Trying to adjust coilover height, do I need a 100% level/even garage/floor ?
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I have a hard time believing this is an issue, even with a stout bar. The additional load one might get from preload will be very small when compared to cornering forces, unless one intentionally chooses link lengths that are way different from one another.
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Stout? You mean stock? The issue behind this is when you add preload on a bar at stock height sitting still, you're imposing more stress on the links when the car rolls contrast to if they had no preload on them initially. If you read into the problems people have had on here snapping their end links it was because they lowered their car using stock bars and end links and it added preload to them.
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One of the reasons you buy adjustable links is to keep the links perpendicular to the bar. The effective spring rate of the bar changes with the angular relationship between the bar & the link. If you want to get all the roll stiffness out of the bars you bought, you want the links perpendicular to the bar.
Although I suppose you could argue that again, on the street, it's not a bif deal if your bars are 5% or even 10% softer than what they ultimately could be.
Although I suppose you could argue that again, on the street, it's not a bif deal if your bars are 5% or even 10% softer than what they ultimately could be.
No pre-load is way more important of an adjustment than angle of the endlink to sway bar.
-billy
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