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Site Admin  Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:47 pm Posts: 3008 Location: North VA |
 Re: Home Brew coilovers.lol well im tight on cash this month. my bottom adjustable konis are fine for now. I don't really NEED to get new ones anyway. nothing wrong with what I got now.
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| Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:17 pm |
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Joined: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:40 am Posts: 12 |
Re: Home Brew coilovers. NICE!
i did the same work on ly last years winter car ( 85 toyota cressida ) but its very bouncy IF you dont know how much 2 cut and what shock 2 use its very hars ride then! what are you gona do for the rear? |
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Joined: Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:52 am Posts: 6 |
Re: Home Brew coilovers. madmaverick wrote: Yoshi wrote: the cosmo coilover kit is 450lbs front and 650 rear I think. the Ground Control kit is 550 front and 750 rear. i think thats 9kg fromt and 11kg rear if youre going with kilograms and 10kg 12kg for ground control. Wow, those ground control springs are pretty stiff. I have 12/10 spring rates on my S13 and its WAY oversprung, to the point that I lift tire mid-drift on flat pavement:  Im pretty sure the e30 is a lighter chassis when properly prepped and about the same weight stock, it would seem that the cosmo kit is a better rate to go with. I know this is old, but I figured I'd answer this since I was discussing that with my friend when I was going with cheap coilovers a while back... It's all the geometry and leverage needed to compress it. The E30 just has the spring located in a weird spot which bears a lot of weight and needs to be higher rates for the same amount of support as a lesser weight spring if it were right on the shock. Like if you ran a 800lb spring in the normal location, you would use like a 500lb spring if you were to have it on the shock. Also, I posted this in another unlreated thread but it applies more here  I uploaded pics of the Cosmo Coilovers that I installed a while back here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotcommie/ ... 242555007/ |
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Site Admin Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:47 pm Posts: 3008 Location: North VA |
Re: Home Brew coilovers. rear springs are 51% effective to the wheel. IE 10k springs are really 5k at the wheel.
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| Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:35 am |
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I <3 E30's  Joined: Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:17 pm Posts: 3384 Location: Appleton, WI |
Re: Home Brew coilovers. _________________  Umm....wut? |
| Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:40 pm |
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