K11 coilovers
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Enuo
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Made to fit are rare and very expensive, and ideally need strengthening done to rear shock mounts. Search for 'Official MSC K11 lowering guide', will give you some cheaper options.
Enuo
Glorified Electrician
You can JUST get away with no strengthening on the rear for rear coiloverd, assuming no corrosion whatsoever around the shock mount points. I'd recomend keeping the seperate shocks and springs and doi g corsa shocks and cut springs, but bristol roads are pretty brutal as Scott.C will confirm!. You'll needy an adjustable panhard rod whatever you do.
pollyp
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I use BC coilovers on my daily k11 turbo no problem. turned fully soft for comfy controlled ride and hard for the track
yeah that's what proper coilovers do, the cheap ones are fixed dampening with adjustable hight
pollyp
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not necessarily.
depends on how well it's setup to suit that vehicles mass, within the occupants acceptable ride comfort for a specific driving application.
these coilovers have alot of parameters to set and other optional spring rates to suit a need compared to other fixed solutions, just have to configure em correctly.
Very true, but 9 times out of 10 people never really bother, which is a shame after all the development that goes into making them...
Suzie the Super S
pollyp
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the ride comfort experienced by the occupants under various conditions and the visual desire of low wheel/arch gap is affected by many parameters including spring rates, various fast/slow damper bump/rebound, bump/droop travel, bump stops, ride height, terrain, etc etc which is all very complicated science in itself
brief answer, you can alter many things of the coilover to get closer to the requirements but suspension setup is always a compromise
h701micra
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What coilovers do you have?
I haven't seen sub £600 micra ones
h701micra
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Ah I see... well that's the same info either way thanks
pollyp
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exactly.
the full body coilovers are designed to provide users full control over various major suspension parameters to "fine tune/balance" it with the car and get closer to their target goal.
just like with any tool, they can be detrimental or even dangerous if the person doesn't know how to setup and utilise its full potential properly.
Kamarley
If it aint Jap its Crap!
That's me out the picture then boys don't have the first inclin about coilovers
h701micra
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By all means get coilovers. Just stick to the 'default settings' as it were and use them to simply lower/raise the carThat's me out the picture then boys don't have the first inclin about coilovers
h701micra
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Depending what set you get they can have:
Damping rates (both bump and rebound)
Spring rates
Camber adjustment
Caster adjustment
Static chassis height
These can affect many things
Like centre of gravity balance, corner weighting, acceleration 'buck' and braking 'dive', body roll, weight transfer etcetc can go on hence why Paul said they can be dangerous if you dont know what your doing
Damping rates (both bump and rebound)
Spring rates
Camber adjustment
Caster adjustment
Static chassis height
These can affect many things
Like centre of gravity balance, corner weighting, acceleration 'buck' and braking 'dive', body roll, weight transfer etcetc can go on
hence why Paul said they can be dangerous if you dont know what your doingDepending what set you get they can have:
Damping rates (both bump and rebound)
Spring rates
Camber adjustment
Caster adjustment
Static chassis height
These can affect many things
Like centre of gravity balance, corner weighting, acceleration 'buck' and braking 'dive', body roll, weight transfer etcetc can go on
That's why cheap ones if you go mega low, the damping goes out the window because of how compressed the spring is when you lower it...
Suzie the Super S
h701micra
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The damping should be ok as they are designed to go that low
that's all in the shock design.People remove the helper springs to go lower which leaves the main spring to do all the work. Over-compressing the main spring. In turn making it excessively stiff and skittish. I think that's what you mean?
Them bristol roads very brutal!!
The damping should be ok as they are designed to go that low
People remove the helper springs to go lower which leaves the main spring to do all the work. Over-compressing the main spring. In turn making it excessively stiff and skittish. I think that's what you mean?
Yeah that is what I mean lol
Suzie the Super S
