Hi Everyone,
I just finished the install of my BC coilovers this past Sunday. I spent a lot of time installing the remote adjusters. I had a similar idea as timmay but trimmed the cables so that the knobs are situated just below the spreaker grills in the same corner of the grill as timmay. There is just enough room for the knob to sit below the grill. To make removing the speaker grills a little easier and prevent breaking the hold-down tabs, I trimmed the opening for the front tabs just a little. Unfortunately, the cables have to bend around the speaker enclosure which causes some binding but you can still feel the "click" of each adjustment. Overall, I'm really happy with how the install turned out.
In terms of strut/shock settings, I'm currently running 16 clicks from soft on both front and rear. They came from the factory set at 8 from full hard. That was definitely too firm.
What ride heights are you guys choosing? I'm finding that getting the heights at each corner where I want it, to be a lot of work as making an adjustment at one corner affects the opposite corner. Definitely an iterative process. I thinking about getting a corner weight balance but I'm not sure it will be worth the money since I only do 1-2 track days each year.
I know that the standard for height measurement is from center of the wheel to the top of the wheel well but I couldn't come up with an easy way to consistently determine this measurement so I decided to always measure from the floor. Anyways to make measuring ride height consistent, I made a "jig" to hold a yard stick vertically but square to my floor and centered across the wheel so that all of my measurements are made in the same position. I set my tire pressure to 37 psi at all corners. Using this method, my before ride height was
RF:25-7/16"
RR:25-5/16"
LR:25-13/16"
LF:25-5/16"
After a bit of tweaking, my ride height is currently
RF:25-1/4"
RR:24-13/16"
LR:25-1/16"
LF:24-7/8"
By the way, I previously had H&R front lowering springs installed and stock rear springs. I did visually notice the significant difference in the "before" heights in the rear and was trying to even this out a bit.
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Has anyone noticed that after installing the BC coilovers that the steering doesn't return to center as it did previously? I now have to help it return to center. I noticed that the top spring perch doesn't turn. I thought it would with the "pillow block" bearing set-up. I bought my set up from Tristan at Circuit Motorsports and sent him an email about it. I'm wondering if the round inserts that seat into the top and bottom of camber plates need to be greased. In my case, my coilovers did not come with the camber plates because of some mix up at the factory in Taiwan. They sent me the camber plates separately and I had to install them myself. They did not come with any grease. No instructions about greasing them so I just replaced the rubber mounts with the camber plates and pre-loaded them with 3mm of compression per Tristan's instructions.
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