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Old May 18, 2011 | 12:16 PM
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Coilovers to low!! need some help

hey guys i have an 05 evo and i have some apexi n1 coilovers on it and the rear driver is all the way up and is still to low! what might cause this? the rear passenger is almost all the way up also
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Old May 18, 2011 | 12:31 PM
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Can you tell if the Apexi have separate ride height adjustability. If there is a perch at the bottom, then thats where you need to adjust the ride height!
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Old May 18, 2011 | 12:49 PM
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if your coilovers look like this you are able to adjust from the spring and the perch just like chu said. make sure you have adjust both and make sure that your rear suspension have the same spring height. you can cause pre-mature damper failure due to different spring height or just bottoming out.
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Old May 18, 2011 | 06:19 PM
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im going to have to take the wheel back off and look i got the coilovers from a preformance place in dallas tx that was going out of business and they were a display so they were already assembled but i will check to see if the lower ring is up or not and then also talked with my buddy and he thinks they are not indeed apexi n1 that they are tanabe pro s 0c coilovers would that be the same?
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Old May 18, 2011 | 08:36 PM
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Same principle, look to see if you can adjust it from the perch. If you can adjust as needed.
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Old May 19, 2011 | 05:24 PM
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this is what im working with
i tried to turn the lower perch but would not move
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Old May 19, 2011 | 05:47 PM
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Most need to be removed from the lower mount.

Unscrew the lock ring.
Remove the bottom mount.
Unscrew to raise.
Attach bottom mount.
Drop it, check it, if correct, tighten the lock nut.
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Old May 23, 2011 | 06:36 PM
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no such thing as too low!
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Old Jun 10, 2011 | 08:04 PM
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ok update to this is that i did need to take the complete coilover off to raise the lower perch up just fyi
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Old Jun 11, 2011 | 07:01 AM
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That's what I figured. Thanks for the update, glad you got it sorted out.
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