JUBU spec Ohlins TTX suspension road & sport (2-way)… PURE ART

[sixtyy]

gee might just travel to austria and bring it back.

 

[docron]

For those following along, what @F1 SML8R is referring to is that you can raise or lower your car’s height about 5mm with your OEM Bilsteins.

If you compress your springs and move the lower perch up, there are 3 indentations with a retaining circlip under that lower perch hat. You could move the circlip higher or lower to achieve the 5mm raise or lowering. Looks like it is set at +0 station coming from the factory.
(I used a 5mm spacer for reference of indentation distances)

 

[docron]

Some tips for coilover swapping:
(Which is oversimplified in the Service Manual )

FRONTS:
1. You have to remove the wheel arch liner
2. You have to disconnect swaybar endlink
3. You have to compress spring to be able to disconnect upper coilover bolt from mounting bracket to be able to shimmy bracket and coilover out from upper and lower wishbones
(Ohlins comes with its own mounting bracket where I think other coilovers uses the OEM mounting bracket)
4. Refer to Service Manual for torque specs
5. All bolts were easy to get to using normal tools with minimal extensions needed. Cheater bars make job much simpler.
6. You will play Jenga trying to remove coilover and mounting bracket from wishbones and swear accordingly.

REARS:
1. You DO NOT need to remove wheel arch liner
2. You DO NOT need to disconnect swaybar endlink
3. You DO NOT need to disconnect coilover from mounting bracket
4. Pay attention to offset orientation of aftermarket coilover lower mounting bolt hole for correct side installation
5. See #4&5 tips for Rears listed above

Extra tip:
The wheel arch liners for some reason uses retaining screw type push fasteners which took forever to remove. Take this opportunity to convert them all to push fasteners for future wheel arch liner removals.

 

[Orchardbike]

For those following along, what @F1 SML8R is referring to is that you can raise or lower your car’s height about 5mm with your OEM Bilsteins.

If you compress your springs and move the lower perch up, there are 3 indentations with a retaining circlip under that lower perch hat. You could move the circlip higher or lower to achieve the 5mm raise or lowering. Looks like it is set at +0 station coming from the factory.
(I used a 5mm spacer for reference of indentation distances)

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Isn’t this only an option on the 2.0i and not the V6?

 

[F1 SML8R]

Isn’t this only an option on the 2.0i and not the V6?

I believe this is on all variants. Although the spring rates may be different across variants, the design of the OE Bilstien coilover is identical. So all cars have this feature. The real question, is it worth the labor for only a 5mm change?

 

[Orchardbike]

I believe this is on all variants. Although the spring rates may be different across variants, the design of the OE Bilstien coilover is identical. So all cars have this feature. The real question, is it worth the labor for only a 5mm change?

Someone in a previous post stated that it was 2.0 only.

 

[F1 SML8R]

Someone in a previous post stated that it was 2.0 only.

There's a video of the guys from PB Racing (see the 48 second mark) where he is talking about his new in-house developed springs vs the OE and they show this notch. If you look at the video and zoom in to the exhaust, you'll see it has the V6 exhaust (third cat delete uses a flange mount vs a V clamp wrap-around).


Lotus being Lotus, it could be on some V6's and not others, but given the parts are not theirs, I doubt it. Bilstien probably has this as an off the shelf shock, therefore they should all be identical (sans the spring rates that keep changing).