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    Quote Originally Posted by Shoppinit View Post
    Bilstein were good to me when I called them up. They were very apologetic that they didn't have any documentation for installing the PSS9's like KW do.

    That's good to know about the alignment. I keep meaning to get mine checked since I fitted the shocks, but haven't got round to it.

    One thing I found for the PSS9s is that they lower the car quite a lot. I'd be surprised if you manage to lower the car by ONLY 14mm.
    Bilstein told me that 12-14 mm is minimum drop. Any less drop may cause the shock to top out and clunk.

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    That's interesting. I actually have my front shocks as high as they'll go and occasionally I'll get a clunk when hitting a bump in the road like it was hitting the bump stops. Ride is otherwise perfect, so I'm not too worried.

    I wanted to get as close to stock height as possible. I called Bilstein in the UK and they told me that I could use the full range of the threaded strut. Maybe they were wrong. Although, if that's the case, why put a thread where you can't set the height?

    When I put them on, the car looked like this:



    After raising up as far as possible, it looks like this:

    Last edited by Shoppinit; December 3rd, 2009 at 18:17. Reason: spelling

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shoppinit View Post
    That's interesting. I actually have my front shocks as high as they'll go and occasionally I'll get a clunk when hitting a bump in the road like it was hitting the bump stops. Ride is otherwise perfect, so I'm not too worried.

    I wanted to get as close to stock height as possible. I called Bilstein in the UK and they told me that I could use the full range of the threaded strut. Maybe they were wrong. Although, if that's the case, why put a thread where you can't set the height?

    When I put them on, the car looked like this:



    After raising up as far as possible, it looks like this:

    They specify a height range it MUST be kept within...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Innovator View Post
    They specify a height range it MUST be kept within...
    Where do they specify that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shoppinit View Post
    Where do they specify that?
    In the specifed range that they mention in the specs.

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    Poor Tiger.

    1/2 his fortune, alimony till kingdom come, and child support forever.

    How stupid can you get.

    He better get winning again he has some overhead now.



    Quote Originally Posted by Innovator View Post
    In the specifed range that they mention in the specs.

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    Sorry D, one word, PRENUP It's OK to support kids forever, though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by snoopra View Post
    Sorry D, one word, PRENUP It's OK to support kids forever, though.
    (admittedly straying from topic but . . as usual, Dave started it)

    Yeah, but that prenup might just have a "cheating" clause in it, and Dave's 50% may look cheap in that case. Probably does, that's why they're rumored to be rewriting the prenup.

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