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Old 06-16-2007   #1 (permalink)
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awile back i had BMR lowering springs put on my 2006 GT at the time the car sat 1/2 higher on the passenger side i thought i would drive it some and let everything seat ,well it's still 1/2 are all lowered s197 like this or just mine?
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Something doesn't sound right. Did you recheck your install? Springs seated properly?
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yup the guy that did the in stall and my self both looked .
and we checked the spring side by side out of the car thay look the same.
i sent a E the the shop i got them from but i have not heard back yet
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yup the guy that did the in stall and my self both looked .
and we checked the spring side by side out of the car thay look the same.
i sent a E the the shop i got them from but i have not heard back yet
Before you had the springs in did you compare them to ensure they were the same height?
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Are the springs compressed the same amount, on both sides? Like, is one spring stronger than the other? Would it matter if a spring was istalled "upside down"?
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Could be that one of the springs is upside down.
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thay were check and rechecked
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some pics but thay dont show much
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I'm not questioning you, but they don't look like they are seated right. And the in the second pic, the spring looks bowed out at the bottom. With those red springs, you shouldn't be able to see the black spring seats from that angle. I can't tell if they are upside down or not, but when I did my eibachs, I just put them in with the writing on the spring so I could read it correctly (not upside down). Do your springs have writing on them? Check that as an indicator.
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i hate to say it but i think your right and there in upside down i just turned the driver side a round and it looks better now for the other side
brb lol
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Don't feel bad. I wouldn't know if I didn't make the same mistake. I was lucky enough to catch it before I let the car down though.
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ok got them back in and it looks better in the back ,but the front passanger side is still not right wicth is strange because you can see its seated at the bottom
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Is the panhard ajusted correctly? It has to be adjusted with the axle loaded. Make sure you are on level ground when you do the adjustment. I just brought this up because it looks like you ran out of adustment in one of the pics.
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Seeing your real good at changing them now....switch sides and see what happens.
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Seeing your real good at changing them now....switch sides and see what happens.
Take the springs out and see if they are the same length.

If they are the same length switch them from side to side like suggested above.

If the “higher” side follows the change then one spring is a higher rate than the other. That is not uncommon in springs. I build design and tune high end suspension components for a living. Even the incredibly high dollar race springs can have very big variances in them. The “lower kits” that are available for our cars are bottom of the barrel junk as far as spring quality goes. It would not surprise me if you had one spring with a lot higher rate than the other.

You can check the spring rate by loading each one with the same amount of weight and measuring how much they compress. They should compress identically.
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