Hey guys, my bud and I just adjusted my suspension and I wanted to run it by you guys what we did. We basically measured the distance between the coilover (Ground-Control) and the KONI Yellow shock which was measured by the distance of the thread on the sleeve between the two. My question is we adjusted the sleeve clockwise which was the direction of "up" on the sleeve itself it said this. Was this the correct thing to do to lower the car more, since we basically compressed the spring more which gave less travel to the shock? I figured I'd ask before I started driving it tomorrow. Thanks

God bless,
Mike

 

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To raise the car up: raise the perches up. To lower the car, lower the perches.
Lowering the car too much will reduce your shock travel, although in a way raising the car too high (via the spring perch) is also reducing your total shock travel.
Measure the height of the car by the distance from the ground to your jacking points. If they are equal at all four points, your car is sitting level.

 

Is the perch the gold ring thing that raises up and down? If so, then I raised that up so I guess I raised my car rather than lowering it. However, I was under the impression that by raising the ring that would be lowering more since I'd be compressing the spring more, additionally...I thought this because there's so much room to go up on the sleeve then it is to go down. So I figured that by going up would lower the car more for some reason, since my Koni's/GC coilovers can be lowered up to 3.5". And ive only lowered it 2.25 so far, so I did I actually raise or lower the car?

Thanks,
Mike

 

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Is the gap between your tires larger or smaller than when you started?

How they were packaged, and where the spring seat was when shipped really has nothing to do with the amount the car can be dropped. There are different spring lengths available, and there are other factors involved.

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I guess it might be theoretically possible to compress the spring enough to have it lower the car, but that would give you some pretty bad handling characteristics. Lower the perch to lower the car. On a GC setup, you really shouldn't be compressing the spring anyway; everyone I've come across has had a gap between the spring and tophat mount at full droop.

 

So essentially I was supposed to lower this more -



and I wasn't supposed to raise it on the sleeve? So by raising the yellow ring (Guessing that's what the perch is) I raised the height? I just don't get why that's so because I have so much room to go up and very little on the sleeve to go down.

Thanks

 

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Down = lower

Up = raise

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That may be just the way they were packaged. What lenght / springrate did you order? What does the car look like? It doesn't matter where the perch is, if the car is lower to the ground, you've lowered the car.

 

I definitely raised the car, so my bud and i are going to redo it this tuesday. thanks for all your help guys and god bless