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Sitting crooked after new springs/shocks?
I just put new springs and shocks (racing beat and tokiko respectively) on my SE (just the rear at the moment) and for some reason the passenger side didn't really drop. It still looks to be about the same ride height as it was but the driver side looked like it dropped the 1'' it was supposed to. The only thing I can think of is maybe one of the shock isolators got stuck against the shock tower? Would that do it or would it just compress the shock more? :scratch:
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Are you hitting the bump stop? Play with the suspension movement a bit and see if it has any jams in it. Could it be overextended?
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Lose some weight!
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Originally Posted by NCross
(Post 9401601)
Are you hitting the bump stop? Play with the suspension movement a bit and see if it has any jams in it. Could it be overextended?
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the rubber spring seat that is on the axle side is probably what you are sitting on. Happened to me before.
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Originally Posted by Jeezus
(Post 9402002)
the rubber spring seat that is on the axle side is probably what you are sitting on. Happened to me before.
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Are you talking about the front or the rear?
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The rubber isolator for the rear sits on the top of the spring. If it didn't come out with the old springs it is probably stuck to the upper spring perch.
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Originally Posted by orion84gsl
(Post 9404574)
The rubber isolator for the rear sits on the top of the spring. If it didn't come out with the old springs it is probably stuck to the upper spring perch.
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I've been doing some research on suspension cuz I wanna re do mines, and I've read that RB tends to do that, a lot of people recommend REspeed. But I'm now expert :-/
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respeed won't do that because they are adjustable :)
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It could also be that you need to loosen the watts linkage nuts
some and put the cars weight on the rear end level with the front and retighten. I hear that thats a large reason lowered springs make the car sit uneven. Mine does it ( RB springs), but I've never bothered to fix it yet. |
Originally Posted by t_g_farrell
(Post 9405658)
It could also be that you need to loosen the watts linkage nuts
some and put the cars weight on the rear end level with the front and retighten. I hear that thats a large reason lowered springs make the car sit uneven. Mine does it ( RB springs), but I've never bothered to fix it yet. |
You just messed up the cross weight of your chassis. If you care about making your car handle better, you need to get it right.
Most RX-7 racers that fine tune their chassis cross weight end up using spacers to raise up the left rear, not the right rear. Most road racers use a coil over type spring setup on the front, and they will be adjusted to make the Right Front sit a little higher, and they will add a spacer or two to get more lift on the Left too. This is because the RX-7 chassis is naturally heavy on the left front corner, and also the right rear corner carries a little more weight than the left rear corner. By tweaking the right front and left rear, they can get the weights that each tire carries to balance out better. A car will handle better if the tires are carrying equal loads than a car that has one tire carrying too much load. Your additional spacer on the right rear tire makes the standard RX7 heavy LF/RR situation even worse than standard. |
Originally Posted by speedturn
(Post 9405809)
You just messed up the cross weight of your chassis. If you care about making your car handle better, you need to get it right.
Most RX-7 racers that fine tune their chassis cross weight end up using spacers to raise up the left rear, not the right rear. Most road racers use a coil over type spring setup on the front, and they will be adjusted to make the Right Front sit a little higher, and they will add a spacer or two to get more lift on the Left too. This is because the RX-7 chassis is naturally heavy on the left front corner, and also the right rear corner carries a little more weight than the left rear corner. By tweaking the right front and left rear, they can get the weights that each tire carries to balance out better. A car will handle better if the tires are carrying equal loads than a car that has one tire carrying too much load. Your additional spacer on the right rear tire makes the standard RX7 heavy LF/RR situation even worse than standard. |
Mine did the same thing when I installed RB springs. Respeed fixed it for me. :)
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