I am doing this because I don’t like to see people ripped off and unhappy with poor ride quality.
This covers the following coilovers: gmax, jamex, hottuning, V-MAXX.
They are ALL the same kit but one company appears to use different shocks (black instead of yellow). I’ve no personal experience of the shocks but from reports they are very soft!
The springs the adjusters are all the same BUT most times they claim to lower the car 110mm, this is not possible! Max lowing is about 70-80mm, lowing this about will leave you in tears with a UN driveable car.
I have driven many slammed cars and trust me this is worst than unsafe, the way the kit is designed it looses you approx 35cm of suspension travel and leaves you with a metal to metal contact and with only 15mm of travel left this is seriously dangerous.
This kit you get:
My old 106 fully lowered:
Now i’ve told you how bad it is, this is how to make something good of a bad thing!
1stly by the cheapest kit you can find, and sell the shocks on eBay. I paid £150 for my set and sold shocks for 120!
This will leave you with the coilover parts you need.
when your using different shocks(I used spax non adjustable), you will find they don’t fit correctly into the threaded tube, you will need to take the shock and tube to a machine shop and get them to remove about 2mm of material from the inside end face. This should cost no more than 20quid; it’s a 5 min job!
This diagram should help:
Now your shocks fit you need to buy the key upgrade to the kit:
106 Grp N Top Spring Pan
http://www.specialtuninguk.co.uk/aca...pring_Pan.html
This will bring back your full suspension travel and allow you to lower further.
When you get the top spring pan you will find it’s designed for a 3" spring and the coilover kit uses a 2.5" spring. But it’s only the top and bottom coils on the spring which is of this size, once you have cut the top coil off the spring the 3" top spring pan fits perfectly.
Some people are against cutting springs but this in no way weakens the spring and will overall make the car so much safer imo! The spring will be looser but not completely slack when the wheels are off the ground.
if you do the same as me but having 50mm machined off the length of the shocks you will never have any trouble at all.( if you do this never compress the shocks off the car).
Once finished the car is not lower and so much more driveable, only serious knocks come from large bumps that any lowered car would knock over.
Finished item:
my latest kit on my vts:
ive not had time to read this through fully so please let me know of any mistakes and i hope people interested make full use of it. thanks pete
This covers the following coilovers: gmax, jamex, hottuning, V-MAXX.
They are ALL the same kit but one company appears to use different shocks (black instead of yellow). I’ve no personal experience of the shocks but from reports they are very soft!
The springs the adjusters are all the same BUT most times they claim to lower the car 110mm, this is not possible! Max lowing is about 70-80mm, lowing this about will leave you in tears with a UN driveable car.
I have driven many slammed cars and trust me this is worst than unsafe, the way the kit is designed it looses you approx 35cm of suspension travel and leaves you with a metal to metal contact and with only 15mm of travel left this is seriously dangerous.
This kit you get:
My old 106 fully lowered:
Now i’ve told you how bad it is, this is how to make something good of a bad thing!
1stly by the cheapest kit you can find, and sell the shocks on eBay. I paid £150 for my set and sold shocks for 120!
This will leave you with the coilover parts you need.
when your using different shocks(I used spax non adjustable), you will find they don’t fit correctly into the threaded tube, you will need to take the shock and tube to a machine shop and get them to remove about 2mm of material from the inside end face. This should cost no more than 20quid; it’s a 5 min job!
This diagram should help:
Now your shocks fit you need to buy the key upgrade to the kit:
106 Grp N Top Spring Pan
http://www.specialtuninguk.co.uk/aca...pring_Pan.html
This will bring back your full suspension travel and allow you to lower further.
When you get the top spring pan you will find it’s designed for a 3" spring and the coilover kit uses a 2.5" spring. But it’s only the top and bottom coils on the spring which is of this size, once you have cut the top coil off the spring the 3" top spring pan fits perfectly.
Some people are against cutting springs but this in no way weakens the spring and will overall make the car so much safer imo! The spring will be looser but not completely slack when the wheels are off the ground.
if you do the same as me but having 50mm machined off the length of the shocks you will never have any trouble at all.( if you do this never compress the shocks off the car).
Once finished the car is not lower and so much more driveable, only serious knocks come from large bumps that any lowered car would knock over.
Finished item:
my latest kit on my vts:
ive not had time to read this through fully so please let me know of any mistakes and i hope people interested make full use of it. thanks pete
