I did my first autox on the Tein RA's yesterday, and holy crap are they bouncy.

The bounciness was pretty bad on course, the car wasn't really settled so I definitely have a problem. I think partially this is attributed to the struts having sat idle for a long time before they were installed (they're used). I also didn't attempt to adjust the stiffness and think they may be set too stiff. I'm running 8k/6k currently, will be going 10k/12k as soon as the new springs come. They're fully unaligned too at this point - rears look pretty even/straight eyeballing it, fronts are all wacked - somewhere around 3 deg neg camber and i didn't mess with toe at all.

Anybody have similar experience?

Jay

I tested mine for about 10 seconds on full stiff and had the same problem. Got out of the car and changed it back immediately.
Out of 24 way adjustability, I run about (up from soft) 12fr/8rr for the street and about 12-16 front and 16-18 rr on course with no bounce.
This was on HA's with a 10/9 setup.

Scott

Agreed... full hard I got bounce... A few clicks from full hard and it was much better if it existed at all. :)

--kC

I'll take a look at that, its what i'd suspected too.

edit: I'm a tein RA n00b, are the adjusters just the knobs on the bottom of the struts? They're not turning easy, I guess I may need to give them a little TLC

Jay

Agreed... full hard I got bounce... A few clicks from full hard and it was much better if it existed at all. :)

--kC

Independent bound/rebound? I up-ed the rebound in the rear and the bounce went away. If not independent, full stiff was causing the tire to be the "effective spring rate" and the tire has no built in "dampener" hence, bounce bounce bounce......

OK i got them adjusted down, seem better although I haven't autox'ed them yet. I'm wondering what settings you guys use for daily driving. I fully expected bounciness but I'm hoping to minimize the choppy ride over cement thats got joints - know what I mean?

Did older RA's have no clicks? It seems to just be "turn and pray you got them even" on these unless they're broken.

Jay

You should ask Greg. He has some on his car.


Mick

tein is a really good brand, i enjoyed riding in the sti with just the s-techs on it

tein is a really good brand, i enjoyed riding in the sti with just the s-techs on it

^^^^ :lol: :lol: :disco: :disco: :banana: :banana:

Jon

Stylin' with my ass drag'in S-Techs ... :rolleyes:

If the RA are like my Flex's ... the adjustment knob should be VERY easy to turn! On the Flex's ... you should start at full hard ... and work towards Soft ... clock-wise.

You should only go 16 clicks down from full stiff (with Flex's) ... even though you could turn it much further ... DON'T !

The RA knobs are easy to turn now that I cleaned them up a bit, they had gunk built up. Full stiff is clockwise, soft is 3 full rotations of the knob counter clockwise.

Maybe I should just get s-techs. :)

I'm running 8k/6k currently, will be going 10k/12k
This would normally require a revalve. Stock the RAs run 8k +/- 2k front and 6k +/- 2k rear. Those who run 10k/12k at least get the rears revalved.

This would normally require a revalve. Stock the RAs run 8k +/- 2k front and 6k +/- 2k rear. Those who run 10k/12k at least get the rears revalved.


As far as we know KC did not get his revalved so we were going to go with this setup without revalving.

joe