Mad tyte KDM build

"Maxed out" with the stock springs, they'll have full travel (as intended by Megan). There should still be a pretty good margin left. Varies from car to car though, initial amount of travel makes the difference.

And yes, you can move the bottom mount up until that's bottomed out and not lose any travel at all. Loss of travel would only happen if you 'droop' the spring.

[andybob]

Pavel, your too humble, I know you know a lot about cars and coilovers.

Here is a pic of what they look like:



The fronts are on the left.

The bottom silver piece is what adjusts the height. In this pic it is spun as close as possible towards the spring to lower it as much as possible.

A shorter spring will allow me to run this up the shock body more so I can go lower. I can set the preload to be the same and the shock travel shouldn't be affected at all.

[PavelK313]

Well. if you say they are maxed out then I assumed that body of the shock can not go any lower and that you have almost no preload. I dont know everything but I do know a thing or two about coilovers.

[andybob]

make sure you dont run out of shock travel. What happens a lot people lower their car and its not enough. they get shorter springs and car still seats same.

Shorter springs will allow for more ride height control with the same amount of preload and shock travel. Its a clusterfuck to type out, but I've done the research. I originally thought the same as you until I took the time to really understand the design and how they are adjusted. All cars are different, but I lucked out with these and they should allow me to get pretty low with some different springs.

You are thinking about slamming 90's tercel and yet you make fun of newish KIA.
GTFO you worthless POS!

lol.

Well played Pavel.

[PavelK313]

Um... cool.

You are thinking about slamming 90's tercel and yet you make fun of newish KIA.
GTFO you worthless POS!

[PavelK313]

make sure you dont run out of shock travel. What happens a lot people lower their car and its not enough. they get shorter springs and car still seats same.

[kingston]

i just dropped mine all the way down to 1. such a nicer ride haha

[andybob]

What dampening setting are you using?

15 out of 32. I had it on 10 but it was like riding in a skid steer.

Take out the collars up front before you start ordering new stuff, that will get you an additional 1+ of low.

I'm going to, I just need to get the time.

[Kielan]

Take out the collars up front before you start ordering new stuff, that will get you an additional 1+ of low.

[kingston]

What dampening setting are you using?

[andybob]

Are you sure you got 4 cyl tib coils?

Yup.

Think about it though. Tiburons are already lower in the front than Spectra's, so they don't need much adjustment to get low. Like I said shorter springs and taking out the locker things will allow me to go almost another 2" in theory.

As it is though, these run a shit ton better than cut coils do. Its stiff, but it isn't bouncy and there is no dive or squat when accelerating or breaking.

And since the pics they have settled about 3/8" more. My fender to ground clearance is just under 23"

[kingston]

Are you sure you got 4 cyl tib coils?

[andybob]

cut em lol

lol.

I just checked and Megan makes 50mm shorter springs so I'll probably end up getting those. The only other problem I can foresee is CV boot issues and tie rod clearance. The threaded rod the tie rod is on is about a 1/2" from the frame.

[skrapez]

cut em lol

[andybob]

Installed coils today and did an alignement. Fronts are all the way down and I am pretty bummed with the results:







Gonna take out all the lock rings at some point and look into shorter springs. Oh yeah, I like my wheel color by the way...lol