Do work, son. Custom rear shock mounts.
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Do work, son. Custom rear shock mounts.
Do work.
Before:
Total length = 7.5"
After:
Total length = 5"
I spent a few hours with my machinist last night and we got work done.
For anyone that is curious, this is how you properly do bags over coilovers when the companies use the spring on top and the bottom mount is too tall to leave the bag at the bottom. By the way, stock OEM/Factory shocks measure 5" to the spring perch.
Before:
Total length = 7.5"
After:
Total length = 5"
I spent a few hours with my machinist last night and we got work done.
For anyone that is curious, this is how you properly do bags over coilovers when the companies use the spring on top and the bottom mount is too tall to leave the bag at the bottom. By the way, stock OEM/Factory shocks measure 5" to the spring perch.
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It's a simple and straight forward set up - Screw the mount back onto the shock and place a collar to lock it in place and place the bag on top of the collar just like most bag over coils.
I know this guy, so he didn't charge me an arm and a leg, but it can get expensive. He spent almost 5 hours total doing this from planning to programming the CNC machine and to do test pieces, then finally the final mounts. These are all completely machined from beginning to end.
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There's much more to it. He had to machine the right threads and diameter so you can screw the mount back onto the tube. Most of it was the math and programming time and the actual machining after he programmed the CNC machine and tested it took only about 6 minutes per side. The top portion was the stock Stance mount; we only machined the bottom of that tube when we cut it shorter.
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But these are not shock bodies. The length of the shocks doesn't matter when the bottom mount is too long and when you put the bag on it, it doesn't clear the frame of the car in the rear.
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And with these on, I got lift back and now I can drag exhausted when aired out.
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Seeing as the bottom mount is a little over 2" of threaded space until the shock hits the actual screwed in mount bushing, they wouldn't be able to offer that because you couldn't adjust the strut any shorter. And Stance says the bottom mount needs to grab hold of at least 1.5" of threads on the shock for safety purposes, so you wouldn't have much room at all to adjust.
Last edited by c4lvin; Oct 24, 2010 at 07:49 PM.
