Eibach spring settling

[KillNThrill24]

i installed some sportlines the other day (i initially wanted the prokit but found out that the sportlines were lower so decided to try them out) and the rear end right away dropped a drastic amount. we put it down and you cant put a finger in between the top of the well and the tire, which is perfect for me. the front however, has yet to drop. i swear it looks stock height up front. id post a pic but i hav been having bad luck with pic posting recently lol.

i just need to know if eventually it will come down where it belongs. i know theres a "settling" period but i just thought it was odd that the rear is on the ground and the front is sky high lol. i did remove the iso's (i believe thats what theyre called? the rubber rings on the tops of the springs) to set it down even lower. it just looks plain goofy right now. if it doesnt drop then end of the season theyre coming back off and im cuttin a coil or two, im just hoping it doesnt come to that

 

[Musturd]

Did you clock the springs properly in the cups ? If not that could make it sit close to stock .

 

[KillNThrill24]

i put them in the same way i pulled the others out so im assuming its correct lol. everything looked seated properly tho. i might hav to jack it up and take the wheels off and check to make sure nothing turned while i was putting the strut back in the tower and bringing the control arm back up

 

[OnyxCobra]

do the pig tails on both the rear springs point towards the drivers side? Also when you check the front springs the bottom end of the coil is supposed to cover up the first hole in the control arm but not the second.

 

[Nightmare]

Provided you did everything correct, it should settle over time, unless you mixed up the springs. See my into thread for a pic of my car. That was about a month after I did the same springs on mine (with the isolators). That is how is should look.

 

[KillNThrill24]

Onyx not gonna lie to you we did it at about 2 in the morning so im not 100% sure everything is where it should be, and i couldnt remember for the life of me where anything is positioned. my dude put the rears in while i worked on reattatching the strut and shock absorber(?) on the rear right behind him. he said that theres a specific way they go in and he knows where to put them. the rear looks fine tho.

Nightmare thanks for the example sic lookin ride btw. my passenger side looks almost identical to that just a tad bit lower since i dont hav isos. the driver side im waiting for it to come down a lil. im hopin i didnt mess it up lol ill find out soon enough tho.

 

[Nightmare]

Onyx not gonna lie to you we did it at about 2 in the morning so im not 100% sure everything is where it should be, and i couldnt remember for the life of me where anything is positioned. my dude put the rears in while i worked on reattatching the strut and shock absorber(?) on the rear right behind him. he said that theres a specific way they go in and he knows where to put them. the rear looks fine tho.

Nightmare thanks for the example sic lookin ride btw. my passenger side looks almost identical to that just a tad bit lower since i dont hav isos. the driver side im waiting for it to come down a lil. im hopin i didnt mess it up lol ill find out soon enough tho.

Thanks for the compliment. Honestly, at first there were times that it looked like the one side of my car is higher than the other side due to the road surface.....Best thing I can tell you is to park it on a completely flat surface, make sure the wheels are straight forward and then measure if you think that.

 

[OnyxCobra]

It's all good I was just giving some things to double check if you want to. It's pretty much impossible to mix up the springs and if you somehow did your front would be slammed and the rear would be sky high lol.

 

[Nightmare]

It's all good I was just giving some things to double check if you want to. It's pretty much impossible to mix up the springs and if you somehow did your front would be slammed and the rear would be sky high lol.

That would make a really awesome old school drag set up lol!

 

[KillNThrill24]

Onyx i went ahead today and checked the locations of the springs and they infact did not move when i put them in. so im just hoping the driver comes down a little more. i think that the passenger is all the way down and the rear driver. its starting to look so sweet. its just that driver side front lol. if it doesnt come down i may end up chopping it. tho i hope i dont have to since the passenger dropped. but yeah i knew right away i got the front/rear at least done right haha i dont think they would even fit the wrong way lol

Nightmare good call, every time i park it looks different. its hard to find flat, level ground around here lol but if yours looked a little high at first, then i think that my springs are acting normal. but yeah i guess if i was using my stang as a drag car i could try that haha

thanks alot guys

 

[Nightmare]

It took about a week for it to look "right". Don't cut the spring, because when it does settle, it will look like you are in 3 wheel motion.

 

[KillNThrill24]

so after a few weeks.... the fronts still have not gone down. or if they did its not nearly enough. im cutting them i cant believe they havent come down after all the driving iv done on it

 

[KillNThrill24]

i dont want to start a new thread on the subject so thats why im reliving a few weeks old thread lol...

what are the "pivot points" on the front suspension??? it may sound stupid but i cant think of all of them. i know for a fact my friend tightened everything with the car in the air and im thinking thats the reason my springs are jacked up (literally). so im gonna loosen it and do it on the ground like it shoud be so what are the points?

 

[Nightmare]

i dont want to start a new thread on the subject so thats why im reliving a few weeks old thread lol...

what are the "pivot points" on the front suspension??? it may sound stupid but i cant think of all of them. i know for a fact my friend tightened everything with the car in the air and im thinking thats the reason my springs are jacked up (literally). so im gonna loosen it and do it on the ground like it shoud be so what are the points?

I did mine on jack stands. Do you have extra weight in the back?

 

[KillNThrill24]

no sir trunk and whole interior is empty except for what should be in it (spare tire, seats, that kinda stuff) i just dont get it. 2 or 3 weeks later and they have yet to come down. im thinking of loosening the strut and retightening it for now.. then tomorrow maybe tearing it back apart, again, and checking everything, again

 

[Nightmare]

There has to be a problem with the install, either with the strut, strut mount or the spring seat. Don't cut the springs though. It will ride like garbage. I passed on a 25000 mile procharged 99 cobra because of how it rode because of the guy cutting the coil. YOu will be changing the spring rate once you cut it.

 

[JoshHooten]

I had the same prob with my ford c springs. I put them in and it never really droped it. Even after a year it was about the same. I wanted to go lower so I decided to get some caster/camber plates and cut the c springs. When I took them out I clocked them wrong when i put them in so it sat higher that it was suppose to.
I cut 3/4 a coil off of the front springs and they have the stock isos. the rear has the dead coil+ 1/4 coil without isos. The car rides perfect even with the springs cut after a yr it rides just like it did when I put the springs in new.

 

[JoshHooten]

This is with the springs settled after a year , When they were clocked wrong.[I had already fixed the rear, that is why it is sitting like that] and yes those are lowereing springs on the car not stock springs.

This is now, with the springs installed right and cut.

 

[KillNThrill24]

i think you may have just solved my problem.... that first pic is EXACTLY how mine look right now. and now that i think about it they have to be installed wrong. the just have to. ill see if i can turn them a little without removing them and see what happens. problem is my buddy installed them not i. he put the spring in while i installed the other parts on the other side (make any sense) we were going to fast and i bet installed them wrong. if i had to guess.... the end of the coil should be on the outside of the a-arm? (closer to the tire not the engine)

 

[Nightmare]

If you can wait till Saturday I can tell you for sure as I did mine in may and won't be able to look at till Friday. You won't be able to turn them with anything bolted. Once they are seated right you shouldn't be able to turn them when clocked. However the "perch" in the control arm should have a low spot for the end of the spring to rest. He could have them upsidedown for all We know.