Suspension bought woot!
07-16-2007, 11:40 AM
#13
three quarter inch drop isn't enough to have me sweating about RCAs or drive shaft spacers.
especially the former; biggest money grabbing mod off a technical term ever
especially the former; biggest money grabbing mod off a technical term ever
07-16-2007, 02:21 PM
#14
So rather than thread jack S2Jay's thread, I figure I'll continue with my suspension ramblings here.
Picked up the car just now, and drove home. The car rides WAY better than stock on the street. (which, as it sounds, is hard to believe). It confirms what a lot of people've been saying how the OTS Koni yellows feel softer than stock; i'm fairly certain the high-speed compression is way softer. 550lb front and 430 rear translates to about 270 wheel rate front and 193 wheel rate for the rear if the motion ratio numbers found on this forum is to be believed.
The ride isn't overly harsh, as a matter of fact it isn't harsh at all. As my mechanic puts it before I left, "even a pregnant woman would have no complaint riding in it"
Cornering wise, I'll have to update later this month when I take it out to the track, but my alignment settings are as follows:
it's a variant of the UK based settings. The ONLY change I made to the UK OEM was the front toe, which I chose to have 0.05 of a degree out. Overall he did an alright job, the front right camber was off by 0.04 of a deg and the front right caster was off by 0.04 of a deg, something which I won't feel behind the wheel.
Car's dropped 3/4" all around. I can already see I should've done 0.5 front and 0.75 rear; for now the car looks dropped in the front, but not in the rear
edit: rear rebound is half a turn from full soft; just so I don't get too soft a rear rebound to load up the front too quick and have the rear end come out on me too much.
Picked up the car just now, and drove home. The car rides WAY better than stock on the street. (which, as it sounds, is hard to believe). It confirms what a lot of people've been saying how the OTS Koni yellows feel softer than stock; i'm fairly certain the high-speed compression is way softer. 550lb front and 430 rear translates to about 270 wheel rate front and 193 wheel rate for the rear if the motion ratio numbers found on this forum is to be believed.
The ride isn't overly harsh, as a matter of fact it isn't harsh at all. As my mechanic puts it before I left, "even a pregnant woman would have no complaint riding in it"
Cornering wise, I'll have to update later this month when I take it out to the track, but my alignment settings are as follows:
it's a variant of the UK based settings. The ONLY change I made to the UK OEM was the front toe, which I chose to have 0.05 of a degree out. Overall he did an alright job, the front right camber was off by 0.04 of a deg and the front right caster was off by 0.04 of a deg, something which I won't feel behind the wheel.
Car's dropped 3/4" all around. I can already see I should've done 0.5 front and 0.75 rear; for now the car looks dropped in the front, but not in the rear
edit: rear rebound is half a turn from full soft; just so I don't get too soft a rear rebound to load up the front too quick and have the rear end come out on me too much.
07-16-2007, 06:46 PM
#16
Vincent Auto @ McCowan and Bullock. Normally, I'd go to Gilman, but I don't trust his apprentices to touch my car for the suspension install. (I guarantee I won't be notified of the dust cover problem if I took my car there), so therefore I wasn't going to install the suspension in one shop and do the alignment in another.
Besides, I've dealt with vincent for 5 years now, and this is my 3rd "fun" car. He runs the shop by himself, so I KNOW everything is done by him.
Besides, I've dealt with vincent for 5 years now, and this is my 3rd "fun" car. He runs the shop by himself, so I KNOW everything is done by him.
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