1970 GTO Version 2.0

[Scott LaPointe]

You're right, the heights don't affect the weights, but keeping the frame level keeps the suspension geometry the same side to side. Chances are you are still pretty close because you don't have adjusters on the front. Getting the cross weight back to 50% is probably the bigger deal.

[gearbanger]

I ran into this on my car too. This is not real technicle, but in trying to level my car, It took about 1.5" of shims to raise the drivers side rear of my GTO .5" I was really scratching my head on that one. But once I thought it through, I assumed it was because the paasenger side front spring was a little longer than the driver side was, and what I was doing was trying to fight the front spring with the much weaker back spring so it took alot more shim. That is where coil overs would definitely be nice.

Andrew, do you have any updates?

[Scott LaPointe]

[QUOTE=gearbanger;804500]I ran into this on my car too. This is not real technicle, but in trying to level my car, It took about 1.5" of shims to raise the drivers side rear of my GTO .5" I was really scratching my head on that one. But once I thought it through, I assumed it was because the paasenger side front spring was a little longer than the driver side was, and what I was doing was trying to fight the front spring with the much weaker back spring so it took alot more shim. That is where coil overs would definitely be nice.

Alex, You are correct on why you needed 1.5" of shim to correct .5" of height. Did you just level the car without checking cross weight? If so you probably have a car that will turn left better than right. It's trickier to balance cross weight with keeping ride height correct. I am used to doing it with height adjusters on all four corners. I'm not sure it's possible to do both with just adjusting spring height in the rear.