Group buy on the Diayama coilovers

[peter thomson]

Is the 8KG front or rear? If front, one option would be to get 2 12kg or 14kg springs and put the 8kg on the rear and 12kg/14kg up front

They are on the front Kenneth and it's 14's I have asked for. I just hope it can be sorted out soon

[phosty]

Peter, I measured the lower brackets/sleeves on mine to compare:

Front: 125mm
Rear: 167mm

That's measuring from the top to very bottom (including the round rubber bushing part on the rears).

[phosty]

...after fitting the camber adjusters to the front suspension .....

Oh, I forgot to add, are these the ones from the US for the Galant they have? Don't they need to be trimmed slightly with a grinder to fit?

Back to the springs - I have inquired about springs from other sources.

Hypercoil do a whole range of sizes, lengths and rates. I was quoted £35 for a pair a couple of months ago.

[peter thomson]

Peter, I measured the lower brackets/sleeves on mine to compare:

Front: 125mm
Rear: 167mm

That's measuring from the top to very bottom (including the round rubber bushing part on the rears).

Thanks Phil I'll check mine this weekend.

[peter thomson]

Oh, I forgot to add, are these the ones from the US for the Galant they have? Don't they need to be trimmed slightly with a grinder to fit?

Back to the springs - I have inquired about springs from other sources.

Hypercoil do a whole range of sizes, lengths and rates. I was quoted £35 for a pair a couple of months ago.

Yes they are from the US but not the same design as Carsten(Gly) fitted .They are the sliding ones rather than the cam operated ones and I didn't have to do any grinding.

Latest news from Gary is that he is looking at another coilover supplier and may ask them about helping out with springs.
Gary is also with holding payment to Daiyama until they supply the parts myself and others are waiting for.

Hypercoil sound promising if things don't work out.

[phosty]

Thanks Phil I'll check mine this weekend.

Did you ever manage to measure your adaptor pieces Peter?

Also, where did you find the camber adjusters from? Are they the ones shown in your gallery pics?

P.S. I see you have the same Eonon head-unit I went for. Not the best are they?

[peter thomson]

Hi Phil no haven't had the chance to measure them. At the moment Gary is sourcing new springs from another manufacturer.
Adjusters are from Rock auto in the states and no grinding required.
Yes there ok through an amp but not great. I will replace it when I have some spare money.

[Kieran]

Rock Auto eh? I've used them before. They've supplied a lot of the parts for the coupe that I couldn't get over here - Great prices & Delivery. Unfortunately as they're totally above board they do accurately declare the value on the customs forms. And they use UPS who have more zeal than most in making sure you get charged accordingly!

[peter thomson]

Rock Auto eh? I've used them before. They've supplied a lot of the parts for the coupe that I couldn't get over here - Great prices & Delivery. Unfortunately as they're totally above board they do accurately declare the value on the customs forms. And they use UPS who have more zeal than most in making sure you get charged accordingly!

Yes I got done with customs as well but the price was still great. The problem I had was that Rock didn't put in a value for postage which was only a few dollars but UPS or Fedex decided to value delivery at about $50

[peter thomson]

. At the moment Gary is sourcing new springs from another manufacturer.
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no further on with this and no reply from Gary . A year now since they were ordered and 10 months since fitted. I wish I had just paid the extra for Teins

[Nutter_John]

take him to the County court on the grounds that the good were never fit for purpose

[peter thomson]

I'm not sure how that works in Scotland but I think I'll have to look in to it.

take him to the County court on the grounds that the good were never fit for purpose

[Nutter_John]

sales of goods act , you have given him more than enough time to resolve the issues and he has failed in his duty as the supplier of the goods

[peter thomson]

I'll try and speak to my local CAB and see how I'm supposed to sort this out.

sales of goods act , you have given him more than enough time to resolve the issues and he has failed in his duty as the supplier of the goods

[phosty]

Maybe we could join up on this then Peter - I still haven't heard anything on my rear springs either (though I haven't been that persistent yet).

[phosty]

I had been musing though that if one was able to feed a modified hand controller a speed signal then it could achieve the variable damping with speed effect. In practice though with stop-start town driving the little stepper motors would probably burn out. You'd need some logic in there so that adjustments were only made after a pre-set duration at certain speeds. The Audi system uses magnetic fields/fluids so avoids the mechanical element and could be constantly varying.

I have also contemplated how I would want an electronic adjustment to work.

my thoughts are that I would want to be able to select between 2 modes, auto and manual. In manual mode the dampers would be adjusted by a single variable resistor (pot) which would adjust the damper settings in % from 0-99 proportionally with % the resistance provided by the pot.

In auto I would want the variable resistor to set the inital damper setting then some way to select between profiles (4 would probably do) that set the speed where the adjustment starts and then the amount of adjustment to give in relation to the speed. ie: Start = 65Kph + 10% @ 100Kph + 10% @ 120Kph + 20% @ 140Kph.
This would create a curve that could be followed at a resolution of say 5Kph. (to save the stepper motors from frying )

Dammit - seems somebody already beat us to the idea!:

https://www.rhdjapan.com/jdm-low/Tan...Kit-TEAS-61277


We should have patented the idea last year!

I wonder if it could be persuaded to work on Teins / Daiyamas etc....

[Mark 4]

That looks interesting. I have Tein coilovers at the top of my current shopping list but I may be interested in this kit now.

Do they do a fitment for our cars ?

Anyone else got coilovers on their wish list ?