kaison

I am currently using the GC/Koni setup.

So i recently noticed that my front passenger spring has no tension when its on a lift. Whereas, the driver side's spring seems to have some tension.
One thing that i also noticed is that the perch on the passenger is alot lower than the driver. But once the car is off the lift, the height on both sides are even.

So my question is, should I raise the perch on the passenger (Some spring tension should return right?)

Tyson

Doesn't matter.

Collars should be on the same circlip just for relative equality, and adjust the spring perches. But either way that's just preference.

But no surprise the two sides are different perch heights and at static weight sits level. You should expect that.

stupidhard

don't know if you have had this done but here is some theory....

corner balancing is something auto Xers and circuit guys like to have done to "tweak" the suspension so that the car handles evenly and consistently.

when corner balancing a car its not un common for one corner to have less "pre load" in order to take the weight from the "heavy" corner and redistribute it across the other corners of the vehicle.

the set collars on your adjustable coil overs are used to adjust pre load, which determines ride height (and to a degree weight distribution). you want the circlips on the shocks to be in the same position, if one is set higher than the other you may have a coil bind situation...

intuition tells me you didn't have a corner balancing session and that's just the way your parts got installed. no big deal... if you are just toolin around town I wouldn't worry too much about it.

if you are picky and performance minded go get it balanced... probably cost a couple hundo... ive not priced it myself.

-chris

kaison

For optimal handling/weight distribution, should the perches be even? I dont mind a bit of difference in fender to tire gap.
On a side note, I am not tracking the car, I simply want to use the koni/gc to the best of its ability. As I have already drop a decent amount of dough on it, might as well "try" to tweak it to its optimal usage

stupidhard

^ did you read my reply?

anyway measure from the bottom of the threaded collar(perch) to the bottom of the threaded sleeve on the drivers side. take your measurement and make the passenger side look like the drivers side. do the same with the rear for continuity.

that should suffice without gettin'er balanced. then at least you know that the preload is the same from left to right.

-chris

Tyson

no.

ignore the talk about corner balancing and weight distribution.

stupidhard

^why ignore it?

OP is interested in having optimal performance from his adjustable suspension...

just tryin to help the guy out... maybe I confused him.

for optimal handling, corner balancing is only a piece of the pie that includes alignment, tires, and what youre trying to achieve.

for optimal weight distribution its the same formula. you can move your battery and stuff around on the chassis or remove things all together, different engine choices also affect weight distribution. corner balancing has one foot in each category, it just boils down to how far you wanna take it when you upgrade your car.

so after reading some of your other posts I realize your car may never be tracked or raced as it were. just make sure the perches are set the same from left to right... that's all.
-chris