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Originally Posted by batchman
(snip) and with the advent of C5 style adjusters on the front springs there is easy ride height/corner weight adjustment too.
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I wasn't aware of any C4 front springs with C5-style adjustment screws. What company makes them?
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One point I didn't see you mention though is load path. I hesitate to muck with the factory decision making process for how transient loads transfer to the structure. The front appears "worthy" but believe the addition of a "camber brace" would be highly helpful. I would really hesitate to put the full load of the car on the single-shear rear shock mount though - even though it is stout that is a pretty good lever to ask a chunk of aluminum to bear on a good pothole hit. Perhaps part of my trepidation is having needed to make a sleeve to space my bottom shock mount away from the knuckle (so it could articulate), making the "lever" even longer...
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The post I made got kind of long so I decided not to cover that. My gut feeling is there might be a problem with loading on those parts but I really had not information to support it. In defense of C4 coil-over conversions, I'm not aware of anyr reports of fatigue failures of C4 shock mounts on cars converted to coils.
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Agreed. I too have a skew side-to-side in the rear, maybe as much as 3/8 inch. I don't think the car is bent, just the way it is and by looking at more than a few C4s it seems not unusual.
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I've seen C4s like that, too.
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Here's where I would love to find adjustable end links. I don't have a perfectly level garage (but I don't think it's really far out), but I do get a bit of preload on installing sway bars. Since Mr Guldstrand has left us, his fine (although spendy) adjustable links dried up just as I was ready to bite the bullet and order them.
Sigh,
- Jeff
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Russ addresses that above and I bet there are others making heim-jointed stabilizer bar links. You can even do it the po-white-trash way and just use washers between the stock end link spacers and the seats the link cushions sit on, but, yeah...heims look much cooler and sharpen bar response.