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Kevin Doe

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May 13, 2003
Cincinnati, Ohio
I didn't want to put this in the parts review, since I don't feel like writting up a huge in depth review. I'll just post it here. Also, I though it would be nice for people to get some more pics than what they show on the JIC site.

I got my JIC coilovers on. Here are some pics. When I get home I'll post some pics of the actual coilovers. They are very nice pieces. I still need to do some adjustments on them, but so far they're pretty nice.

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Here are some Product Pics I took before and after the install.

This is a picture of the full set of everything that came with it. Damn my garage floor looks good!
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Front Coilover. Notice the bottom adjustable mount bracket. This allows height adjustment w/o changing spring preload allowing you to retain full travel at all ride heights. These do not show my settings, this is just how it came in the box.
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Rear Coilover. Due to my extremely high rear spring rate I had to use helper springs to get it to sit at 50% stroke statically. The helpers are not a standard part. I had to preload the helpers a bit too, to get it to sit right at 50% stroke statically. These do not show my settings, this is just how it came in the box.
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Front Camber plate. Pillow ball upper mount, camber adjustable. High quality. This is actually a revised plate recommend to JIC by me and coolnick. They actually incoporated the change throughtout their whole 1G AWD line.
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Fronts all lubed up and initial setup done.
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Rears all lubed up and initial setup done.
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I went with 8k front, 10k rear with helpers. Sorry for the stupid description of the features, I copied and pasted it from my local forum, and some people aren't familiar with JICs.

Kevin
 
Were the shock shaft boots standard? Or were they special request, because mine didn't come with them...
 
Just as an update, I aligned it yesterday. Here are my specs.

Front:
Camber: -2.4 deg
Caster: 2.9
Toe: 0.06 deg total out

Rear:
Camber: -1.7 deg
Toe: Zero toe


This alignmend really helped out. The initial impression I get from it now is that the turn in is amazing, and the car is pretty neutral in the corners. It seems to rotate easy enough when I want it to, but in a controlled way. I've yet to really start tuning the damping, but right now I'm on the 5th softest setting on all 4.

I also raised it up a bit from those pics. I'm up 1/2" in front and 1/4" rear from those pics. Which puts me are really close to 13.25" from centerline of wheel to fender edge on all 4.

Kevin
 
Did you have to get a camber kit to adjust camber?

I have JIC's but I have not played at all with height or anything as the car has yet to be driven much with them on (<25 miles)
 
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