Getting Back On the Ground

Thursday night 9pm. Daniel and I meet at my place for dinner and we made a list of things to get done for the evening.

This was our list
-change out 8 in GC coils for just received earlier in the day 7 inch coils
-complete Injen intake install
-install all corner light bulbs to make sure we don't get pulled over for something simple
-complete install of RSB and adjust to the only setting we can understand FULL STIFF
-bed the rotors and test the brakes

Before we started we wanted to see how much the falken rims we got actually weighted. They weighed in at a slim 9 lbs I couldn't believe it so we weighted it over and over again and it kept coming up to 9 lbs.



Then we quickly banged out the intake install and the corner lights and moved on...

The front coil exchange went quite well, Danial breezed through it. We were complaining coming from a Subaru background that the install didn't seem very intuitive. Either way we started to get in a rhythm and started memorizing all the torque specs for the suspension. Which helped us get though it smoothly.

In the meantime I wrenched at the back and tried to get everything aligned so that we had a good starting point for camber in the rear and that there was nothing binding.

This is what the car looked like in the air at full droop so this is the highest the car would every lift since the strut is at full extension.

Front and rear respectively


Then we put the car on the ground literally. We wanted to know what the lowest setting on the sleeve would give us and it resulted in us barely being able to take my 2.5 inch jack out from the lift point. It also resulted in a ridiculous amount of camber all around.

Everyone together now... R.I.C.E.




"For reference"

RIDE HEIGHT: (center hub to fender)
NOTE: Each full turn of the adjustment ring change ride height by .125 in
In the air:

Front = 14.125 in
Rear = 15.00 in

On the lowest setting on the sleeve
Front = 10.75 in
Rear = 10.25 in

Front = 7 turns up = 11.625
Rear = 11 turns up = 11.75

CAMBER
NOTE: One full rotation (6 facets) on adjustment piece = change of 0.579 degrees in camber, each facet of the piece = 0.0965 change; turn left for increasing negative camber, and right for increasing positive camber



Front = ~ -3.480 degrees (1.125in)
Rear = ~ -3.287 degrees (1.0625in)

And here is the final ride height until I get the tires and rims, which may cause me to change it a bit, but this is where it is as of this morning, we will see later today.