[s-cars] Eibach Update

[Charlie Smith]

Earlier, mlp qwest wrote:
  [  ...  ]
> Finally if I recall correctly, your results with the "new" Eibach kit
> appears to be exactly the oposite of the early/first round Eibach adopters.
> In the messed up kits, the springs appeared to droped the rear more than the
> front, and the correction was a set of 1cm spacer Eibach offered to put in
> the rear to bring it up @ 1/2" to be more in line the front.

I believe you have this backwards Mike.

If you are talking about the Eibach GP of a year or year and a half ago,
the first production batch shipped was the "European kit" and had the wrong
springs.  Those springs were softer than what we wanted, and the rear spring
was way longer than we needed.  This meant we had to move the rear bottom
spring perch lower on the shock body to get the cars to ride level.

The second production batch with the springs called for, for the "US kit"
had the correct springs.  However, in the meantime (since the Eibach Pro
kits were out of production) Bilstein had changed where they put the
lower spring perch on the shock body. They had the lower spring perch
located 1/2" lower on the shock body than previously.  This was done
by Bilstein so that the Bilstein Sport shocks could be used with the
stock length springs.  So ... when we were trying to use the second new
production batch of Eibach springs (the right ones), a spacer was needed
to get the car to ride level.

Please note I've carefully avoided talking about any "air gap", tire sizes,
"jacked up rear" look, or any of that other nasty stuff  :-)

    - Charlie


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