LG2 GT Coilover remote
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Racer
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LG2 GT Coilover remote
Good evening everyone. I just spent the weekend, starting on Friday afternoon around 2 p.m. and just finished at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon, Sunday installing LG2 GT Coilovers, new WCC sway bars, and for the fun of it threw on a new set of break pads. All said I've got about 14 hours give or take a couple to runs to Pepboys for a couple of small items. Good news is that everything is in and the car feels great. 
Yes the shop said that the coilovers take 7 hours labor. However they have a lift and can work standing up. I have a scissor jack, which is great but still need to lay on the floor. Also the shop hours don't account for the extra work that I needed to do to get around the STS Turbo system, removing the air tubes in front to remove the front spring, having very tight tolerances re-installing the sway bar brackets that were attached to the turbo tubes in front and getting to the upper bolt on the rear sway bar brackets in back behind the exhaust tubes feeding the turbos.
Now for my question and your thoughts. I tried to mount the rears with the adjuster remote and could not get it to work. The bend was to tight and I spun off the **** on the remote twice. I finally gave up set the shocks to "H" and finished up. Other than drilling a hole in the wheel well just above the shock mount and installing an access port is there something I can do so that the remotes work?
If you decide to take this job on it also helps to have a friend or in my case a son who can help. It can be done in the garage at home, you can save over $1000 in labor, but you need the right tools and a cooler full of beer
Yes the shop said that the coilovers take 7 hours labor. However they have a lift and can work standing up. I have a scissor jack, which is great but still need to lay on the floor. Also the shop hours don't account for the extra work that I needed to do to get around the STS Turbo system, removing the air tubes in front to remove the front spring, having very tight tolerances re-installing the sway bar brackets that were attached to the turbo tubes in front and getting to the upper bolt on the rear sway bar brackets in back behind the exhaust tubes feeding the turbos.
Now for my question and your thoughts. I tried to mount the rears with the adjuster remote and could not get it to work. The bend was to tight and I spun off the **** on the remote twice. I finally gave up set the shocks to "H" and finished up. Other than drilling a hole in the wheel well just above the shock mount and installing an access port is there something I can do so that the remotes work?
If you decide to take this job on it also helps to have a friend or in my case a son who can help. It can be done in the garage at home, you can save over $1000 in labor, but you need the right tools and a cooler full of beer
Racer
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Good evening everyone. I just spent the weekend, starting on Friday afternoon around 2 p.m. and just finished at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon, Sunday installing LG2 GT Coilovers, new WCC sway bars, and for the fun of it threw on a new set of break pads. All said I've got about 14 hours give or take a couple to runs to Pepboys for a couple of small items. Good news is that everything is in and the car feels great.
Yes the shop said that the coilovers take 7 hours labor. However they have a lift and can work standing up. I have a scissor jack, which is great but still need to lay on the floor. Also the shop hours don't account for the extra work that I needed to do to get around the STS Turbo system, removing the air tubes in front to remove the front spring, having very tight tolerances re-installing the sway bar brackets that were attached to the turbo tubes in front and getting to the upper bolt on the rear sway bar brackets in back behind the exhaust tubes feeding the turbos.
Now for my question and your thoughts. I tried to mount the rears with the adjuster remote and could not get it to work. The bend was to tight and I spun off the **** on the remote twice. I finally gave up set the shocks to "H" and finished up. Other than drilling a hole in the wheel well just above the shock mount and installing an access port is there something I can do so that the remotes work?
If you decide to take this job on it also helps to have a friend or in my case a son who can help. It can be done in the garage at home, you can save over $1000 in labor, but you need the right tools and a cooler full of beer
Yes the shop said that the coilovers take 7 hours labor. However they have a lift and can work standing up. I have a scissor jack, which is great but still need to lay on the floor. Also the shop hours don't account for the extra work that I needed to do to get around the STS Turbo system, removing the air tubes in front to remove the front spring, having very tight tolerances re-installing the sway bar brackets that were attached to the turbo tubes in front and getting to the upper bolt on the rear sway bar brackets in back behind the exhaust tubes feeding the turbos.
Now for my question and your thoughts. I tried to mount the rears with the adjuster remote and could not get it to work. The bend was to tight and I spun off the **** on the remote twice. I finally gave up set the shocks to "H" and finished up. Other than drilling a hole in the wheel well just above the shock mount and installing an access port is there something I can do so that the remotes work?
If you decide to take this job on it also helps to have a friend or in my case a son who can help. It can be done in the garage at home, you can save over $1000 in labor, but you need the right tools and a cooler full of beer
