Finally got my coil-overs from LGMotorsports and thought I'd post some pics. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

The fronts were damaged on the threads but hopefully out of the useful range. It still sucks that they're damaged. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="gr_sad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /> I only took pics of the worst shock and some other pics of the front and rear assembly.

http://community.webshots.com/album/55807022udeYEk
Edit: Well, I'll own up to my own stupidity. I asked what was wrong with these pictures, implying that the front mounts were upside down. Indeed, both previous shocks I've had were mounted with the rod at the top AND on LG's web site the installed pics show this as well. After talking to LOU this morning and also another board member, I was informed that they could be mounted either way and that there is potential sprung weight savings by inverting them.

Comments on this??? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

<small>[ March 27, 2003, 10:54 AM: Message edited by: WEASEL ]</small>

 

Looks like the mounting plate was against the threads in shipping. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Embarrassed]" src="gr_emb.gif" /> Those things sure are perdy tho. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" /> Been thinking about some for my car. Primarily for the adjustability. Especially since verts seem to lower more in the rear with most spring kits.

 

You will never use those threads with that setup. The perch will just be a little tight when it comes off, but there is NO reason why it will EVER need to go that high, unless you are disassebling it 100%.

If you need to take the spring off, you just raise the perches until you can get the bottom perch up, and off the shaft. You will need a rubber mallet to get the bottom one off. Its a tight fit from Bilstein. <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />


Louis

 

So which way do the front shocks bolt up like in the picture or the other way when you get them on and try them out please tell me what you think i have a set also just havent put them on yet mine are set up just like in the pictures <img border="0" alt="[driving]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_driving3.gif" />

 

Shane,

You want the valve stem accessable, so it faces towards the tire in the front. In the rear, they face each other, with the threads on the bottom. If the threads are on top in the rear, it makes adjusting them tough.

I can adjust the rear in a matter of seconds once its up in the air. Its very nice to have the adjustability for street use too. When I load my car down with all my college stuff, it tends to sag a little in the rear <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> Jack it up, and 3 or 4 turns up on the perches, and its at normal ride height again. ( Remember to jack on the frame, not the rearend, this way you dont have to use a spanner) <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="gr_images/icons/cool.gif" /> When you get ready to put them on, feel free to PM or email me <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />

Take care

Louis

 

And post pics of em with the car on the ground, I wana see how low you set it down <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by G2 LS1:
<strong> Shane,

You want the valve stem accessable, so it faces towards the tire in the front. In the rear, they face each other, with the threads on the bottom. If the threads are on top in the rear, it makes adjusting them tough.

Louis </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ok, this was my original point...if you look at the front shocks in my pictures, the mounting plates are opposite from the norm and what is shown in the pics on LG's website.

The "normal" way is with the top mounting plate on the rod end. Had it been delivered this way, the plate would have rested on the spring during shipping and not damaged the threads. I realize and agree that it doesn't affect the function but it is nicer to get undamaged parts, especially expensive ones.

The other issue is the valve accessibility. I was told by Lou that I shouldn't have reason to mess with it for a loooong time. For me, that means that it doesn't really matter where it is but if good access is the issue then this again is opposite from where it should be. Installed the way they were delivered, the valve will be up at the top of the shock when on the car.

I just want to make sure that it's okay to install the fronts the way they were delivered before I spend my day doing them.

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by G2 LS1:
<strong> Shane,

If the threads are on top in the rear, it makes adjusting them tough.


Louis </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Is this not true for the fronts too?

Don't get me wrong. If I need to, changing the mounting plates aroung is not an issue...no big deal. I just want to know if there are reasons for mounting them that way.

Thanks!

Btw, any other G2 owners that want to chime in with their installs, feel free!

 

hey hey hey (crusty the clown)..... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

you finally got them, cool deal. That really does suck though about the banged threads, hopefully they are above the area you will use for adjustment.

Ok, to answer your question about install. When I installed my coilovers, I mounted "upside down" from how they are in the LG website pictures (mine are all mounted like your fronts are now). I did this on purpose for the following reason:

1) shocks don't care which side is up or down (they always compress or exspand...thats it)

2) the weight of the shock body is much heavier than the weight of the shock piston/valve rod/etc...

3) by mounting the "heavy" shock body on the car (on the top mount) and having the piston rod connected to the suspention piece (lower a-arm or rearend housing), you reduce unsprug weight


did I make that clear <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" /> ?

In truth, it probubly does not make much difference (unsprung weight) but it falls under the idea of doing "every little thing I can" to improve performance (same idea with...say....titanium valve spring retainers.....).

Afterwords, I found that by putting the shocks this way, I could get at the adjusting nuts really easy (when the tires are off) because they are so high (out from behind the rotors and such).


Hope everything goes smooth for you,

Chris

 

Hopefully i get them on in may sometime i paid around $1600 are they that good i sure hope so . thanks for saying which way to mount them. <img border="0" alt="[driving]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_driving3.gif" />

 

On mine the fronts look like the ones in the pictures the valves are up facing out towards the tire but the rears the valves or body is down mounting to the rearend should i flip there mounts on the rear shocks.

 

Looked at Weasels pictures again they are just like his.

 

Thanks Chris! That's all I need to know.

Wouldn't want to have to do the fronts twice. DOH! (Homer) <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

Shane...Hurry up!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="gr_images/icons/tongue.gif" />

 

Weasel im trying right now there is no dash,carpet,seats,door panels,rearend,gastank,motor,or trans, i have alot of work ahead of me. it has been like that for a year now and i want to smoke some new rustangs so i am starting to get stuff together. Did you mount the shocks how they were shipped with the mounts like in the pics.

 

I just went and looked at my car. The fronts are upsidedown as well, threads at the bottom.

I dont know why I thought they were right side up. Long Day <img border="0" title="" alt="[Embarrassed]" src="gr_emb.gif" />


Pm or email me if you have any questions I may be able to answer. <img border="0" alt="[driving]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_driving3.gif" />


Louis

 

I just read your EDIT: When we originally built the kit, the swaybar cam close to the spring- the main reason why they are mounted the way they are <img border="0" alt="[judgement]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_judge.gif" />

 

Bilstein shocks can be mounted either way. If you mount them with the threads up top, you get less unsprung weight. It dosen't matter except for that, and even that is not clear with the weight of the spring, compared to the weight of the shock, now that they are aluminum.

On the rear, there was a clearance consideration between the spring and the LCA etc. By mounting the rear with the threads at the bottom, it raised the spring and adjuster above the LCA and eliminated any issues. That was the only reason. Make sure that the shrader valve is NOT pointed toward the LCA also.

thanks

Hope you enjoy them.

Lou Gigliotti LGMotorsports

<small>[ April 01, 2003, 08:32 PM: Message edited by: LG Motorsports ]</small>

 

hey....did you ever get them on and working?

Chris

 

Hi
I want to say that I am VERY happy with the G2 Coil-overs I got for my 98 SS.
The car handles insane.
You will be blown away by the performance.

Mine came looking the same way, threads were scuffed up a little, Dont worry about it!!
its nothing
You will love these I promise.