slo_hatch

is it possible to put ground control extended tophats on function and form type 1 coilovers?

STOCK_SOHC_DX

Not this again.

slo_hatch

i tried searching for it on google but didnt find it. figured it would be easy to give a yes or no answer...you really could have posted an answer or a link since you act like youve seen it 200 times.

dandaman15

The other guy that tried this did not like the result. It made the ride really bouncy and crappier than it already was.

mitsubishiv5

it depends on the height of your spring, and most likely if you drop the car and you messed the preload up, you'd have some sort of slack at the spring.

But if there is very minimal slack at the spring............you wont be able to fit a tophat. Unless you find a shorter spring that will sit flush with the tophat, then produce a preload.

STOCK_SOHC_DX

The reason is the FF shock is already short body and is not made to have droop travel (the distance a shock travels between loaded and unloaded.) So now by using those Top hats you will be losing piston travel.

PatrickGSR94

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Exactly. Short body shocks + extended top hats = baaaad idea. Shocks will be topping out all the time, which means the tire will have trouble maintaining contact with the road on uneven surfaces. Basically your tires will be hopping and skipping all over the place.

slo_hatch

so in order to go lower i have to mess with the preload? i have heard of people messing with it and it still riding pretty good but i dont wanna take a chance on messing up my new coilovers. one guy with a prelude told me that he used his stock sh tophats and his car was really low.. thats what im wanting without messing with preload. so my only option is the preload?

STOCK_SOHC_DX

No, those shocks are most likely the lowest you can go with them without really riding like crap.

STOCK_SOHC_DX

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