Tein SS coilover question and advice needed

pcmx5 · Postby **pcmx5** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:06 pm

I dealt with Graham and he was great. Ended up referring me to a Melb. agent(GT Suspension) for supply and fitting.

Mania didn't have them at the time but it is always nice to get supply/fit from the one place as there can be no duckshoving if anything does go wrong!

Cost about $400 for fitting and alignment from memory.$2160 all up

Peter.

BlackMX · Postby **BlackMX** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:27 am

Thanks for everyones replies.
THere's nothing like collective wisdom and experience to learn quickly!(Hail the forum!)
Now this may seem silly but I need some clarification, the instructions say the damper is set at full hard from the factory and that tthe initial"standard " setting should be 12 clicks (anticlockwise) from full hard.It then states that only level 1-16 should be used to avoid damage to the damper.
So does this mean level 1 is full hard?(which seems counter-intuitive).
Just how many clicks are there anyway?
What settings are people running out there?
It's still early days but my impressions thus far are favourable.
At present I've left it at the recommended setting but would like to adjust them to suit.

pcmx5 · Postby **pcmx5** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:55 am

BlackMX wrote:Thanks for everyones replies.
Now this may seem silly but I need some clarification, the instructions say the damper is set at full hard from the factory and that tthe initial"standard " setting should be 12 clicks (anticlockwise) from full hard.It then states that only level 1-16 should be used to avoid damage to the damper.
So does this mean level 1 is full hard?(which seems counter-intuitive).
Just how many clicks are there anyway?
What settings are people running out there?
It's still early days but my impressions thus far are favourable.
At present I've left it at the recommended setting but would like to adjust them to suit.

They also say do not go past 16,ie. fully soft, so apparently there must not be a "stop" point on the adjustment, otherwise they would not need to tell you that.

I have tried a few settings and am currently running 10 off hard front, 12 at the rear and am quite happy at that.

I must say that there doesn't appear to be a huge difference between a few clicks, you seem to have to go with a big adjustment to notice the difference.

I drove home from Melb on the freeway with them on full hard and couldn't believe the handling at the first on ramp I came to and the ride on the freeway was excellent.

A few secondary roads soon had me looking for a softer ride.

Please share your experiences re settings as you experiment!

Peter.

Babalouie · Postby **Babalouie** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:32 am

pcmx5 wrote:Please share your experiences re settings as you experiment!

Peter.

I've got the EDFC electric in-cabin thingy so I play with the settings all the time.

For track (Wakefield anyway) I find that 2F/5R was a good balance. I know that on the road a couple of clicks doesn't seem like much but on the track one click does seem to be quite noticeable. This is also my fast-road setting. For street I either use 8F/8R or I go 16F/16R (full soft) if it's bumpy.

The track/fast-road setting seems to be quite washy on the turn in unless you are really up it and come into the corner hard on the brakes. I've had it on the hard-setting a few times and when you just cruise into a tight corner at a reasonable pace it does have a surprising understeer.

I know that the 2F/5R setting is too stiff for the Putty Rd, which is very fast and bumpy, so for roads like that I go back down to 8/8.

DCMau · Postby **DCMau** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:59 pm

I have ended up using 12F/9R for daily use. I haven't had enough (read none Ted) track time to play with any other settings.

At this point I have decided not to go for the EDFC. I just can't seem to justify spending the money for the amount of use it would get. Still it would be a nice toy to have though

Ted · Postby **Ted** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:09 pm

They certainly do settle down a bit after a thousand kms or so, but I haven't measured the heights again on mine.

DCMau - OK I hear ya, we'll go out for a play one day.

Abyss · Postby **Abyss** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:59 pm

What is the EDFC worth?

Babalouie · Postby **Babalouie** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:35 pm

Abyss wrote:What is the EDFC worth?

I think it was $400 extra...this was in Japan tho. Not sure what they'd retail for locally.

DCMau · Postby **DCMau** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:56 pm

Abyss wrote:What is the EDFC worth?

I understood that Fulcrum were looking at selling them for about $700 but that was when they were testing the car setup. I haven't checked since then.