Hot to lower BLOX coilovers? *pictures
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Hot to lower BLOX coilovers? *pictures
I searched around google and dont understand coilover suspension or these coilovers are just a pain in the ***. So from a website I found this quote and it worked for this guy to lower his car more. But I don't understand what hes saying
Do I loosen the very bottom lock and twist the end counter clockwise? If thats correct, why cant I get the bottom metal piece to turn? Do I have to unscrew the bolt that holds that together to loosen the tightness or am I just completely wrong in every way?
most 1-piece coilovers arent ment to dump your car but there are ways around it, what you should do is droop the spring by removing the collars that raise the spring up and down and mess with the settings on the top of the damper but if that dont lower the car to the hight want it looking into getting a shorter spring with a diffrent spring rate from swift springs or ksport and extend the top hats.
Do I loosen the very bottom lock and twist the end counter clockwise? If thats correct, why cant I get the bottom metal piece to turn? Do I have to unscrew the bolt that holds that together to loosen the tightness or am I just completely wrong in every way?
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Re: Hot to lower BLOX coilovers? *pictures
The right way to do it is to lower the car using the lower mount. In some cases when you loosen the locking collars you can get the shock body to rotate into the mount. Depending on which way you rotate the shock body it will either lengthen or shorten the shock. BUT I said in some cases you can do this, not always. Typically this does not happen often so what you need to do is what I will explain below.
When you can't do it that way then you really have no choice but to loosen the bolt that holds the lower mount in place. In your picture you have the front coilover pictured. So you need to first loosen the locking ring that holds the lower mount in place. Then you need to loose the bolt that holds the OEM front fork that clamps on the lower mount so you can rotate it. Now you can rotate the lower mount and thread it on which shortens the shock hence lowering the car.
In other words you need to loosen everything in order to rotate the lower mount. There is really no way around this. This is why when we do a corner weight and installation we charge what we charge cause it does take time.
NOW when some people are not SLAMMED or LOWERED ENOUGH what they do is REMOVE preload off the spring. So let us say for example you have shortened the shock as much as possible. This means the lower mount will not thread onto the shock body any longer and has bottomed out. That means you can't shorten the shock anymore hence not being able to lower the car using that method. In order to lower the car EVEN MORE you remove preload off the spring by loosening the 2 locking collars that are backed up against eachother on the spring side.
Hope that helps.
When you can't do it that way then you really have no choice but to loosen the bolt that holds the lower mount in place. In your picture you have the front coilover pictured. So you need to first loosen the locking ring that holds the lower mount in place. Then you need to loose the bolt that holds the OEM front fork that clamps on the lower mount so you can rotate it. Now you can rotate the lower mount and thread it on which shortens the shock hence lowering the car.
In other words you need to loosen everything in order to rotate the lower mount. There is really no way around this. This is why when we do a corner weight and installation we charge what we charge cause it does take time.
NOW when some people are not SLAMMED or LOWERED ENOUGH what they do is REMOVE preload off the spring. So let us say for example you have shortened the shock as much as possible. This means the lower mount will not thread onto the shock body any longer and has bottomed out. That means you can't shorten the shock anymore hence not being able to lower the car using that method. In order to lower the car EVEN MORE you remove preload off the spring by loosening the 2 locking collars that are backed up against eachother on the spring side.
Hope that helps.
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Re: Hot to lower BLOX coilovers? *pictures
The right way to do it is to lower the car using the lower mount. In some cases when you loosen the locking collars you can get the shock body to rotate into the mount. Depending on which way you rotate the shock body it will either lengthen or shorten the shock. BUT I said in some cases you can do this, not always. Typically this does not happen often so what you need to do is what I will explain below.
When you can't do it that way then you really have no choice but to loosen the bolt that holds the lower mount in place. In your picture you have the front coilover pictured. So you need to first loosen the locking ring that holds the lower mount in place. Then you need to loose the bolt that holds the OEM front fork that clamps on the lower mount so you can rotate it. Now you can rotate the lower mount and thread it on which shortens the shock hence lowering the car.
In other words you need to loosen everything in order to rotate the lower mount. There is really no way around this. This is why when we do a corner weight and installation we charge what we charge cause it does take time.
NOW when some people are not SLAMMED or LOWERED ENOUGH what they do is REMOVE preload off the spring. So let us say for example you have shortened the shock as much as possible. This means the lower mount will not thread onto the shock body any longer and has bottomed out. That means you can't shorten the shock anymore hence not being able to lower the car using that method. In order to lower the car EVEN MORE you remove preload off the spring by loosening the 2 locking collars that are backed up against eachother on the spring side.
Hope that helps.
When you can't do it that way then you really have no choice but to loosen the bolt that holds the lower mount in place. In your picture you have the front coilover pictured. So you need to first loosen the locking ring that holds the lower mount in place. Then you need to loose the bolt that holds the OEM front fork that clamps on the lower mount so you can rotate it. Now you can rotate the lower mount and thread it on which shortens the shock hence lowering the car.
In other words you need to loosen everything in order to rotate the lower mount. There is really no way around this. This is why when we do a corner weight and installation we charge what we charge cause it does take time.
NOW when some people are not SLAMMED or LOWERED ENOUGH what they do is REMOVE preload off the spring. So let us say for example you have shortened the shock as much as possible. This means the lower mount will not thread onto the shock body any longer and has bottomed out. That means you can't shorten the shock anymore hence not being able to lower the car using that method. In order to lower the car EVEN MORE you remove preload off the spring by loosening the 2 locking collars that are backed up against eachother on the spring side.
Hope that helps.
I will try to this later tonight and let you know how it goes.
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