Sitting crooked after new springs/shocks?
08-03-09 | 10:25 PM
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Sitting crooked after new springs/shocks?
I just put new springs and shocks (racing beat and tokiko respectively) on my SE (just the rear at the moment) and for some reason the passenger side didn't really drop. It still looks to be about the same ride height as it was but the driver side looked like it dropped the 1'' it was supposed to. The only thing I can think of is maybe one of the shock isolators got stuck against the shock tower? Would that do it or would it just compress the shock more? 
08-04-09 | 01:33 AM
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08-05-09 | 03:32 PM
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It could also be that you need to loosen the watts linkage nuts
some and put the cars weight on the rear end level with the
front and retighten. I hear that thats a large reason lowered
springs make the car sit uneven. Mine does it ( RB springs),
but I've never bothered to fix it yet.
some and put the cars weight on the rear end level with the
front and retighten. I hear that thats a large reason lowered
springs make the car sit uneven. Mine does it ( RB springs),
but I've never bothered to fix it yet.
08-05-09 | 04:12 PM
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It could also be that you need to loosen the watts linkage nuts
some and put the cars weight on the rear end level with the
front and retighten. I hear that thats a large reason lowered
springs make the car sit uneven. Mine does it ( RB springs),
but I've never bothered to fix it yet.
some and put the cars weight on the rear end level with the
front and retighten. I hear that thats a large reason lowered
springs make the car sit uneven. Mine does it ( RB springs),
but I've never bothered to fix it yet.
08-05-09 | 04:46 PM
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You just messed up the cross weight of your chassis. If you care about making your car handle better, you need to get it right.
Most RX-7 racers that fine tune their chassis cross weight end up using spacers to raise up the left rear, not the right rear. Most road racers use a coil over type spring setup on the front, and they will be adjusted to make the Right Front sit a little higher, and they will add a spacer or two to get more lift on the Left too. This is because the RX-7 chassis is naturally heavy on the left front corner, and also the right rear corner carries a little more weight than the left rear corner. By tweaking the right front and left rear, they can get the weights that each tire carries to balance out better. A car will handle better if the tires are carrying equal loads than a car that has one tire carrying too much load. Your additional spacer on the right rear tire makes the standard RX7 heavy LF/RR situation even worse than standard.
Most RX-7 racers that fine tune their chassis cross weight end up using spacers to raise up the left rear, not the right rear. Most road racers use a coil over type spring setup on the front, and they will be adjusted to make the Right Front sit a little higher, and they will add a spacer or two to get more lift on the Left too. This is because the RX-7 chassis is naturally heavy on the left front corner, and also the right rear corner carries a little more weight than the left rear corner. By tweaking the right front and left rear, they can get the weights that each tire carries to balance out better. A car will handle better if the tires are carrying equal loads than a car that has one tire carrying too much load. Your additional spacer on the right rear tire makes the standard RX7 heavy LF/RR situation even worse than standard.
08-05-09 | 04:52 PM
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You just messed up the cross weight of your chassis. If you care about making your car handle better, you need to get it right.
Most RX-7 racers that fine tune their chassis cross weight end up using spacers to raise up the left rear, not the right rear. Most road racers use a coil over type spring setup on the front, and they will be adjusted to make the Right Front sit a little higher, and they will add a spacer or two to get more lift on the Left too. This is because the RX-7 chassis is naturally heavy on the left front corner, and also the right rear corner carries a little more weight than the left rear corner. By tweaking the right front and left rear, they can get the weights that each tire carries to balance out better. A car will handle better if the tires are carrying equal loads than a car that has one tire carrying too much load. Your additional spacer on the right rear tire makes the standard RX7 heavy LF/RR situation even worse than standard.
Most RX-7 racers that fine tune their chassis cross weight end up using spacers to raise up the left rear, not the right rear. Most road racers use a coil over type spring setup on the front, and they will be adjusted to make the Right Front sit a little higher, and they will add a spacer or two to get more lift on the Left too. This is because the RX-7 chassis is naturally heavy on the left front corner, and also the right rear corner carries a little more weight than the left rear corner. By tweaking the right front and left rear, they can get the weights that each tire carries to balance out better. A car will handle better if the tires are carrying equal loads than a car that has one tire carrying too much load. Your additional spacer on the right rear tire makes the standard RX7 heavy LF/RR situation even worse than standard.
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