BORING I KNOW.....NEW FRONT SHOCKS...HELP!!!

[Davyg]

Have just replaced front shock units on S1.5 with nice shiny new set from Tower View, and b4 anyone asks they are GAZ ones, cannot afford anything else am buying house and trying deperately to hang on to the tiv.

So Question One: How many turns on the setting knob to get about the right amount of hardness?? Not planning on doing track days..just want the thing for commuting (however, mundaneo is looming) Currently has 1 turn.

Question Two: What have i done wrong, becoz the bloody thing is now sitting lower than with the old 12 year springs and shocks....I suspect by anything up to two inches lower!! can start to see why people drive porkers!!

Question Three: Does the softness of the damper affect the ride height???


AAAAAAAAARGH

[shpub]

The ride height is adjustable. You can turn the spring base with a C spanner and it will raise or lower the car. As for turnson the shock, put it in the middle and try softening and hardening till you find what you want.

I'm running Gaz on the 520 and pretty pleased with them.

Steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

[Chingers]

Dave,
Suggest you give Tower View a ring. I bought a set of rear Gaz shocks and springs from them last week for my S1 and they came ready set for both height and damping. The difference over the old Konis in both areas is dramatic. They were also pretty helpful with the questions I had for them.
Best of luck
Chris Page

[Dave_H]

Dave,

I had the very same from Tower Veiw, I turned the damping down 4 clicks and raised the height by two rotations and the front feels fine (to me) and clears most speed humps etc without grounding out.

Cheers,

Dave.

[johno]

I run mine very low at the front....bonnet doesn't open fully !

As for Damping I'm running mine at 22 clicks at the moment. This is pretty hard. Some of it will depend on what springs they have supplied you. Whether they are the 400lb fronts or whether they have supplied standard front springs.

Cheers

Mark

[s2 giles]

I'm currently playing with new AVO's & springs and out of a possible 14 clicks, I have them set about 7 clicks which is quite firm but good ride qualities for long distance.

Height, crank up the base ring about 1" or so !

Have fun

[CarZee]

Howd'ya make sure all corners are level? corner scales to do it by weight distribution, or use a measuring stick or something?

[Paceracing]

Corner height is not as important as corner weight. Basically if you want the car to feel 'right' the best thing is to get the corner weights set up. I understand that some of the TVR specialists can do this, i.e. Tower View or Adrian Venn, or you can do what I did and buy a corner weight gauge from Demon Tweeks for around £100 and then play to your hearts content!!

Jas.

[CarZee]

cool.. so presumably both front wheels should show the same weight and likewise with rears...

what's the optimum front:rear ratio ? (not 50:50 I'd imagine.. )

[Paceracing]

The S series cars when corner weighted seem to be around 48/52 (front bias). In an ideal world this would be a rear bias, but it isn't too bad. The most important thing to do is to make sure that the weight across each axle is evenly distributed.
Example.
TVR S2 Overall weight 1000 Kgs
Front weight 550 Kgs.
Rear weight 450 Kgs.
N/S/F wheel 275 Kgs.
O/S/F wheel 275 Kgs.
N/S/R wheel 225 Kgs.
O/S/R wheel 225 Kgs.

In practice there is a slight Left/ Right bias on the rear axle of the 'S' which cannot be corrected with ride height adjustment alone. The only way to remove the bias is to physically reposition weight within the car.

Jas.

[CarZee]

quote:The only way to remove the bias is to physically reposition weight within the car.

TED - GET OUT OF THE CAR, MATE!