You think? Nothing of the sorts fella. It has Veilside rear and side skirts. Bomex front. TRD rear wing. 19's. Coilovers. Anti-rolls. Full leather re-trim to match the paint job. ICE install. A load of stuff under the hood. And it has all been fitted by painstakingly blending the bodykit into the standard body so it looks seamless.... Not quite standard fella..... ;) ← How many horses has it got Zee?
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You think? Nothing of the sorts fella. It has Veilside rear and side skirts. Bomex front. TRD rear wing. 19's. Coilovers. Anti-rolls. Full leather re-trim to match the paint job. ICE install. A load of stuff under the hood. And it has all been fitted by painstakingly blending the bodykit into the standard body so it looks seamless.... Not quite standard fella..... ;)
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Hi Anees I have TEIN coilovers, I bought them from Brettster. They are awesome, and the 'knocking' is overstated in my opinion. When I take my car up to Glossip for the paint job, you're welcome to have a listen :)
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Found them on the .COM site: http://www.tein.com/hadamp.html Look great. Not sure if they will work with the EDFC however. I don't understand this "noise" issue that members talk about. Does it mean that that when they go over a bump the coilovers creek? (Probably been asked a million times before!) Can the noise be stopped? :D
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Thanks Bazza! :D He is going to email me back tommorow with the serial no and some better pics (I hope!) If they are Tein HA mate then are the the noisy ones or quiet? :duh: (Not something I know much about) How much would I be looking at to get reconditioned? What is that exactly? I wasn't even after coilovers - but at that price its tempting! Depends on how soft the ride is. Not too bothered about lowering at all. A 30mm drop is more then enough for me. Thanks PS Someone called Lex2000 has outbid me (not that they are gonna sell becase of the reserve price.) :D ← all tiens are noisy ! its the nature of them reconditioning , if needed , not sure of cost but these units retail out at over £1200 so it will allways be a saving adjustable damping means they can be set rock hard or yankee soft , just by turning a knob
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Thanks Bazza! :D He is going to email me back tommorow with the serial no and some better pics (I hope!) If they are Tein HA mate then are the the noisy ones or quiet? :duh: (Not something I know much about) How much would I be looking at to get reconditioned? What is that exactly? I wasn't even after coilovers - but at that price its tempting! Depends on how soft the ride is. Not too bothered about lowering at all. A 30mm drop is more then enough for me. Thanks PS Someone called Lex2000 has outbid me (not that they are gonna sell becase of the reserve price.) :D
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they are tien HA good make high spec coilovers at that price you could afford to have them reconditioned at tien uk
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i'm looking for Tein Coilovers, but even at that dirt cheap price, i wouldn't even dare put them on my car. Bad shocks and springs, are the number one cause of brake failure accidents in the UK. I value my life at more than £25.00 reserve.
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Just spotted these on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=7988267804 Anybody know anything about it? Was tempted at the price but looks abit fishy to me Thanks
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Thanks for the help so far! :D I had a chance meet with Gord today (well yesterday looking at the time! ) and he suggested that I could get something that alot of people that tow caravans put on their springs to stop the suspension from "bottoming out" due to the weight. It is like a bump stop, but you put it sort of round the spring. He couldn't remember what they were called. It does the same job as a bump stop in that they limit suspension travel but the springs don't have to be taken off so wouldn't have to get a new geometry done. Any ideas what he means? Coilovers are tempting but I wouldn't want to lower the car more then it is now and I would ideally want a soft(ish) ride. I'll look into it since the price seems to have come down abit recently. I know the ride can be pretty hard with coilovers over poor roads which is what most of the roads round my end are like! :duh: @ - Mr Singh Not being able to see your amazing car at JAE was a major dissapointment! Also with your car being so low has it ever "bottomed out" on bumps - or because you have coilovers you've never had the problem?? :D Thanks
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I had to raise mine with 100kilos of ICE going in, but now the car is unsettled slightly so will be going for firmer springs. If you are doing this quite regular there is no need at all to fit coilovers if you Don't plan to go lower. Simple solution is to contact Leda Suspension and have them build some custom rear spings with higher poundage which will help keep the car from sinking its a55 to the floor.
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Using Adjustable coilovers would allow you to get the peferct height you want and they are designed to to work at almost any height with maximum efficiency, where as lowered springs are only half the solution
