Coilover Camber Question

[touge_ae101]

That is debatable. with racecars we corner weight them and adjust each corner to where it distributes it the most evenly. it does make a difference but not really for a road car.

What it could be though is the rear heights could be slightly uneven, so raising the side that is rattling by 1 turn or so could stop the problem. another trick is to wrap the end coil top/bottom with insulation tape.

[Kiwi-Corolla]

Your springs will have the same load on them no matter what, the weight of the car defines that. Moving the springs lower on the body of the strut is why the car sits lower, no other reason.

Shock absorbers do exactly what they say. They don't really have any more load on them when they're fully extended or when they're near on completely compressed. The are there to control the spring from continually bouncing.

Hmm, thinking about it further that makes sense. The only reason why it's not rattling when I have more gas in the tank is because the extra weight isn't allowing the shock piston to rebound back up as much, which doesn't allow it to rattle. So it makes sense that going lower wouldn't have the same effect as filling up the tank more because there wouldn't be any extra weight, however I was hoping that by reducing the travel of the shock it wouldn't rebound as much and the rattling wouldn't be a problem.

That is debatable. with racecars we corner weight them and adjust each corner to where it distributes it the most evenly. it does make a difference but not really for a road car.

What it could be though is the rear heights could be slightly uneven, so raising the side that is rattling by 1 turn or so could stop the problem. another trick is to wrap the end coil top/bottom with insulation tape.

That's a good tip. The ride height has become slightly higher for some reason since getting my alignment so I'm planning on going slightly lower all round. Hopefully once everything is nice and even the noise will stop.

[Kiwi-Corolla]

Rolled my front guards today (using a hair dryer and my factory jack handle ) and the tyres no longer scrape against the guards when going down dips in the road etc. It still rubs a bit when going around corners at a decent speed but it's only rubbing on the plastic guard liner, so when I get home I'll just whip out the heat gun and push it up higher so it stays there. At least I won't be doing any further damage to the tyres on the 200km trip back home later in the week

[tsoob]

raise the front by 5mm on the strut will fix the rub. 5mm on the strut will be like 3mm on the guard. problem solved.

who was doing the alignements? also we now do alignments if you guy need them.. have the latest hunter 2 camera system.

[Kiwi-Corolla]

raise the front by 5mm on the strut will fix the rub. 5mm on the strut will be like 3mm on the guard. problem solved.

who was doing the alignements? also we now do alignments if you guy need them.. have the latest hunter 2 camera system.

Thanks. I was actually planning on going about 5mm lower on the front, so will try and heat and push the guard lining up as far as I can to see how much additional clearance I can get. Will have to make sure I'm at least 100mm off the ground first though, lol. An easy solution would be to remove the guard liners completely, but not really keen on the idea of having the body loom exposed to the elements.

Had the alignments done at T-Rex Tyres & Alignment in Manukau. Great guys to deal with and their equipment looked very new. Good to know you guys are now doing alignments too