I'm slowing getting my setup finished. See this thread (amongst others) for info:
Koni Discussion After reading Steve's info, Wes' picture heavy response, etc; here is where I stand.
This setup will use Maxima front housing (w/ Maxima Red inserts) and B13 front housings (w/ B14 Front Red inserts). Here are the housings after using Taiden's example, and removing the stock spring mount (before and after grinding the tabs down):
Max Front
Rear
After I had the outside smooth, I bead-blasted the housings and had another forum member weld collars to hold the threaded sleeve. After that was complete, another buddy (a diff't forum member) powder-coated the housings for me in wrinkle black (bad pic):
The threaded sleeve doesn't fit over the top of the Maxima insert, but I used a bench grinder to turn that top down just a small amount. This allowed me to deal with the insert and housing apart from the sleeve.
To get the inserts into the housings, I had to sand some paint off of the inserts a little as it was a very tight fit. I also used JB Weld at the bottom, and the top of the inserts for safety.
I followed Steve's directions and used a 5mm headset spacer for the front inserts after cutting the bolt and "nub" on the bottom of the insert. The front insert is on the bottom, and the bolt can be seen. The rear setup did not require a spacer as the "nub" fit tight to the very bottom of the housing to reach the required measurements.
Here are the assemblies together for a test fit. The threaded sleeve fits around 3/4" below the top of the Koni insert for all 4. Maxima insert with Cusco camber plate on top, and B14 insert with pillow ball mount on the bottom:
I will be running 380 ft/lb front springs and 350 ft/lb rear springs for right now.
I need to order some bumpstops and some new thrust bearings for the front, and then the setup should be ready to install. Bumpstops will probably be Energy Suspension or OEM as the springs should coil bind before the strut bottoms out - in theory the bumpstops should never get used (if I understand the theory correctly)
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The front setup is 1.5" lower than stock - meaning I can lower the car 1.5" without losing any suspension travel, and the rear is 1" lower than stock....well, assembled measurements are within 1/8" of design (not bad).
Here are some stock measurements for reference (link to big version
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If anyone wants to recreate this setup, I can give you some better sheets with more measurements. This setup (per Steve) is better if you plan to run 400 ft/lb springs or more - I may upgrade to 400 fronts in the future, so that is why I gave up the external adjustment of the Spec V inserts.
Thoughts?
Josh
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