How low is your front coilovers from the ground to the middle of your fender well? I'm having trouble with mine and they don't want to lower anymore than where it's at? I'd like some feedback.

 

i think mine was around 25"

 

I think my fronts are exactly 25.5

 

how much would you sell your wheels for? i have them already but i need another set so i can run 9's in the front too. (should have been a pm)

i don't have an answer to your question but if you want to be low, get ksports or d2's.

 

My BC's are fine, definitely won't go with K sports. I'm lower than everyone wtf? I'm at 24.60", I wanna go to 24" but it won't budge, I redid the preload and nothing.

 

I have a feeling you're doing it wrong, the rears will bottom out for sure because of how the body encloses the whole shock, but the fronts, you will get to a point to where the shock body will hit the axle, that's when you can't go any lower with that method, once there you will have to compress the spring a bit to get that extra .5 inch, but not too much more

 

I've had the spring compressed from the get go way past the 5mm preload with the shock bottom lowered another .60" and the height didn't move. I also did it vise verse, dropped the preload on the spring and lifted back to it's original mark and it still didn't do anything. Still read the same height.

 

Sooo you're doing that in the video right?

 

only reason i couldnt go lower when i had mine, at the time i didnt have a low profile jack. but i had it go lower to the point the jack wouldnt come from under the car and had to readjust, so i never got to measure

 

Yup, that's the only way to adjust it, and the guy in video should've said counter clockwise not clock wise.

 

I still have to tighten my preload some more
, my spring makes noise on dips.

 

Did you loosen the bottom 2 bolts? Should make it a bit easier to twist.

 

The spindle bolts? No I didn't, it twist just fine, that's not the problem, lowering is the problem.

 

Buddy of mine is an Infiniti Technician and he has several Nissans with coilover systems, he told me that the shock is too strong and it won't expand/compress anymore. That's what I've been thinking from the get go as well, that's why I want to see several ride heights from BC racing owners.

 

I got to thinking last night, maybe because my camber is at 0 is the reason why I won't go lower? I know the more you lower, the more neg camber your going to get and the higher you raise it the more pos camber you get, I don't know, have to check that out.

 

Camber is a separate adjustment. You can zero your camber when you are low as well.

 

Yea I know, It was something to ponder, I guess I'm maxed out and can't go lower

 

i could crank my collars all the way down no issue...

 

So can I, but the weird thing is, the height doesn't change, it can keep threading and threading and nada, I tested it with that .60" I wanted lower like 3 times already, and yea it's a big difference.

 

That doesn't make any sense because the shock damper does not compress when adjusting ride height, the shock body is threaded into the lower mount which does nothing to the stroke/travel/compression of the damper itself.

I would remove the coilover completely from the car and try to spin the lower mount upwards towards the lower spring perch to close that gap.

 

It'll be the same if I do it on the car. Only other thing could be is the lower mount could be stripped, but in that case, it wouldn't thread at all and it does.

 

I'm going to see if my GF can take a video of my adjusting them, taking measurements before and after.

 

I might of found the resolution, but it's something to try tomorrow. Somebody told me they read that somebody strut bar wasn't letting the car lower due to the stiffness of the strut bar, so i'll try lowering tomorrow without my strut bar on. It does and doesn't make sense, but we'll see

 

has absolutely nothing to do with it. if you want to go low with BC's sell them and get d2's or ksports...or call bc and get shortened strut cartridges.

 

I know someone locally that's slammed on BC's, there's gotta be a solution, I'm not going crazy, I know how suspension works.

 

what size wheel are you running I'm dropped on BC's and I noticed a half inch difference between 17s and 18s

 

I've been between 17 & 18's, waiting on my new 18's to come in, then I'll mess with the coilovers again.

 

Update, so I've been talking to BC back and forth, they want me to adjust everything their way(which I've done just in reverse), if not, BC says I need to buy shorten shock bodies? I can't believe other people are slammed on BC's and I can't? This is weird, I hope "their" way works.

 

BC is on my **** list right now, can't believe I can't lower .5", I have to buy new shorten shock bodies, fml...

 

I was going to make a new thread, but I figured I would post up in here first since there are other BCR owners already in here.

Ever since I got my BCR coilovers installed, the front ones have squeaked pretty loudly for a few days after they get wet (after it rains or I wash the car). I have set and reset my preload, and I know it's correct, and I can't figure out what else I can do to eliminate this squeaking. IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY! Can anyone help me out here? Is there something I need to lubricate?

 

I never had any squeaky noise, there's a thread on here on how to set preload.

 

Yes, I know, I've read it many times.

 

my front passenger side coil is seized