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Originally Posted by JAAY
Please tell me you do not put the springs in backwards. If possible. Cause it would look like that if you did. What suspension did you put in? or redo?
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You know that thought was one that crossed my mind early on in the build...But...I pulled the front suspension off first and replaced it with the new parts before I even yanked off the rear suspension so it was a one for one replacement, front for front and rear for rear.
So, in between meetings at work today, I spent some time looking at other forums regarding suspension issues and it is quite surprising how many people have had issues with the front being higher after replacement and worrying they did something wrong. I am lucky in that I have several people I work with who have spent the better part of their lives inside and underneath Porsche's.
I took the concerns voiced here and said did I screw the pooch somehow on what I did. We walked out and looked at the car and the unified consensus was to go home and put her back on the lift, loosen the bolts and re-torque under load (actually add some load to you match the Porsche recommendations for weighting of the car).
So at lunch I did just that and this time I released the sway bar bushing fixture as well (turns out several folks on other forums had issues with binding of those bushings when set "not under load") I did torque those bushing while hanging...
After it was done and I had car on the ground I found that I had modified the height by only .250 in overall. So, got cleaned up and took the car back to work and called the guys out for a looksy. There were some grins as they expected the results I came back with...they just wanted to be sure I had not set the torque while hanging on the rack.
In short, they said since everything on the suspension is new, not just struts but all parts so I need to give the car some time to settle down and I will see the height come down. Porsche springs to sag over time (mind you we are talking years here on this) but the settling they were referring to as the bushings and other components. So in the end I am very happy with the handling as it is phenomenal and the money put in to her was well spent. I should have a couple hundred miles on her before she goes in for her alignment on Thursday and then I will update where I am at.