Try checking the top of the spring perches. There is a piece of rubber that acts as a spacer and after time they get smashed and deteroiates. That decreases the the ride height of the car and causes tire rubbing before bottoming out the shocks. The piece of rubber also holds the shaft cover.

I added a rubber spacer between the tops of the spring and the mount. That solved 90% of the rubbing except at the track under hard cornering. BTW, I'm running R1 shocks and Eibach springs.



-Jeff

 

how thick of a spacer, did you just use rubber washers or did you have to cut it out of rubber belt material or something?

is this more of a band aid fix, or is it esentially the same as buying the new mounts?

 

Well, I think new mounts were about $60 each?? I wanted to experiment plus I hated the rubbing and scraping. I bought a rubber spring spacer from JC Whitney. When I received it, the rubber spacer looked like it was for an American van. The spring diameter of the rubber spacer was huge. So I cut it in half lengthwise and took a few inches off the circumference using the bandsaw. It was close enough now. The rubber spacer is about .05-1" in height after hacking it up. That increased the ride height considereably.

It's kinda ghetto but I have no plans of buying new mounts or messing with them anymore.

-Jeff

 

what mount is it, could someone please refer to it by number on this picture?

 

My Eibachs sagged alot towards the end of their life, but they were fine for a long time

how long is a long time?

I think I should buy the RS-R race springs, but with too stuff springs yoru weight transfer sucks for launches

the stockers are fine unless you are really crusing in the corners, and it's nice to fly right over speed bumps instead of doing a gay sideways ricer maneuver

 

All the rubber around the upper part of where my shock mounts looks good?!?

 

I've had a few cars lowered with either eibach or H&R's and I can say that the H&R's were the better out of the two.