I recently redid my whole suspension with gsr components. In the process I added h&r coilovers because I got an awsome deal on them. I already tried to set the ride hieght by measuring how many milimeters between the botom thread on the shock body and the bottom coil over collar. This seemed to work ok to get them all at about the same, but judging from wheel gap they are deffinatly not right yet. Now I know that I should do it right and corner weight it but I was recently laid off from work and cant justify spending that money right now. I guess I'll get to the point, is there a better way to setup your coilovers? Should I use fender to tire gap measurments instead? Thanks in advance.
-globl

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by zyg &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'd measure either at the four jack-points on the frame rails (where the values/heights should be pretty much constant between the ground and the bottom of the jack point), or by measuring the distance from the highest point of the fender lip to the ground. Helms manuals give the fender lip numbers for stock vehicles, whereas the jack point heights could be useful afterwards for comparison.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Great idea, I did'nt even consider the jacking points.

 

maybe a bubble level laid across the shock towers would help?

 

fyi, properly cornerweighing a car will not result in even ride heights.

 

It will be pretty close though...

Honda93 and I set his car up using a tape measure at the fender wells and the jack points and when the car went to get corner weighted even after a year of driving on the setup, was near perfect and required no adjustments.

Maybe we got lucky, but that's how we started....

Used an alignment rack to ensure flat and level base to start with..

Jeff

 

Measure from the center of the wheel, to the highest poin tin the fender, this eliminates any thing that could throw you off such as tire pressure.

 

I measured the center of the fender arch to the ground. The pass. rear has a tendency to be a little higher so you have to compensate. FYI- I would measure, adjust, then drive the car a day or so then re-measure. The car will settle a little. Have a height in mind rather than just setting it level.