A question to all Megan coilover owners

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xagna
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I have megan coilovers and they are cool.

But the rear coilovers are low. My rear tires are within one ince from fenders when viewed from sideways.I would like to raise the two rear coilovers. But the bottom of the strut body is already 50% out of the bottom housing. And I unloaded the spring's preload. How can I raise the coilover more in this situation?


chmercer
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leave it. thats high already.

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I thought adding more preload will raise the car. Not that you want to raise the car that way. Is an inch of clearance not enough? are your tires rubbing the fenders?

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Red coupe
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I think he might just want it to maintain closer to stock look/suspesion geomitry...I have mine about were he is talking about and it still took some of my suspension arms from a 0-1 degree angle to a 1- degree angle...pre-load is pre loading the spring by means of compressing it this makes the spring shorter and lowers the car...

xagna
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Not the stock look but the geometry. I would like to keep the lower control arms to tilt upward. This seems to yield better grip as whole geometry gets closer to the CG of the vehicle.

The tires used to rub the fenders. Now they are 1/2 inch away from fender. Need more clearance.

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stock they dont even tilt upwards...you sure you wanna lift it higher then stock?I would just aim from parrellel to get the most wheel travel in either direction with the least changes.... Same as the nissan guys did...

xagna
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Not high like stock. But as you said, I would like the lower control arms to be parallel, at least, to the ground. Even at this height they are tilting downward about 3 degrees.

Is there any web document or tutorial about coilover adjoustments for any coilovers.


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