FD Dropped... One side lower still seeding?
 

I put tein S-tech's on the seven the other day and it has dropped a good amount but one side is sitting lower then the other, it's only been 3 days so should I give it more time or is this kind of odd?

Seeding? As in planting grass? Or seating, as in bedding in?
Just bustin' your balls man...lol!

Are you sure you have the same springs on all four wheels? Same rate and all that?
How much difference are you seeing?

Mine didn't settle or anything like that, everything should seat the 1st time you drive the car.

haha, that's the exact same thing I thought when I first read it...

ok, i put these in and they sit perfect! you have to look at the spring rates and and the spring height to make sure they are in their correct location

its not uncommon for fds to sit uneven even tho the all the settings are the same

very possible that you put them in the wrong location. the rear springs are different than the fronts

This is a well-documented issue with many old threads about it (e.g., https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...uneven+height).

My car is the same exact way.

25.5 inches from fender to floor on driver and 26.5 from fender to floor on passenger.

Its rather annoying because from certain angles looking towards the driver side, the car looks perfect, like a perfect drop. Then i look at the passenger side sometimes from certain angles and it looks like a 4x4, especially with the stock wheels on.

Im getting coilovers soon and im gonna correct this. Even if i have to adjust the height to a lower setting on the pass than the driver side to compensate this problem.

Dang, I'm surprised no one chimed in with the right answer on this one - it's a well documented problem.

The front driver's side shock mount is likely VERY worn. The driver's side mount sags moreso over time since there's normally just one person in the car, so that mount takes the most abuse/compression.

When I installed my Eibachs some time back, I put two brand new front strut mounts on. Measured all the way around afterwards, and the ride height was identical, left and right.

It's a good idea to do new strut mounts all the way around, but as they're a little pricey, just do the fronts if nothing else. The fronts take the majority of the abuse.

Guys, ride height isn't THAT tricky. It's set by the spring, and considering the spring has a big ol' rubber mount up top that's deformed by the old shock, there's the problem. Shocks don't play into this - good shocks can easily be compressed and extended *by hand*. They don't have enough force either way to affect ride height.

BTW, if you notice when you pull apart shocks and springs, the top spring mount has an indention where the spring fits into. New ones are totally *flat* on the bottom.

Dale

Thanks very much I never would have thought of that. I installed the front's and the rears correctly an I know they are the right rates too. Finally makes sense though.

You're talking about this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/KYB-S...spagenameZWD1V

I thought a set of coilovers come with the upper mounts? I dont get it.

dale i cannot agree with u. me and a friend here in jeresy tried intensively to find and correct this problem. swapping fronts, adding new rubbers all presented the same result: the driverside being lower. finally i invested in coilovers and i STILL had to lower the pass side more in front and back.

my conclusion is that the issue MOST of the time has nothing to do with shock or spring, but more with chasis or other busings maybe?

ive dealt with this issue since 30k miles

I put brand new mounts/springs/shocks and got a .75" difference in ride height in the front - the passenger side being higher. The stock mounts can certainly compress somewhat but not sufficiently to explain a .75" side-to-side difference.

There are lots of old posts on this in the suspension section with consistent reports of the passenger side riding up to an inch higher than the driver side. One of the most plausible theories to explain this is that the suspension was designed for RHD cars and would ride level with the driver (and steering rack) on the right of the car.