Ridetech coil overs how to adjust ride higher?

[oakhill510]

Hey Josh,

I believe it was you who helped me out with choosing the correct coil and shock for my car. I had contacted you via email about installing the ridetech coil overs with ebay tube arms and your reply was that it might sit too high and that I might need universal coils overs.

In order for you to get me the right universal coil overs, you needed measurements and sent me the link to the measurements.



After I gave you my measurements, it turned out that the coils overs I have are the right ones and that I didn't need the universal ones. What I did needed was a T-Bar to mount the the coils over onto the ebay tube arms.

We last spoken via email in July 2019.

[Josh@Ridetech]

Hey Josh,

I believe it was you who helped me out with choosing the correct coil and shock for my car. I had contacted you via email about installing the ridetech coil overs with ebay tube arms and your reply was that it might sit too high and that I might need universal coils overs.

In order for you to get me the right universal coil overs, you needed measurements and sent me the link to the measurements.

After I gave you my measurements, it turned out that the coils overs I have are the right ones and that I didn't need the universal ones. What I did needed was a T-Bar to mount the the coils over onto the ebay tube arms.

We last spoken via email in July 2019.

Ok, good deal (sorry, too many days since we talked then ). That makes me question if we're on the same page when we're talking about measuring the ride height.

The only thing that makes sense to me is that you're topping the shocks out now when you're trying to compress the spring (the shock can't physically get any longer). With the car at driving height, what does the shock measure from t-bar to the hole in the subframe? After that, jack the front end up and let everything hang freely. Does the shock dimension change? PM me your email address, I'd like to pull up that conversation just to refresh everything we talked about.

***edit - I just searched my email with your name on here hoping it would pull something up...and it did. Now, I've got all the info and notes I made so no worries!

Looking back at the invoice, the dealer who originally placed the order for the shocks did buy them for the ridetech tubular control arms. From the notes I still have on your account, we verified that you still needed a 12.75" driving height on the shock, which is exactly what the shock we use is, so we left that as is. The only thing that you still needed was a t-bar to mount on a factory style lower mount, so we got those ordered up. I'm thinking those ride height measurements we took before might not be what you needed to accomplish what you're trying to hit now.

Trying taking those measurements mentioned above and let me know what happens.

[oakhill510]

I'm glad you found records of our emails. When you say at "driving height", is that the height I want the car to be at? In order for me to get to the height I want it to be at, I am going to have to jack up the car or, wait until I order the 18" fronts. It's going to be awhile before I order the front wheels. I am using the money to narrow the rear end as my next task.

But yeah, If I jack up the car to the height I want to be at, will the measurement be accurate? Or should I wait until I have the 18" wheels installed?

Also, I can get you measurements with the 15" wheels I have on now and get you the measurements when the car is jacked up. Let me know. Thanks for helping me. I know its an headache on your side since the coil overs wasn't made to be installed with the ebay arms.

[Josh@Ridetech]

I'm glad you found records of our emails. When you say at "driving height", is that the height I want the car to be at? In order for me to get to the height I want it to be at, I am going to have to jack up the car or, wait until I order the 18" fronts. It's going to be awhile before I order the front wheels. I am using the money to narrow the rear end as my next task.

But yeah, If I jack up the car to the height I want to be at, will the measurement be accurate? Or should I wait until I have the 18" wheels installed?

Also, I can get you measurements with the 15" wheels I have on now and get you the measurements when the car is jacked up. Let me know. Thanks for helping me. I know its an headache on your side since the coil overs wasn't made to be installed with the ebay arms.

No problem at all!

Correct, the driving height you're needing it to be at.

The best thing to do would be to get the wheels and tires on the car that you're going to end up with and then measure the driving height on the shocks. Either that, or put something on the car that will have the same overall diameter you're going to end up with, see if everything is sitting how you want it to, and then measure the shock height.

[oakhill510]

Hey Josh,

Still need your help here brother. I know you're busy with other stuff as well.

[Josh@Ridetech]

Hey Josh,

Still need your help here brother. I know you're busy with other stuff as well.

Were you able to get any of the dimensions I mentioned above?

[oakhill510]

Oh man, I don't know what happen. Until I sent in the last message about still needing help, I didn't even see all these responses from you and other guys. My apologies.

I understood everything you said in your last message. I'll wait until I get the front wheels and tire on so I can know where I want my height to be. Thank you all for all the replies. Appreciate it very much.