Who has coil over shocks?? Step inside
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Burning Brakes
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From: Keller Texas
Who has coil over shocks?? Step inside
I have picked up a set from a guy and started installing the lastnight. When I started to hook up the sway bay to the a-arm in hits the spring on the coil over. There is not enough clearance between the sway bar and the coil over....What is the solution? Has anyone had this problem??
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From: Keller Texas
Originally Posted by conv90
Do you have some contact information...this is just a web site. Am I missing something?
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From: Milan
Originally Posted by RED LT4
Do you have some contact information...this is just a web site. Am I missing something?
-Beppe-
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Burning Brakes
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From: Keller Texas
Originally Posted by redrose
trash the sway bar and go up a step or two on spring rate to get same anti-roll
Not for sure if I know what you are talking about on the spring but it has a 400lb spring as I am told. Coil overs are new to me
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St. Jude Donor '03
You need to move the swaybar foward an inch or two. This is common with all coil-over setups.
On Mo's website he shows where he had to move the swaybar 7/8s of an inch to make it fit. Beppe is telling you to contact him due to his first hand experience with moving a sway bar which is shown by his website.
Reading is fundamental.
and
"Trashing" the swaybar would be a dumb idea.
On Mo's website he shows where he had to move the swaybar 7/8s of an inch to make it fit. Beppe is telling you to contact him due to his first hand experience with moving a sway bar which is shown by his website.
Reading is fundamental.
and
"Trashing" the swaybar would be a dumb idea.
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From: Keller Texas
Originally Posted by VictorRussell'92
You need to move the swaybar foward an inch or two. This is common with all coil-over setups.
On Mo's website he shows where he had to move the swaybar 7/8s of an inch to make it fit. Beppe is telling you to contact him due to his first hand experience with moving a sway bar which is shown by his website.
Reading is fundamental.
and
"Trashing" the swaybar would be a dumb idea.
On Mo's website he shows where he had to move the swaybar 7/8s of an inch to make it fit. Beppe is telling you to contact him due to his first hand experience with moving a sway bar which is shown by his website.
Reading is fundamental.
and
"Trashing" the swaybar would be a dumb idea.
OK now we are getting some where.....thanks for your help and I just wasnt for sure if that was the idea......thought that may be what he was saying. Didnt know the sway bar would cause problems
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Originally Posted by RED LT4
OK now we are getting some where.....thanks for your help and I just wasnt for sure if that was the idea......thought that may be what he was saying. Didnt know the sway bar would cause problems
Its no biggy. All coil over setups (DRM, QA1, etc) have to move the front swaybar. I hear its not hard to do but I would contact Mo or forum member Jeff about it.
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Originally Posted by redrose
dumb is not knowing what you're talking about...go study suspension design
I have to agree with VictorRussell92 on this one. Unless this is an all-out race car, going with a spring rate higher than 400lb (read very very stiff) will make for a horrible ride on the street.
My advice, Keep with the 400lb spring rate, and relocate the sway bar.
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There just isn't a need to get rid of it. I can easily be relocated, and it is an important part to suspension geometry. Unless its a pure dragrace car...why would you want to get rid of it?
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''a horrible ride on the street''...urreka!!!!-- a hint that someone might know what ''sway'' bars really do.
but how can you say 400 in lb is the limit? why not 425 or 450? i would need to know corner weight, spring inclination angle,etc to even say 600 would be excessive,given that i don't expect anyone to change from what is already a highly ''sorted out'' street system unless ''racing'' was intended.
btw-- i was at watkins glen when a young fellow named Greenwood unloaded his c3/l88 with NO sway bars and proceeded to blow everyone else (us included) off the track until his engine expired--despite predictions from all the "experts" to the contrary
but how can you say 400 in lb is the limit? why not 425 or 450? i would need to know corner weight, spring inclination angle,etc to even say 600 would be excessive,given that i don't expect anyone to change from what is already a highly ''sorted out'' street system unless ''racing'' was intended.
btw-- i was at watkins glen when a young fellow named Greenwood unloaded his c3/l88 with NO sway bars and proceeded to blow everyone else (us included) off the track until his engine expired--despite predictions from all the "experts" to the contrary
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From: Hayward CA
Originally Posted by redrose
''a horrible ride on the street''...urreka!!!!-- a hint that someone might know what ''sway'' bars really do.
but how can you say 400 in lb is the limit? why not 425 or 450? i would need to know corner weight, spring inclination angle,etc to even say 600 would be excessive,given that i don't expect anyone to change from what is already a highly ''sorted out'' street system unless ''racing'' was intended.
but how can you say 400 in lb is the limit? why not 425 or 450? i would need to know corner weight, spring inclination angle,etc to even say 600 would be excessive,given that i don't expect anyone to change from what is already a highly ''sorted out'' street system unless ''racing'' was intended.
Hold on there fella....you're reading tooo far between the lines here. Nowhere did I say limit. He already has 400lb springs with the coil-overs in his possession. I'm merely suggesting he keeps them, and relocates his sway-bar.
btw-- i was at watkins glen when a young fellow named Greenwood unloaded his c3/l88 with NO sway bars and proceeded to blow everyone else (us included) off the track until his engine expired--despite predictions from all the "experts" to the contrary
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Originally Posted by redrose
btw-- i was at watkins glen when a young fellow named Greenwood unloaded his c3/l88 with NO sway bars and proceeded to blow everyone else (us included) off the track until his engine expired--despite predictions from all the "experts" to the contrary