Your setup looks similar to mine, I rub over large bumps as well.
20x9.5 front w/275 30 +22
So your specs are the same as mine, except im on coilovers.
So just went for a little longer ride..
Would like to see more info on this technique and also damn those wheels are fire what’s the specs?I lowered the rear of the car last night. I had a mechanic in the area explain to me how to use a come-along and some ratchet straps on the control arms to relieve the tension on the springs.
All you do is:
Props to my wife for getting those bolts back into the shocks.
- remove the lower mounting bolt of your shocks.
- wrap your ratchet straps at the end of each control arm and connect to the come-along.
- place a block on the differential cooler to keep the come-along at a "V" to have leverage to pull the control arms down.
- One you relieve the tension on the spring you can adjust the nut by hand. (Make sure to loosen the locking bolt if you coilover have one on the nut.)
- Remove all your straps.
- If have two people, one can lift up on the suspension assembly by the rotors while the other slides the bolt back in the shock mount. The smart thing would be to use a jack or a underhoist to do this... but I didn't have that shit.
With this method you do not have to have a spanner wrench AND you don't lose your alignment doing it this way. You just adjust the nut by hand.
I'm new to this game, so I am super grateful that he showed this to me. From what I understand this isn't common knowledge. I had two different specialist shops in the area complain about having to remove everything to use the spanner wrench to adjust the rear coilovers.
Hopefully this helps someone out. I'll try to make a video this weekend to demonstrate. I should have done it last night. Oh well.
Anyways. I only lowered the rear by about 5mm. Any lower and it would start scraping when going over huge humps or dips on the road. It helped reduce the rake and I can no longer squeeze my knuckles through the gap. Wheel fitment is now absolutely complete in my books... until I get a second set of wheels ?.
I'll take a video of how to do it this weekend.
That’s gotta be one of the cleanest cuts I’ve seen. Do tell us how you’re able to get it so clean. ?Cut up my engine cover to accommodate the EOSpeed manifold/archer Fab charge pipe. Probably needs to be cut more for the top mount turbo kit, but it’s progress. Next task is to find paint for the red strip to match the color scheme I’m going for under the hood.
Setup looks awesome! Are you on 315 or 305 rear tires?
Thank you...
Pull them out. There’s a tool or you can just give em a good tug.
Could you describe how they feel different?Got an alignment today after swapping out my H&R springs for HKS Hipermax Touring a while back. It feels so much better now. Sorry for the garbage resolution, that's all I got...
