ok the wait is over!................drum roll please..........................
Got the suspension fitted today. All went to plan apart from a few small issues which i`ll pass on to Gary.
Originally my car was lowered approx 3cm at the front & 2.5cm at the rear.
From the top of the arch to the ground:
Front was 65cm.
Rear was 64cm.
These babies really do
LOWER the car ALOT.
I did the rear first and set the shock to 1cm from the lowest setting here`s the outcome....................the measurment was now 57cm, it had lowered 7cm with 1cm to go!
I didn`t buy these to go massively low so i ended up putting them on the
HIGHEST setting which still gave me a 4cm drop! Here`s the overall result, so bare in mind you can still go 4-5cms lower than this............
Just been out for a few miles and the ride is quite good, certainly not harsh, no clunking........giving a surprisingly quiet ride. I put the dampening setting on no.6 out of approx 30 on all four, but this will be increased as the dampers settle in, and i`ll probably put more in the rear.
The handling is very good and best described as firm.
So these will lower a standard car 7-8cm even on the highest setting. A good lowering spring set may do this but you would end up with about 1" rear suspension travel and 1.5" travel at the front. These coilovers dont loose any piston travel when lowered.......so maintain a good ride and handling ie no bottoming out, bump steer, understeer etc. The limiting factor may be the exhaust pipe hitting the rear axle as the gap it goes through is obviously smaller on a lowered car and the camber will be way out if you go really low which will eat your tyres. B14 Tein camber plates would sort this out.
I`ve took more pics of the installation and will do a `how to` when needed.