I can has suspensions

[Matt D.]

Just like Scheides did recently, I suffered from holes in my engine bay today.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/mdereus/coilovers/5bbcfd22.jpg

But luckily I had these on hand!

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/mdereus/coilovers/13814923.jpg

Might as well do the rear swaybar while we're at it.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/mdereus/coilovers/d0fa83f0.jpg

Had the JDM slam going on at first... Ooops.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/mdereus/coilovers/77105c6e.jpg

But we got it figured out, 1.25" drop in the front, 1" in the rear. Sitting next to Kracka's car.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/mdereus/coilovers/e56c4c2f.jpg

Thanks to Scheides for use of his garage and tools, thanks to Kracka for helping turn wrenches, and for keeping me cool when one bolt was about to make me cry. :nope:

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/mdereus/coilovers/d42d6161.jpg

Last but not least, thanks to Anna for letting me occupy her husband for the afternoon. :)

[scheides]

Suspensions make me cry but the end result is always worth it! Nice day to be turning wrenches (or grunting and *trying* to turn them until our hands bled).

The scene:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/august2008/IMG_7955.sized.jpg

Impact wrench:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/august2008/IMG_7961.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/august2008/IMG_7962.sized.jpg

insert ksport here:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/august2008/IMG_7963.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/august2008/IMG_7964.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/august2008/IMG_7965.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/august2008/IMG_7966.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/august2008/IMG_7967.sized.jpg

3 dropped evos....its a beautiful thing!
http://www.scheides.com/albums/august2008/IMG_7969.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/august2008/IMG_7973.sized.jpg


I must say, they are a bit stiff, but dang the car handles awesome! The ride is not a kidney killer by any means, definitly liveable on a DD with the intent of a weekend warrior! Now let's see that thing tear it up mattD!

[FattyBoomBatty]

Should have left it low in the front like at first. That's hotter than a hot tamale.

[blageo23]

Looks good! I like the pic of the 3 evos.

[brando]

why was it so low at first?

[scheides]

With these coilovers, we had no way of knowing how they were set out of the box. In fact, they were not set *at all* out of the box, but merely basically assembled, not tightened or pre-set in any way.

We made a guess as to where they would be, and were way wrong. The car was so low, we could hardly get jacks back under the car to lift it back up! :D

Too low :P

[Kracka]

Nice setup, glad we got it installed!

[polishmafia]

You had me at "I can has" LOL ;)

Looks really good. That pic without setting the coilovers makes your car look like its on bags!

[Matt D.]

These are the Ksport Kontrol Pro coilovers. Some basic car-specific installation instructions for the coilovers would have been nice, the 4 pages of paper that obviously came from a copy machine instead of a printer did nothing but say what would void the warranty, what each part of the unit does and how to adjust it all.

Overall the parts are good quality and I'm happy with the purchase, seems that you get a lot of bang for your buck considering there are coilover systems out there that cost $2000-5000 and these were under $1000.

The swaybar is Whiteline's 24mm adjustable. I put it on the middle setting for now so I do have some adjustment either way depending on how the car feels. Swaybars make more of a difference in longer corners where there is sustained load so I may have to put it to the next highest setting to get what I want out of it for autocross. Installing the swaybar seemed like it was going good until it came to remounting it. This unit reuses the stock brackets and replaces the bushings with harder ones. The way the stock brackets work is just fine, but the aftermarket bushings just mess that all up. If you do get this swaybar I suggest looking into a different mounting bracket as well.

The car was extremely planted this morning going around the cloverleaf from 694 west to 35W south. The shocks are set to 24 out of 36 stiffness settings (36 being the stiffest), the springs were hand tightened for preload just so there was no slack in them.

I have a Whiteline 26mm front swaybar as well but I may not end up installing it after feeling how it is already. There are two autocrosses this coming weekend, a short tight course at Midway Stadium and then a rather wide open course at DCTC with Corvettes of Minnesota, so that will definitely give me a good read across the board.

Big thanks to Chris at Modern Automotive Performance for getting me these parts in good time and at a great price!

[A//// Guy]

Looks good! Id say drop it a little bit lower, especially in the front.