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Old 2009-06-07, 09:35 AM   #68
sybir
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Originally Posted by WRX06TR View Post
Sweet, I didn't want to clamp those beautiful new springs lol. Now about height adjustment. I am only going to lower the fronts ~1in maybe less, so do I need to be concerned with the height min's and max's in in the instructions for the coils?

And I am just making sure about this but when I turn the nut that adjusts height if I turn it up and tighten the spring thats lowering and if it down (away from the spring) then it would be raising it...correct?

Er, no. Simple physics. Drop the spring perch, and you lower the car. Raise the spring perch, and you raise the car. The spring is a fixed length, you adjust height by moving where the bottom of it sits. With single-adjustable coils like that, I'd set them where the factory states; lowering them too much will eat up all your shock travel; as you lower the spring perch, you're putting the car further and further through its shock travel.
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