Smoother Highway Ride for Coilover Conversion

[Mad_Monte_Carlo]

If the president of Ridetech is telling me the adjustments don't really work due to the high spring rate, it would lead me to believe it would be time to try a lighter spring rate.

[dhutton]

Originally Posted by Mad_Monte_Carlo

If the president of Ridetech is telling me the adjustments don't really work due to the high spring rate, it would lead me to believe it would be time to try a lighter spring rate.

Bit of a misunderstanding. There is no compression damping adjustment because they are monotube shocks and high spring rates aren’t affected by adjustable compression damping is what I was told.

Don

[dhutton]

Originally Posted by randy

I didn’t realize the ride quality difference in my ridetech coilovers till I switched my rears to jri and had Jj valve them at ultimate performance. I wish I would have went with the jri from the beginning

This is interesting. My Art Morrison subframe and IRS also had JRI coilovers.

Don

[randy]

Originally Posted by NOVA

This is Interesting ..... glad it made a noticeable difference in your case, how did it change, do you feel it took the harshness out of the ride or ?

Yes. When hitting a bump it was just smoother instead of instant Jolt. I also felt my rear suspension gripped better on the autocross track as well coming around a turn. Now understand my car is very low and for a simple coilover change I felt a huge difference. I prob have 5-8k miles on my new setup.

[NOVA]

Originally Posted by randy

Yes. When hitting a bump it was just smoother instead of instant Jolt. I also felt my rear suspension gripped better on the autocross track as well coming around a turn. Now understand my car is very low and for a simple coilover change I felt a huge difference. I prob have 5-8k miles on my new setup.

it is encouraging to know the JRI change and/or the re valving made a large difference for the rear, encouraging to hear smoother.

Question, did you do anything with the fronts as far as changing or re valving or are they still the original Ridetech that came with the coilover kit ?