Steve, just daily driving so far with bump and rebound settings about 2 clicks off soft to give a good ride.
But for the next track day I'll certainly stiffen them up to see what happens.
A great feature of these coil-overs is the ability to easily reset them again to
exactly what you had before.
Re potholes and welding up that elongated hole in the KW bracket:Unfortunately like most coilovers, KW's also have the problem of tyre clearance with the fronts.
I use stock strut tops, and on the fronts I run - 1 degree camber (close to stock) giving only about 3 mm tyre/coil clearance, so in my case I doubt if welding them up to make them round would help much, because there would only have to be a tiny bit of movement for the tyre to rub on the front coil. You would also loose camber adjust-ability.
My solution to prevent this ever happening was to first carefully check for the right camber and the bolts for tightness.
Then I fitted a spacer/wedge in between the hub and the strut body at the top. Since the elongated hole is at the top, that should totally stop any tendency for the hub to rotate in the bracket.
I only fitted these to the fronts because the rears have heaps of tyre/strut clearance anyway.
These were made from aluminum with the inside surface concave to match the shape of the strut, and the step at the top makes for easy removal.
They were carefully ground down to the right thickness with a very slight taper, and are tapped in so they are wedged tight, then wired so they can't fall out.
post edited by Reddtarga - 2014/05/11 16:58:32