Yellow Speed Racing coilovers

Bauer · Postby **Bauer** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:49 am

crum wrote:All of the yellowspeed stuff has non height adjustable rears? That's pretty shocking isn't it? I would expect height and damper adjustable options on all fours if I were purchasing a coilover?

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wasnt it only the very first ones that were only height adjustable by the springs? All the new ones are ok

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:44 pm

Ysr hVe had height adjustmentin thw rear for a loooong time ago. Had mine for a while now and theyre basicalky identical to bc be. The onky thing I dont like is rhat the geight in the rear is pretty weak at its lowest, but gelper springs are available for those who want low

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:45 pm

Damn phone...

neilhr · Postby **neilhr** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:03 pm

nanotech wrote:Ysr hVe had height adjustmentin thw rear for a loooong time ago. Had mine for a while now and theyre basicalky identical to bc be. The onky thing I dont like is rhat the geight in the rear is pretty weak at its lowest, but gelper springs are available for those who want low

Hey nano, where do you acquire these helper springs?

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:25 pm

Contact mania or a place that sells yellowspeed stuff. I think they were $60 a pair

neilhr · Postby **neilhr** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:33 pm

nanotech wrote:Contact mania or a place that sells yellowspeed stuff. I think they were $60 a pair

cool thanks, so this will allow an extra inch or so?

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:32 pm

Yeah from my understanding it allows you to adjust the height from the spring collar but keep the springs captive. Id say a good inch or two

Jace · Postby **Jace** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:23 pm

Helper springs are only there to keep the springs captive when there's no load on their corner ie. three wheeling turn-in or getting airborne.

If you have them in and wind the coils up, they will just bind up rock hard. They are compressible by hand so will have very very little effect on ride or handling.

Might as well have an alloy shim turned up to essentially make the lower spring seating collar an inch thicker.

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:38 pm

Dude you don't tighten the collar over the spring. When you max out the cars lowest setting using the lower height ajustment spring, you can further lower it by slackening off the collar the springs sit on. However if you want to go propper low, the trade off is that you will nolonger have captive springs and the springs will be floating.
With helper springs, you can wind the spring collar out and get the car low but at the same time keep them captive at all times. Therefore you can slam the car if you wanted and still have captives.

Bauer · Postby **Bauer** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:19 pm

I tighten the collar for more low. Slackening it off raises the ride height.

Bauer · Postby **Bauer** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:47 pm

Bauer wrote:I tighten the collar for more low. Slackening it off raises the ride height.

and of course I got that wrong

When I installed mine I had guard scrape and had to wind up the collar to raise it a touch.

Jace · Postby **Jace** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:24 pm

nanotech wrote:Dude you don't tighten the collar over the spring. When you max out the cars lowest setting using the lower height ajustment spring, you can further lower it by slackening off the collar the springs sit on. However if you want to go propper low, the trade off is that you will nolonger have captive springs and the springs will be floating.
With helper springs, you can wind the spring collar out and get the car low but at the same time keep them captive at all times. Therefore you can slam the car if you wanted and still have captives.

Having helper springs will just make things less clunky with the lower spring perch wound down. That's it.

You said the YSR rear height is weak at the lowest adjustment and sounds like you think helper springs will help to get lower...?

project.r.racing · Postby **project.r.racing** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:11 pm

Personally I would just get springs 20mm shorter if you are trying to so lower. A helper spring when compressed will be 6-7mm thick, so actually adding height to said car. So you really have to wind down the spring perch/foot to compensate for that also. Hence also reducing shck stroke and the shoke's effectiveness.