tigeo
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Richmond, VA area
Coilover question for the suspension gurus out there.
I am trying to deal with this in my head and struggling for some reason. Some coil overs have both an adjustable shock body and adjustable pre-load. Some have adjustable pre-load only.
On the adjustable shock body coil overs, you are lengthening or shortening the overall length of the coil over – coil spring preload and damper travel are unchanged regardless of height adjustment. (right?)
For the coilovers that only have preload adjustment, you are increasing the preload to raise the car and decreasing the preload to lower the car. In this case, you are changing where in the suspension travel the starting point/resting point of the suspension is. (right?)
For the first case, I can see this being an issue for lowering too much b/c it will allow the wheel to move upward too much possibly contacting something it’s not supposed to. In the preload adjustment only case, the lower the car sits the less upward suspension travel you have before bottoming out….so just changing where in the suspension’s travel you sit (overall travel remains constant)....right? aahahaha
I am trying to deal with this in my head and struggling for some reason. Some coil overs have both an adjustable shock body and adjustable pre-load. Some have adjustable pre-load only.
On the adjustable shock body coil overs, you are lengthening or shortening the overall length of the coil over – coil spring preload and damper travel are unchanged regardless of height adjustment. (right?)
For the coilovers that only have preload adjustment, you are increasing the preload to raise the car and decreasing the preload to lower the car. In this case, you are changing where in the suspension travel the starting point/resting point of the suspension is. (right?)
For the first case, I can see this being an issue for lowering too much b/c it will allow the wheel to move upward too much possibly contacting something it’s not supposed to. In the preload adjustment only case, the lower the car sits the less upward suspension travel you have before bottoming out….so just changing where in the suspension’s travel you sit (overall travel remains constant)....right? aahahaha