s12 coilovers

[s13eater]

i'll probley uprate the rears to coilovers and change to stiffer as well, that bart guy reckons his aint to harsh, but i'am thinking of the weight of the fj, its about 188kg.i've had solid mounts made for the fj and it sits it about 15mm lower with no clearance issues.

[30psi]

Just go careful when throwing the car down a slight bumpy B road. Bart doesn't have them in the US of A.

That spring rate is suitable for race tracks that almost perfectly smooth by the way.

How much heavier is the FJ over the CA. Is it about 40kg?

[JackieFan]

Originally Posted by s13eater

yeah, i'll do an how to mate.it will be in a couple of weeks as i've got to get some pillow ball mounts first.

Cool, thanks mate!

[s13eater]

i think the ca is 118kg mart, i think either northener or wacomuk posted up somewhere, i could be wrong, i usually am lol. ,the mk2 they are going on is being used mostley for track and straight lineing, i think it will be undrivable for the town.

[JackieFan]

Originally Posted by s13eater

i'll probley uprate the rears to coilovers......

How are you going to do this? I've been looking at it and short of making some new towers I'm not sure how to get it done.

I was looking into getting some short (12" for arguments sake) fully adjustable coilovers from GAZ/Spax or tein, something along those lines and mounting them where the standard rear spring sits. Not sure if anyone has tried that yet or if anyone knows if/why it can't be done

[s13eater]

if you go on clubs12, then onto brakes and suspention, do a search for coilovers, it will come up with bart j, he's welded the threaded tube to a plate and fitted it to the rear suframe, where the originals fit, he's used springs like i'am using on the front, the fit in there.

[30psi]

Thats the same as how SE did it

[JackieFan]

Thanks mate

[s13eater]

i ground a spring cup off today and tried to put a tube on, but there's no way it will go on, the tube is about 2 tenths of a mm to big, i was speaking to someone who's mate did his own conversion, he said that he had to heat the threaded tube up in the oven and leave the strut in the freezer overnite, any advise martin ?

[30psi]

Yehj I guess you could try that but getting the strut in the freezer takes the piss.

I would just grind the strut down a bit. Effectively a clean up