Xidas rubbing on FUCA! HELP!
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Bump stops come in different hardnesses and heights. Ride heights are adjustable too. So are springs and damping. You are buying an aftermarket off-road, race product. It will require you to tailor it to your particular needs. It probably works just fine on many cars the way it is.
The rubbing is a bad thing, but complaining about the bump stops is like plugging in a megasquirt and expecting it to be perfect with the base map.
The rubbing is a bad thing, but complaining about the bump stops is like plugging in a megasquirt and expecting it to be perfect with the base map.
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Bump stops come in different hardnesses and heights. Ride heights are adjustable too. So are springs and damping. You are buying an aftermarket off-road, race product. It will require you to tailor it to your particular needs. It probably works just fine on many cars the way it is.
The rubbing is a bad thing, but complaining about the bump stops is like plugging in a megasquirt and expecting it to be perfect with the base map.
The rubbing is a bad thing, but complaining about the bump stops is like plugging in a megasquirt and expecting it to be perfect with the base map.
The amount of rubbing here may not be a bad thing and may be working as intended, but George is not outside the realm that the supplied bumpstops would still be expected to work properly. No work/tailoring should be necessary.
#26
^ that. You cannot adjust shock body height with xidas. So they should have hit the bump stop way earlier/had a stiffer bump stop. There is only preload adjustment, so if you are in the area of a race/performance ride height, you will be in the bump stops a lot. There is nothing I can do except go up in spring rate to keep me off the bump stops. They just should have been made so that the "hard limit" (max compression) is just before tire contact. Simple as that.
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Making a car faster is always a process of experimentation. We did that, engineered Xida Race from scratch. Nothing in that assembly is an oversight or accident.
You need stiffer springs. I'd suggest 1100/500.
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Every car is slightly different. A big of tire polishing your shock tower isn't bad. You are working with the tolerances of a "race car", not a street car.
You should always test the full travel of your wheel without bumpstops when making suspension changes.
There are a variety of factors that affect clearances when setting up a shock. Camber, ride height, ELBJ, which control arms, age of bushings. When working with something at the limit then you can't always build a "plug and play" product.
A xida is not much different in this area than any other shock body designed for a 2.25" spring. Any ohlin would do it, a Feal or a Fox might be worse due to 2.5" springs.
In the end it is up to the car builder to make sure that everything clears and functions correctly, not the vendor of a shock.
You should always test the full travel of your wheel without bumpstops when making suspension changes.
There are a variety of factors that affect clearances when setting up a shock. Camber, ride height, ELBJ, which control arms, age of bushings. When working with something at the limit then you can't always build a "plug and play" product.
A xida is not much different in this area than any other shock body designed for a 2.25" spring. Any ohlin would do it, a Feal or a Fox might be worse due to 2.5" springs.
In the end it is up to the car builder to make sure that everything clears and functions correctly, not the vendor of a shock.
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He's running non-stock wheels and non stock tire size on a non stock suspension alignment, using full custom lower ball joints, and is complaining that his non-stock parts don't all fit together without touching anything like stock.
Yeah, it's Emilio's fault. Hahaha!
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yes, race version
If the tire is rubbing n the shock tower that IS bad. Race car, street car, it doesnt matter.
There is no documentation saying that there might be an issue with contact between the shock body and other parts. Expecting hundreds or thousands of customers to do a stoke pass is not reasonable.
Spring size has nothing to do with this
Exept when the vendor is tailoring the shock to work with your specific chassis, and gives you no shock body height adjustment. That just puts the customer in between a rock and a hard place.
4.5 font, 4.75 rear.
You should always test the full travel of your wheel without bumpstops when making suspension changes.
There are a variety of factors that affect clearances when setting up a shock. Camber, ride height, ELBJ, which control arms, age of bushings. When working with something at the limit then you can't always build a "plug and play" product.
There are a variety of factors that affect clearances when setting up a shock. Camber, ride height, ELBJ, which control arms, age of bushings. When working with something at the limit then you can't always build a "plug and play" product.
4.5 font, 4.75 rear.