{"id":2275,"date":"2015-02-08T21:59:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T05:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2015-02-08T21:59:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T05:59:41","slug":"springs-and-shocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"Springs and shocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Springs and shocks arrived recently from ProParts USA<\/a>.\u00a0 When putting together a suspension the actual shocks and springs are just a part of what’s needed.\u00a0 You want to take a look at how they connect at either end, and take advantage of any improvements possible.<\/p>\n

ProParts built a nice set of custom aluminum top hats for the front and rears.\u00a0 Gone are multiple rubber elements, replaced by spherical bearings.\u00a0 The front shock lower mount is also a spherical.<\/p>\n

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One disadvantage of the Koni 30 series is how Bump adjusts.\u00a0 You have to push this button with the shock fully extended, and “click” it through its range.<\/p>\n

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In the rear it’s not too bad actually, as the spring is separate.\u00a0 The front will be trickier with the spring in place.<\/p>\n

So I put things together with some spring lengths based off what I’d seen on the always-right Internet.\u00a0 6″ front and rear.\u00a0 Of course there is huge variation in this stuff, and 6″ ended up being quite a bit short at both ends.<\/p>\n

Here’s how the car looked with the adjusters at max height front,and about the midpoint rear, with 6″ springs:<\/p>\n

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Heh, yeah, a bit too low.\u00a0 At this height the front upper control arm is resting on the chassis, and the exhaust is about 1″ undergound (if the car weren’t up on dollies).<\/p>\n

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The above is one I took while the car was like that.\u00a0 Good news is the bump stop was still about 1\/4″ away from making contact.\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Based on the path the exhaust takes, I think there’s ~1″ of extra ground clearance to gain by tucking the tubing up closer to those bracing pieces.<\/p>\n

The rear spring motion ratio is fairly “soft” on the Z.\u00a0 As best I can measure, the spring is centered a little bit over 10″ out on ~17.5″ long arm.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately the shock mounts all the way out at the knuckle, providing great chassis and wheel control.<\/p>\n

My approach in springing the Z initially is to go a little stiffer in the front, and a little softer in the rear, compared to the fast 350Z’s that are out there – specifically Brian Peters.\u00a0 My thinking is the 370 should be making a bit more power than the 350’s.\u00a0 I want to give the car the best chance it can have of putting it down, especially at a ProSolo.\u00a0 Most of the other fast Z drivers have abandoned the rear swaybar, but I’ll be keeping one (the Hotchkis piece with lots of adjustments) on there for now.<\/p>\n

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A week or so after I realized the 6″ers were too short, Jeff had Hyperco deliver a fresh box of longer coils to get the ride height out of the weeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Springs and shocks arrived recently from ProParts USA.\u00a0 When putting together a suspension the actual shocks and springs are just a part of what’s needed.\u00a0 You want to take a look at how they connect at either end, and take advantage of any improvements possible. ProParts built a nice set of custom aluminum top hats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}