DIY: BC Racing Mini Coilover Install Write Up

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If your car is already lowered with lowering springs this will be super quick and painless. Biggest tip is to jack up car on both sides take off wheels and remove both sway bar 14mm top bolts on each side so there is no uneven tension, DO THIS FIRST! Job can be completed in 30 minutes with this technique

1) With swaybar endlinks off, use jack handle as breaker bar to take out 17mm pinch bolt in back of shock

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2) Loosen top nuts. Turn steering wheel towards the direction your working in and pops out

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3) Out of the knuckle take care not have the axle pop out of transaxle. If it does don't panic and gently push in back and forth moving side to side until it pops in no big deal

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4) Put in your coilover and hand tighten top nuts very loose just enough so it doesn't fall.Place jack under lower control arm and gently lift so coilover goes inside knuckle. If you start feeling resistence, STOP and release the jack and start over take your time this is suppose to be fun

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5) On the back of the coilover for bc there is a little metal shark fin that is used to guide the rear of the shock to the pinch bolt location. Grab the coilver and rotate while its still in the knucke and it will drop right in the slot letting you know its properly positioned

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6) Tighten all your nuts now. Back 17 mm on pinch bolt. IMPORTANT NOTE: Install the sway bar endlinks LAST after both sides are done. Doing one at a time will creat tension on one side making the other side impossible to line up.

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7) Before I installed the coilover I measured to make sure both sides were equal length and same preload (which they were) I like to make a mark on the front if I have to adjust it later and can count the turns making sure both sides are level. I have used the measuring tape route but find this is a lot quicker and equally precise if you count your turns correctly

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8) Throw wheels on

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9) Dupont Teflon grease on spherical bearings

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10) Threw on megan strut bar. Those with sedans and coupes will be happy to know that the studs on the bc coilovers are really long so no worry about not being fully threaded on strut bars

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did you really make a new post for every step

Thanks for the write up
 
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did you really make a new post for every step

Thanks for the write up

lol yes i didnt know how to do it the other way, sorry guys
 
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With this write up, do you still need to take off the 3 17mm bolts on the control arm?
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