How does on choose what ride height to use when running on coilovers such as Ground Control?

I know I would purely just see how low it looks and leave it at the desired height, however what is the technical way of lowering it for performance?

 

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I have GC's and I do the same. Look and adjust accordingly. I was thinking it may be a good idea to somehow mark numbers or something on the coilover sleeve. That way you could adjust each corner to the same number. But since I already put mine on I don't really want to do that haha.

 

The best way is to adjust it so it looks pretty even on flat ground, then get the car corner-weighted, then get an alignment w/ that setting and then leave it. Don't go around adjusting them up and down or that will mess up the alignment. Corner-weighting will help make the most of your suspension's potential.

If you are on stock suspension now, measure from the ground to each jack point all around, then keep measuring to those points when adjusting the coilovers to determine the amount of drop.

 

Okay I understand what you are all saying however:

1. With a heigher or lower ride height, which ones handles better?

2. What height do you adjust to?

 

I would adjust might hight to gain or loose camber, generally I would lower most cars around 2 inchs as this gives a car some where between -1.0 -2.0 degress of camber, plus the lower you go the more suspension travle you loose and the possiablity of ridding on your bumpstops and having a really really bad ride.

 

It will depend on your shocks too. On my Koni's I have them firmed up so that my wheels don't bump into the frame of the car going over bumps. Lowering the car is going to give it better handling but then you have the camber issue. Some camber helps but too much is bad. On a street car no camber would be best since it will save you on gas mileage and tire wear. I've got mine lowered to about 1.5" and I'll have a camber kit on soon to fix my camber problem.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by WhitEdRift &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> I've got mine lowered to about 1.5" and I'll have a camber kit on soon to fix my camber problem.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Repeat after me... "Camber does not wear tires out, Toe Does" Repeat..

Seroulsy why would you want to fix you camber problem when you only have -1.5 degrees of camber, that is what I would consided a good amount of camber for most integras, del sol's and civics.