Coilover Users...Height problems? (TEIN FLEX)
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Originally posted by RMMGS4
If you guys are going to take it this far, you might as well have the car aligned and cornerbalanced with you sitting in the car.
As far as measuring your heights, I'm wondering if any of you measured your car's before you did the mod. The chassis may have already been slightly tweeked. Unless this is known, I think the jury is still out on whether the Teins are responsible for introducing this problem.
Also flat surfaces can be deceiving, so you should verify your measurements by taking your car to 3 or 4 different spots and re-measuring. Not that I don't trust your measurements, but you might be surprised at what you may find out if you do this.
After all this, I would measure the thread spacing of all 4 coilovers to make sure the settings are exactly the same, left to right.
Verifying these things will help narrow down what the root cause of the problem is. Right now, we've got too many variables, to make any accurate conclusions.
If you guys are going to take it this far, you might as well have the car aligned and cornerbalanced with you sitting in the car.
As far as measuring your heights, I'm wondering if any of you measured your car's before you did the mod. The chassis may have already been slightly tweeked. Unless this is known, I think the jury is still out on whether the Teins are responsible for introducing this problem.
Also flat surfaces can be deceiving, so you should verify your measurements by taking your car to 3 or 4 different spots and re-measuring. Not that I don't trust your measurements, but you might be surprised at what you may find out if you do this.
After all this, I would measure the thread spacing of all 4 coilovers to make sure the settings are exactly the same, left to right.
Verifying these things will help narrow down what the root cause of the problem is. Right now, we've got too many variables, to make any accurate conclusions.
Setting them all equal would definitely help narrow everything down, but I will worry about that when it is much warmer in MI. In the mean time, I compensated with the shock tube adjustment...
I would definitely measure my car in more than one area to verify an allowable height...(the garage is never...."flat")
Like you said...toooooo many variables
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Originally posted by MikeGS4PE
When you corner balance...you do take in account the driver...normally, they use an approximate weight in the driver seat...No one is blaming Tein/Eibach or whomever...and yes, even Tein said that the chassis may have tweaked after driving 70,000 miles...All I was asking is which way was best to compensate for the difference...the flex system allows for this correction if needed...(yes, the springs should be the same)
When you corner balance...you do take in account the driver...normally, they use an approximate weight in the driver seat...No one is blaming Tein/Eibach or whomever...and yes, even Tein said that the chassis may have tweaked after driving 70,000 miles...All I was asking is which way was best to compensate for the difference...the flex system allows for this correction if needed...(yes, the springs should be the same)
My previous input was focused on trying to confirm what the actual cause of the height difference is. Let's say the chassis is really tweaked, adjusting the Teins would then be "compensating" for the problem, but not actually getting rid of it.
Hopefully that's not your problem. So as you check into all these variables, do the corner balancing, etc. you'll know more.
So I guess we have to wait till summer before we know more?
Last edited by RMMGS4; Feb 1, 2003 at 05:28 PM.
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RMMGS4 - Hehe...finding someone to corner balance the car would be very unlikely...so that really isn't an option...Unfortunately, I already compensated for the difference with the teins, but I will try my best to figure everything out as soon as it gets warmer here in MI. I hope to figure everything out very soon! Need this off my mind. I totally agree...it's not getting rid of it, but hopefully this is a temporary fix 
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