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Old 08-03-09 | 09:25 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?
Old 08-03-09 | 10:03 PM
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Are you hitting the bump stop? Play with the suspension movement a bit and see if it has any jams in it. Could it be overextended?
Old 08-03-09 | 10:05 PM
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Old 08-03-09 | 10:07 PM
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Old 08-04-09 | 12:33 AM
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Originally Posted by NCross
Are you hitting the bump stop? Play with the suspension movement a bit and see if it has any jams in it. Could it be overextended?
I think a rubber isolator is stuck in the pass side shock tower. Time to jack it up again...
Old 08-04-09 | 01:49 AM
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the rubber spring seat that is on the axle side is probably what you are sitting on. Happened to me before.
Old 08-04-09 | 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeezus
the rubber spring seat that is on the axle side is probably what you are sitting on. Happened to me before.
Rubber seat for...the spring? When I took my springs out there was nothing under them. Just spring to axle. Is that wrong?
Old 08-04-09 | 09:29 AM
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Are you talking about the front or the rear?
Old 08-05-09 | 02:26 AM
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The rubber isolator for the rear sits on the top of the spring. If it didn't come out with the old springs it is probably stuck to the upper spring perch.
Old 08-05-09 | 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by orion84gsl
The rubber isolator for the rear sits on the top of the spring. If it didn't come out with the old springs it is probably stuck to the upper spring perch.
Thats probably what it is then. I'm ok with it being a little crooked if that's the case
Old 08-05-09 | 10:19 AM
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I've been doing some research on suspension cuz I wanna re do mines, and I've read that RB tends to do that, a lot of people recommend REspeed. But I'm now expert :-/
Old 08-05-09 | 10:36 AM
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respeed won't do that because they are adjustable
Old 08-05-09 | 02:32 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.
Old 08-05-09 | 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by t_g_farrell
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.
I think I will when it gets cooler. It doesn't effect anything really and its way to freakin hot to go in and fix stuff that doesn't *need* to be fixed.
Old 08-05-09 | 03:46 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.
Old 08-05-09 | 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by speedturn
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.
I don't have a spacer?
Old 08-05-09 | 04:46 PM
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Mine did the same thing when I installed RB springs. Respeed fixed it for me.
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