Who did you buy your front coil overs from ? Rear lowering bolts and front coilovers is the plan for my C4 too.
Who did you buy your front coil overs from ? Rear lowering bolts and front coilovers is the plan for my C4 too.
I pieced them together following this thread. Coilovers I think all the components came from eBay as those were the best prices I could find when I ordered.
It may not be the optimal coilover setup but the price was much better than the ready made kits for C4 Corvettes.
PerniciousLies said:I pieced them together following this thread. Coilovers
It may not be the optimal coilover setup but the price was much better than the ready made kits for C4 Corvettes.
Thank you. I'm about to start reading that thread now. Did you follow his recipe exactly and did you have any troubles ?
In reply to Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) :
The only think I did different is that I bought 500 lb springs. I haven't installed the coilover setup yet so I can't speak to how well it works. It looks like everything will go together though.
This is perfect. Daily driving a car from the 80s and fixing/upgrading as opportunities present themselves is very much my style. I wish I still did that.
I would also be interested in hearing how well the coilover setup works. I am thinking about this setup for the front, but I am concerned there won't be enough shock travel with the eye to shaft adapter on the fronts.
I'm horrible about keeping this updated. I've been driving on the coilovers for about 18 months now with no problems. I initially had them set at full firm and super low, which not surprisingly gave an unpleasantly rough ride. I recently raised the front about an inch and backed off the firmness. It rides much better, and I no longer scrape nearly as often.
I was also getting squeaking and binding from my trailing arms with poly bushings, so I installed a set of solid heim joint ended ones that I pieced together from a parts list on Corvette Forum.
Not to worry, the brakes in the pic above have been replaced.
As I mentioned in a previous post, my climate control hasn't worked since I bought the car. I ended up having both the controller and programmer rebuilt. This wasn't cheap, but it needed to be done to make this thing liveable as a DD. Having working defrost is huge during cold weather, and it's nice to be able to close the windows in the summer when it's raining.
This is still my DD, and I generally put a couple hundred miles a week on it. I am working on a mini truck that may take over DD duties once I get it on the road, but we'll see how that goes. I still enjoy the Vette, and have more plans for it.
how much (if any) change did you notice in NVH after swapping to the heim jointed arms?
I didn't notice a change. Having said that, NVH isn't something I'm very sensitive to because of the vehicles that I drive, as well as the wind noise from old door and window seals. Plus, the suspension on this car was already pretty rigid from being lowered on poly bushings.
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