Need help installing coilovers

are you sure those ksports arent for evos? because they might fit and everything but i think evos have lower rear top mounts than lancers, so it wont go very low if you put evo coils in a lancer. i think
 
Jazza2442 said:
are you sure those ksports arent for evos? because they might fit and everything but i think evos have lower rear top mounts than lancers, so it wont go very low if you put evo coils in a lancer. i think
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evo rears different bottom mount
wouldnt bolt up at all

K-sports are known to not go as low on lancers, Dawky (dawson) had a set and yes they dont go low enough
if u want low get some BC's

locking rings are there for a reason.
 
Nah they're for a lancer, as Res said evo's have a different rear mount. I'll take a crack at preloading the spring some more and soften up the dampening to counter act the stiff spring and see how much lower I can go.
 
you could technically remove two of the rings on the rear, just make sure the bottom mount is tight against the ring. the locking rings are only needed if there is still thread exposed for the rings to move along
 
Where's the best place in Brisbane to get coilovers adjusted, as in all the geometry(camber,castor,toe etc) you can do ride height yourself but the rest isn't so simple. Was thinking either pedders or option 1 garage?
 
Any tyre shop that does wheel allignments should be able to do it, just remind them if you have camber adjustable top hats at the front....
 
Went to bob Jane this morning and they wouldn't do it, said its a waste of time for them to be mucking around with all the settings.
 
Bob Jane are useless full stop. Beaurepairs did mine originally, since then Bridgestone and a local place have had no issues doing it.
 
Something like this will come down to the quality and capability of each individual shop. The employees in each store play a huge role in how good a shop is. The answer you were given is very strange, and I would never give them a second thought. But you could go to a Bob Jane two suburbs over that could be brilliant. If you want a suspension tuned, you're probably going to be best off going to a suspension specialist, as what they will deal in 90% of the time, rather than being a tyre and wheel specialist that does suspension maybe 10% of the time.
 
That's true but down here they don't seem to be very good, seems they are the same up there. As for where to go normal furs shop $60ish, suspension place $100 really its upto what you want to pay and how serious you are about the suspension setup. Mind you I didn't think Pedders here seemed very knowledgeable...

Often though tyre places here seem to have a mechanic that normally does the suspension and alignment stuff, not just any old tyre fitter....but first time just go for somewhere cheap, the springs will settle a bit over the first bit of driving and probably need doing in a few months again...
 
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