My wife has a 2dr on evo long arms with their coilovers. As I'm sure you're aware, their rear coilovers are "custom" length for their kit. She's had them for years and it's always had an issue with the rear and I'm finally circling around to it because the local shop that put them on hasn't been helpful and I'm finally in a position to work on this.
So, when she drives through a rut or dip in the road, the rear suspension bottoms out and you get an audible clunk. The issue is that there's only ~2" if shaft showing on the rear coilovers (pictures attached). I originally played with this a bit by adding air bumps and playing with height and pressure, but ... I mean ... you can't really *fix* the problem with only 2" of uptravel as that's just short enough that you CAN bottom it out, or make the bumps stop hard that THEY hit so hard to prevent you from bottoming out the coilover. Either way, it sucks from a ride perspective.
I'm wondering though ... is this the way that kit is designed or is it possible something got messed up (wrong length shocks, wrong lower/upper shock mounts altering the height, etc)? Or, was this really designed with such a low shock travel?
Now, my next thing was going to compress the spring more. 1" adjustment usually equals about 1/2" height right? There's not much more we can go, but maybe I can raise up her rear by 1" and get us to 3-3.5" shock travel. But, it'll add a ton more spring rate/stiffness so that's either good or bad too depending on how it feels.
Any input/guidance appreciated. Thank you!
So, when she drives through a rut or dip in the road, the rear suspension bottoms out and you get an audible clunk. The issue is that there's only ~2" if shaft showing on the rear coilovers (pictures attached). I originally played with this a bit by adding air bumps and playing with height and pressure, but ... I mean ... you can't really *fix* the problem with only 2" of uptravel as that's just short enough that you CAN bottom it out, or make the bumps stop hard that THEY hit so hard to prevent you from bottoming out the coilover. Either way, it sucks from a ride perspective.
I'm wondering though ... is this the way that kit is designed or is it possible something got messed up (wrong length shocks, wrong lower/upper shock mounts altering the height, etc)? Or, was this really designed with such a low shock travel?
Now, my next thing was going to compress the spring more. 1" adjustment usually equals about 1/2" height right? There's not much more we can go, but maybe I can raise up her rear by 1" and get us to 3-3.5" shock travel. But, it'll add a ton more spring rate/stiffness so that's either good or bad too depending on how it feels.
Any input/guidance appreciated. Thank you!
