I'm about to adjust my KW variant coilovers because I need to raise the car a tad but before I did I was wondering if anyone knew a rough formula for doing this?

What I mean is do a certain set amount of turns equal an amount in height?

IE - 3 full turns = 1cm?

Obviously there is but I'm doubting if anyone will know, it'd just make things alot easier if anyone did!

Cheers, Tom

I'm about to adjust my KW variant coilovers because I need to raise the car a tad but before I did I was wondering if anyone knew a rough formula for doing this?

What I mean is do a certain set amount of turns equal an amount in height?

IE - 3 full turns = 1cm?

Obviously there is but I'm doubting if anyone will know, it'd just make things alot easier if anyone did!

Cheers, Tom

Hi Tom mate, I think you will find that 1 full turn equates to around 4mm, well it is on my Weitecs. When I raised mine last time i did 2 full turns, which was enough to stop it rubbing on the rear.

I would say 2 to 3 turns is good.

Mark

When you pop a wheel off just measure the distance between the tops of two adjacent threads, and that'll give you the height change of one revolution.

I've got a nifty little metal rule with a cross bar sort of thing which I use for adjusting mine. One side of the engine bay is heavier than the other (can't remember which one though!), so you'll probably have to raise the struts unequally to keep the arch gaps equal. I you see what I mean!

Don't envy you in this weather. My car is buried under loads of snow!

Thanks Mark and thanks Bodge!

Yeah the fronts are 2 or 3 turns out, puzzled the crap outta me when I first fitted them!

Hopefully I can get it right first time... Famous last words!

The correct way to set coilovers!

Is set the ride height you want or need to stop things rubbing.

The the car should be set with the volume of fuel that you require and who is in the car ie a driver and/or passenger and then corner ballenced with scales and there are different set ups depending on what the car is going to be used for.

Basically this allows the car to push down on the road equally through each of the tyres, for want of a better phase make the car ballenced.

But most installs dont get raced and most will not go to the hassle of doing this and as long as the car sits how you want it to then that should be ok

But it also depends on the spring rates you running!