Fitting upgrade shocks. (SteveB)

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:06 pm

I am in the process of buying a set of shocks from SteveB from Seloc.

The kit I am going for is the full bore 100/110 set with new brackets front and rear. Will I need a coil spring conpressor or do the shocks unload fully with the wheels in the air?

Would you expect any problems with sheared bolts on a 32k miles car?

Post by **Shug** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:21 am

Never heard of having to fit the springs onto the dampers on the S2 kit - however I may be wrong. Trying to remember who on the forum has them, so I can point them in the direction of this post.

If the springs are on the dampers when you receive them, there will be plenty of droop to fit. However, try and get the whole car off the deck in a one-ner, as the ARB on the front can make things painful if you're going from 140mm to 100mm and doing it a side at a time (even if you disconnect it, it rests on the wishbone and limits it's travel).

As for bolts, can't see any issues with them - they're sturdy sizes. Obviously, give em a soak in WD40 overnight, to make sure and clean the exposed threads as best you can, but I never have any issues with mine.

I assume you're using it as a predomintely track toy, yeah? 100mm will give you issues with speed bumps and odd driveways...

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:36 am

I will probly do 5-8 track days a year, it will be used a lot on road as well. Its not my only car so it doesnt have to be 100% practical.

Speed bumps, well yes there are some large ones on the entry to the estate but Having spoken to Steve on this I have options to play around with the mounting points/brackets which will take it back to round 120mm all round.

Inserted below some of his words of wisdom---------

If you do need to raise it, the front is no problem, the
>>brackets supplied have two positions and the higher one will give
>>~125mm. The springs can also be compressed to give more height. If
>>your car is post chassis 3580
>>then you will have later rear brackets and with those the highest the S2
>>rears can give is ~120. If you find you want to raise the rear the early
S1
>>brackets will give between 120 and 130 depending on where you set the
>>damper spring platform.

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:00 am

I've got S2 kit on mine. 100mm is too low as it leaves hardly any usable travel. See my thread on S2 kit/handling. Steve has modified rear mounts which i had to modify even further. There is a world of diference if you get the corect brackets/geo and spring settings.

Gordon

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:44 am

gordon wrote:I've got S2 kit on mine. 100mm is too low as it leaves hardly any usable travel. See my thread on S2 kit/handling. Steve has modified rear mounts which i had to modify even further. There is a world of diference if you get the corect brackets/geo and spring settings.

Gordon

Well its ordered now.. This may seem a bit late now, but the shocks are the same on all his kits? its just the springs and brackets he plays with to get the different ride heights..?

Should really ask him.

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:54 pm

will be fitting these tommorow afternoon hopefully. Anyone in Glenrothes area fancy coming round for a butchers...

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:08 pm

Fitted the shocks. No problems.

Also fitted the CRP at the same time. Much better.

Still to get the geo done on thursday at Falkland Perf Cent, which is just along the road from me.