Coilover questions! With pics.
12-19-11, 10:13 PM
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Coilover questions! With pics.
I am installing some stance coilovers, but I wanted to clarify two things before I started tightening things down.
First, the camber plate shown below is on the driver side. Is it oriented in the right way? Gap towards the motor to have max potential camber?
Second, the coilovers do not have a bracket for the brake line or the ABS sensor. Does this look like a reasonable solution? The abs wire seems to have enough slack for any motion in the caliper, and both are clear of movement but not debris and such. Is the repetitive movement going to cause a weak spot in the hardline?
And just as a side note, here are the original shocks after 22 years:
First, the camber plate shown below is on the driver side. Is it oriented in the right way? Gap towards the motor to have max potential camber?
Second, the coilovers do not have a bracket for the brake line or the ABS sensor. Does this look like a reasonable solution? The abs wire seems to have enough slack for any motion in the caliper, and both are clear of movement but not debris and such. Is the repetitive movement going to cause a weak spot in the hardline?
And just as a side note, here are the original shocks after 22 years:
12-20-11, 01:06 PM
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the camber plate needs to be installed so that the top of the strut can go inwards, pic isn't good enough.
for the ABS line and the brake hose, zipties are your friends
for the ABS line and the brake hose, zipties are your friends
12-20-11, 01:28 PM
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The camber plate looks right to me.
The brake line setup...not so much.
That upright hard line is just begging to get fatigued and crack, you'd be better off without it.
You could eliminate the hardline altogether (my preferred method) simply by using the soft line from a single piston caliper, which is longer and will thread into the 4-piston caliper.
Alternatively, you could rig up a clip, similar to the stock shock, on the new coilovers.
At any rate, you want to get rid of the unsupported hardline.
The brake line setup...not so much.
That upright hard line is just begging to get fatigued and crack, you'd be better off without it.
You could eliminate the hardline altogether (my preferred method) simply by using the soft line from a single piston caliper, which is longer and will thread into the 4-piston caliper.
Alternatively, you could rig up a clip, similar to the stock shock, on the new coilovers.
At any rate, you want to get rid of the unsupported hardline.
12-20-11, 02:04 PM
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Sorry, the camber picture is taken standing at the front bumper on the drivers side. The right side is towards the fender, and the left toward the engine bay.
And yeah, that was what I thought about the brake line too. I wonder if the lines out of a stainless steel kit would be long enough to work.
And yeah, that was what I thought about the brake line too. I wonder if the lines out of a stainless steel kit would be long enough to work.
12-20-11, 02:34 PM
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I was just thinking it would be nice to kill two birds with one stone. Either way, I'll order two of these until I figured that out, $6 a pop: http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=908150
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