Originally Posted by Fronkenstein

My car sits 26" at the front and 24.5" at the rear when the car is fully settled. Having compared my car to an 84.5, if I try to get the height close I have a very springy car. I know this is due to weak shocks. However, there is no way in God's green earth that this car with S3 springs is ever going to get to 24.5". In fact in checking the height of the car when I originally bought it, with its original 78 springs and shocks, it was too high. And I have had a few people tell me that 78-80 cars were quite high.

Not to be a jerk but I would like to get back on topic. Has anyone actually successfully and properly brought an early shark to 24"-25" ride height at the wheel center. Yes I realize I am abusing the center of the wheel well as a measurement point. I know its a bogus measurement but for sake of this discussion... Running the adjustment collars to zero is not the solution. You're at the end of the spring, meaning your suspension will require a deeper compression to reach the proper inflection and shock damping point. Yes you may want to soften up or stiffen up from time to time. However those changes also significantly change camber and are meant to be changed for the conditions under which you will be running for the day. If you go in there and ***** nilly change the height and let it go with that you're going to chew up tires.

Anyway. I am still looking for someone who has an early car that has solved this with alternative springs either by cutting and retempering or via Hypercoil et al.

Fronkenstein