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Will be installing coil over conversions soon with Viking double adjustable shocks. I got the bearings for easier spring collar adjustment. Any tips on installing? How about clocking the spring in the upper mount? Align the end with the hole like OEM? Anything else?
I’ve had front ends apart before, so I’m good on the procedures and safety concerns, so just looking for info specific to coil overs.
Drop a nail down he top hole and rotate the spring untill it makes contact. Of course spin the collar to the bottom to make it short and connect the lower arm. Then you can expand the coil up.
If the normal coil it out the rest is pretty easy.
Start out about 1 3/4 inches of threads on the botton to the collar to start and it's easier to lower later than lift. Enlarge the bolt holes like previously mentioned. You install them and go drive around stomping on the brakes at slow speed to settle them out and then disconnect the sway bar on one end to set equal ride hight both sides unless you have the spring ends like mine.
What spring rate did you go with. I just put 450's on a 69 SBC that I did for a friend last week. Mine are 650 in the picture with a light weight front end.
What spring rate did you go with. I just put 450's on a 69 SBC that I did for a friend last week. Mine are 650 in the picture with a light weight front end.
I went with 350# on the manufacturer recommendation for my base small block coupe; no track intentions whatsoever, just spirited street driving with a good ride quality.
I went with 350# on the manufacturer recommendation for my base small block coupe; no track intentions whatsoever, just spirited street driving with a good ride quality.
I drove around for 20 years with the VB&P 550# one inch shorter springs. I got the same bad information from QA-1 techs that small blocks NEEDED 350 pound springs and nothing more. I already knew that 550# caused me too much front end dive when braking. So I bought 600, 650 , and 700# springs from Speed direct instead of the crap from the techs. My buddy with the 69 really likes the 450's
The guys at Viking know their stuff and also are race guys themselves I was on the fence with several brands of coil over shocks and was referred to them by some very fast auto cross guys and one of them being Bill Graves who has one the good guy's auto crosser of the year awards . If you go on Instagram and look up Viking Performance you can see they are avid racers and that's what sold me on their product which will be the crusader series triple adjustable 700 pnd springs in front and 550 in rear on my 69, for the price point and a billit shock with valving made for your application you can't beat them.
Wrong! too much road dust. That is really bad information! Even in my off road racing machine the most I have ever done is a squirt of penitrating oil and then blow it off with brake cleaner when I'm done adjusting with Fox shocks
This large notice came with the shocks, so I will be putting “some” on there. They don’t say how much though…
I looked back through my old QA-1 stuff and all I found was to always adjust them with NO weight. Like the wheels hanging down. At he shop none of the race cars ever had anything on the threads permanently. use anti seize if you want in the direction you are going and then clean off. I've changed to penetrating oil because it blows off easier with brake cleaner.
I do admit I can see that with an aluminum collar and aluminum body shock you have to be careful about screwing up the threads.
I put the anti-seize on mine too. I can see a concern with road grit; I can also see a concern with galled/stripped threads. And my car is parked where I need to drive it down a block of dirt road to use it. I think I will spray the coil-overs with brake clean and apply new anti-seize before adjusting them. What say, gk? Good idea?
Finally got around to installing the coil overs. (Fronts only). These pics are immediately after install and a few short hard brakes to make the nose dive. Adjustment is all the way down.
Will the springs drop some more after settling in?
Front coil over installation tips?
