I want to see what the average time it took to lower the car was. This is taking off your stock set up and pulling off the springs and putting it all back. I bought the car last August and I think put the springs in 9 months ago or so. Thing is I bought them of a 95 nsx already mounted so i just swaped my setup for his as he said they only had 10 k miles on them and my stock car had 40K. It was fairly easy to do.....but now, almost a year later I decided the car had too much "bump" and that it was probably a result of 15 year old shocks. Let me just say OMG what a PITA. What is your guys secret to aligning the top of the shock with the bolt holes and getting the bottom to fit. This took me about 9 hours and even frustrated me enough to take a grinder to the 95 shock to cut the top off for the spring since the bolt was stuck.
So how did you guys do it? So far I found the best way was to pull out the stock set up, then put in the shock with the top on it and test fit it without the spring. Then used painters tape to roughly make a line. Next i put the spring in and only tightened the top a few turns. Then shove it into the car and adjust from there the little that needed be adjusted. That was how i figured out to do it as i only removed the top 3 bolts, the bottom one holding it and the sway bars for the front and back. Anyone else have a better way?
oh and for the rear the gf had to bounce on the disk brake just to get it to go down low enough to pop the unit into place, esp the driver. But it is done and it handles soooooo much nicer and stiffer.
So how did you guys do it? So far I found the best way was to pull out the stock set up, then put in the shock with the top on it and test fit it without the spring. Then used painters tape to roughly make a line. Next i put the spring in and only tightened the top a few turns. Then shove it into the car and adjust from there the little that needed be adjusted. That was how i figured out to do it as i only removed the top 3 bolts, the bottom one holding it and the sway bars for the front and back. Anyone else have a better way?
oh and for the rear the gf had to bounce on the disk brake just to get it to go down low enough to pop the unit into place, esp the driver. But it is done and it handles soooooo much nicer and stiffer.
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