So over the past 2 weekends I've spent a little bit of time installing the new coilovers. Had a fair bit of trouble with the rear coilovers and their external reservoirs hitting the rear sway bar.. The front's went in with easy however with the reservoirs I pushed them as far towards the chassis as I could, yet the wheel still hits them on full lock. You can see this in the 2nd picture below, unfortunately for now theres nothing I can do, and in the future look into rack stoppers. I do plan to go with a 15x9 rim in the front possibly next year, shall have to wait until then.
Got an assortment pack of these P clips, worked quite nicely to hold the brake line as the coilovers dont come with brackets.
Onto the rear, firstly I picked up some near new yet used hard race rear camber arms as my old skunk2's had been in the car the same length as my old GAB coilovers, and they were destroyed.
And onto this rear sway bar issue.. In the picture below you can see where the sway bar bracket hit reservoir without the endlink bracket even bolted in.. Yez Racing run the same susension and they had this exact same problem, with the only solution being to redrill the lower control arm to lower the endlink. So off we went to redrill the LCA, our new drill press coming handy.
Went back home and installed them, however I still had to raise the car to try fit. You can also see in the photo above the swaybar bushing looking all weird, they came with this whiteline RSB when I bought it second hand. I went about flipping the bushing so the bigger side sat away from the reservoir which did help. In the future I'll get some new bushings.
Now with the car raised there was enough room to fit the endlinks in. There is only a mill or two to spare, I checked how it would sit with the suspension fully compressed and the reservoir moves away from the bracket slightly, so we should be sweet.
This is the height the car now sits, bit higher in the rear than I'd like but oh well it'll have to do for now atleast. I rarely drive the car anymore, only been maybe 3 times this year.. And due to this the battery was completely dead. The battery being in the boot makes it easier to jump start!
And thats about it, I played around with the shift light a bit more however it doesn't want to enter a menu to change the step size of each light.. Might play around with it tomorrow.
Tomorrow I have a track day at Wakefield, havn't been since November/December last year. My last PB was a 1.10.4 (Natsoft), 1.10.2 (RaceChrono) which I do plan to beat, I'm really wanting to enter the 1.09s. Hoping this new suspension will be the answer to this, weather forecast for tomorrow is rain from midday onwards which isn't the best of news. I'll need to spend a few sessions trying to dial in the coilovers, having 2 adjustments now on them will be interesting... oh well, I'll report back with the outcomes later in the week.
Quick service + wheel alignment today and she's ready.
Got an assortment pack of these P clips, worked quite nicely to hold the brake line as the coilovers dont come with brackets.
Onto the rear, firstly I picked up some near new yet used hard race rear camber arms as my old skunk2's had been in the car the same length as my old GAB coilovers, and they were destroyed.
And onto this rear sway bar issue.. In the picture below you can see where the sway bar bracket hit reservoir without the endlink bracket even bolted in.. Yez Racing run the same susension and they had this exact same problem, with the only solution being to redrill the lower control arm to lower the endlink. So off we went to redrill the LCA, our new drill press coming handy.
Went back home and installed them, however I still had to raise the car to try fit. You can also see in the photo above the swaybar bushing looking all weird, they came with this whiteline RSB when I bought it second hand. I went about flipping the bushing so the bigger side sat away from the reservoir which did help. In the future I'll get some new bushings.
Now with the car raised there was enough room to fit the endlinks in. There is only a mill or two to spare, I checked how it would sit with the suspension fully compressed and the reservoir moves away from the bracket slightly, so we should be sweet.
This is the height the car now sits, bit higher in the rear than I'd like but oh well it'll have to do for now atleast. I rarely drive the car anymore, only been maybe 3 times this year.. And due to this the battery was completely dead. The battery being in the boot makes it easier to jump start!
And thats about it, I played around with the shift light a bit more however it doesn't want to enter a menu to change the step size of each light.. Might play around with it tomorrow.
Tomorrow I have a track day at Wakefield, havn't been since November/December last year. My last PB was a 1.10.4 (Natsoft), 1.10.2 (RaceChrono) which I do plan to beat, I'm really wanting to enter the 1.09s. Hoping this new suspension will be the answer to this, weather forecast for tomorrow is rain from midday onwards which isn't the best of news. I'll need to spend a few sessions trying to dial in the coilovers, having 2 adjustments now on them will be interesting... oh well, I'll report back with the outcomes later in the week.
Quick service + wheel alignment today and she's ready.
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