Are you the person with the Sliver Ap2 on the (Sport Compact S2000 shoot out) is that your car cause if so it is quit impressive tunning on the suspension that you guys did.

 

so from full hard, compression should be turned a little less than half way to full soft correct?

 

I can neither confirm or deny...lol wait for the SCC issue! (and thanks for the complement)

I do have an SP1 and we are doing very BAD things to it!!!

 

yes

 

I just get sick when I see posts like this CHEAP coilovers are "ride height independent" they have no travel and are just plain solutions to using a parts bin to make up a suspension setup. these types have a pre-load it's the weight of the car against the spring. The problem is they have no Pre-load to allow droop travel and this lifts the tire prematurely off the ground in real world applications. they also take more spring travel to develop the force to resist body roll forces (note how high the spring rate are) Springs are POTENTIAL ENERGY they must move from their static at rest static length position to develop the resistance forces to the change in direction..."preload" has the spring poised for ACTION. and allows more travel both UP AND DOWN on all 4 corners to keep the tire in contact with the road. In a recent track day event we had less than HALF the spring rate as the other S2ks (80Nmm) and no rear swaybar....and went VERY FAST...all with "preload"

 

how are people able to tell how many full turns they did on the compresssion adjustment? Because it only lets you turn it a little bit at a time.

Also, when people are saying 1.5 turns, does that mean a FULL turn and a half(75% open to full soft), OR literally 1.5 turns from full hard. (the little openening for compression only lets you turn a little bit at a time, not whole half turns.)


btw, thanks for the helpful reply guys.

 

So what were you running instead of these "cheap" coilovers?

 

For me, I mean one and a half turns from full hard/stiff.

 

KW Variant 3 coilovers

 

so starting from full stiff

tool in, turn (1 turn of tool=1/2 valve)+turn+turn equals your 1.5 turns???

or do you mean

tool in, turn+1/2 turn?