Coilover Assembly/Question

[Neejay]

First, with Tein Basics, what should I do about the seat housing? They came with some, but its expected to be using the OEM strut mount...I have the pillowball mounts, and if I try to use the seat, I have to dump the coilovers all the way down, and then there's no room to adjust:

WITH aftermarket seat:



WITHOUT aftermarket seat



As you can see, without the seat works, but Im not sure its safe not to use the seat. What should I do?

Also, is it true that the OEM SE alloys wont work with these coilovers!?

[BuudWeizErr]

those shock assemblies require you to take the preload off the front assemblies to lower the car.

It's not seperately height adjust and preload adjustable like the Tein HE's. Just lower the bottom spring mount to your likeness.

[Neejay]

those shock assemblies require you to take the preload off the front assemblies to lower the car...

Meaning "no seat"?

[Dori Dori]

Woah, woah, woah...DO NOT mount the coilovers on your car without using the upper spring perch. The spring DOES NOT rest on the strut mount.

[Neejay]

Woah, woah, woah...DO NOT mount the coilovers on your car without using the upper spring perch. The spring DOES NOT rest on the strut mount.

hmm...on my civic I had the sleeve type coilovers, so excuse my ignorance with real coilovers. Ok, so just like I thought...upper spring perch: yes.

I read the tech manual for the coilovers and this was posted:



^When you install them, you're supposed to measure 1.2" and start out like that. Which direction am I supposed to adjust to drop the car then? Do I adjust UP to make it lower? I always thought it was down...its so simple...yet so confusing.

[Dori Dori]

Even with coilover sleeves an upper spring perch is provided.

You go down to make the car lower.

[Neejay]

Even with coilover sleeves an upper spring perch is provided.

You go down to make the car lower.

The thing Im not understanding is how come the spring sits so far down from the top of spindle. And how Im supposed to start 1.2" from the bottom. With the sleeve types, I started from the top of the spindle and the lower you went, the lower it dropped.

With these, you're starting from the bottom at 1.2", which seems to mean that you can only lower it that much. Its quoted "approx. lowering as -1.81"...so I guess that means its lowered that much from the beginning, and "height adjust range being -1.02 -> -2.54"

So does that mean that Im starting lowered at 1.81? And that extra 1.2" left to go down just means I can lower it some more?

Like I said, whats throwing me is how low the spring sits past the spindle in the first place.

[chmercer]

provided you have the upper spring perch installed correctly, thoes coilovers are in their lowest position in the first pic. if you want to raise it, you have to put tension on the spring.

[Dori Dori]

The thing Im not understanding is how come the spring sits so far down from the top of spindle. And how Im supposed to start 1.2" from the bottom. With the sleeve types, I started from the top of the spindle and the lower you went, the lower it dropped.

With these, you're starting from the bottom at 1.2", which seems to mean that you can only lower it that much. Its quoted "approx. lowering as -1.81"...so I guess that means its lowered that much from the beginning, and "height adjust range being -1.02 -> -2.54"

So does that mean that Im starting lowered at 1.81? And that extra 1.2" left to go down just means I can lower it some more?

Like I said, whats throwing me is how low the spring sits past the spindle in the first place.

I never understood why non-rally application coilovers allowed for higher than stock height settings either. It's just how they make them I guess.