Fortune Auto 510 Coilover Review

[razorlab]

My trick is sticking a screwdriver in the spherical on the hub, making it straight, slowing moving the LCA into position and using the screwdriver again to make any small alignment changes or tweak if I bumped the spherical with the LCA.

I totally forgot about it, then as I was doing suspension on the M240i and was getting frustrated about aligning the LCA it popped back into my brain and had the bolt in within 30 seconds

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[rwense]

My trick is sticking a screwdriver in the spherical on the hub, making it straight, slowing moving the LCA into position and using the screwdriver again to make any small alignment changes or tweak if I bumped the spherical with the LCA.

I totally forgot about it, then as I was doing suspension on the M240i and was getting frustrated about aligning the LCA it popped back into my brain and had the bolt in within 30 seconds

Exactly what I do as well, sometimes a 1/4" extension works too

 

[SupraTR]

Your methods for the LCA sound far too easy. If a mallet and/or screwdriver arent involved to “align” the bolt hole in the LCA, along with a jack that has quickjack blocks stacked on top (ideally they keep falling off too when the bolt hole is mm’s from position so you can get more practice lining things up) because its too short as you loaned out your normal sized jack, only to move and forget to get it back…you're just not trying hard enough.

Here is the car at maximum height in the rear with 305/35s rear. Front is 275/35. The fender front and rear are the same height from the ground. Going to raise front about .2” and rear .5-.75” when spring perch spacers show up (aiming for same gap, but the rear tire is taller so a small rake).

 

[rwense]

Your methods for the LCA sound far too easy. If a mallet and/or screwdriver arent involved to “align” the bolt hole in the LCA, along with a jack that has quickjack blocks stacked on top (ideally they keep falling off too when the bolt hole is mm’s from position so you can get more practice lining things up) because its too short as you loaned out your normal sized jack, only to move and forget to get it back…you're just not trying hard enough.

Here is the car at maximum height in the rear with 305/35s rear. Front is 275/35. The fender front and rear are the same height from the ground. Going to raise front about .2” and rear .5-.75” when spring perch spacers show up (aiming for same gap, but the rear tire is taller so a small rake).

Hahah trust me, you get better at it. My first 2 times I had the typical "lay on your back staring into the abyss wondering why im even doing this" moments

 

[raiu]

Finally got around to installing my Fortune Auto 510 coilovers this weekend as they've been sitting in my garage the past couple months. Initial driving assessment - big fan compared to Stock strut + Eibach Euro lowering springs. Over the years I've always gone lowering springs for my cars and this is my first time going with coilovers so I was concerned about the comfort and my conclusion after install is there was nothing to be worried about there. Handling feels noticeably improved (shocker I know..) and I would say comfort feels neutral to better (except for the large bump bounce noted below). I never loved the ride with the Eibach's.

Now the bad:
- I specced these 8/10k which is lower than most here. This is primarily a street/canyon car so all goals were to maintain comfort and what was recommended from the shop I ordered from. Doing again I'd have gone 9/12 or 10/14 (ordered before the more recent posts saying to go higher). The rear over large bumps has more bounce than I'd prefer, which I believe upping the spring rate would reduce. I may just need to play with the dampeners though currently at 10F/12R so I'll be upping the rear to 18 next time I jack up the car. I think its mainly the rear. Seems like I could just order a 12k or 14k spring to swap out the rear if I can't dial it in.
- I run 305/35s and rubbing over bumps was the main reason I moved to coilovers and I was hoping to raise the car close to a two finger gap. Plenty of adjustment remaining on the front up or down but on the rear I'm at max height and I'd like to be 0.5" - 0.75" higher so it looks like I'll need to buy and install the spring perch @rwense pointed out. Which sucks because that lower control arm bolt is my nemesis (on re-install...maybe 3rd time is the charm). I'm at roughly a one finger gap and 27" ground to fender with these meaty tires and still getting some rear rubbing on compression (but was significantly reduced).

I will try and remember to take an actual pic of the car to post when I'm in the garage later today.

I ordered my rears with swift springs to have 14k. Do you want to buy my swift 12k rears for cheap? 12k was too soft for me lol

And I realized I bought 500s, not 510s (oops)

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