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Old Feb 3, 2007 | 02:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Kolia
A car should be dropped by moving the spring perch, not with a shorter spring.
What is a spring perch? I don't understand this statement and it seems important! Please explain a little...thanks.
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Old Feb 3, 2007 | 05:48 AM
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Originally Posted by streetracer
What is a spring perch? I don't understand this statement and it seems important! Please explain a little...thanks.
It's the spring mount if you will. On your front suspension, the spring is a coilover type. The spring rests on a disc around the damper. That is the spring perch.

And it's this mount location that should be moved up or down to adjust the ride height.
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Old Feb 3, 2007 | 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Kolia
It's the spring mount if you will. On your front suspension, the spring is a coilover type. The spring rests on a disc around the damper. That is the spring perch.

And it's this mount location that should be moved up or down to adjust the ride height.
Even moving that up or down will still effect camber. Spindles (mostly for trucks) are the only thing I've ever seen that didn't change camber or ride comfort.
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Old Feb 3, 2007 | 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by VQLOVER
Even moving that up or down will still effect camber. Spindles (mostly for trucks) are the only thing I've ever seen that didn't change camber or ride comfort.
Of course. You're still lowering the car so camber will change.
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Old Feb 28, 2007 | 05:20 PM
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hey vqlover...can you post up some pics of your z? like a side shot during the day? most of the pics ive seen on this forum of 06s on hotchkis springs for some reason always take an angled picture of the before pic in bright lighting...then take the after pic where the wells are coincidently in the shade -_-

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Old Feb 28, 2007 | 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by creationv2
hey vqlover...can you post up some pics of your z? like a side shot during the day? most of the pics ive seen on this forum of 06s on hotchkis springs for some reason always take an angled picture of the before pic in bright lighting...then take the after pic where the wells are coincidently in the shade -_-

thanks!
Don't have any pics this second. Long story short...fried my other laptop and just got a new one so all of my files are gone. I'm gona clean her up this weekend and I'll post some new pics up.
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Old Mar 1, 2007 | 01:40 PM
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^^^awesome! i shall waits -- sorry to hear about your laptop...the whole laptop fried? or just the mobo or what? cuz if the hdd still works you can alwasy pull it out and get an external for it...
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