[s-cars] Eibach Update

[Steve Marinello]

Charlie:

The only problem I still have with all of this is, WHY would the euro
springs be taller and softer in the first place?

I suppose I need to open the box of Eibach's I bought a while ago, also from
shox.com.  Never looked at them after deciding to try the '92 springs on the
sedan.  The avant has the Abt/Eibach springs which are definitely NOT too
tall or soft.

Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Smith" <charlie at elektro.cmhnet.org>
To: <mlped at qwest.net>
Cc: "Audi S Car List" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Eibach Update


> 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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