Just bought Fortune Auto 500 coilovers
10-10-2016, 10:35 PM
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Just bought Fortune Auto 500 coilovers
I couldn't resist such a good sale and jumped on the Fortune Auto 500 coilovers for my '13 G37 xS. I went with the Swift spring upgrade - 10k/8k, street valving, 8" rear spring, and adjustment extenders. I'm only going to lower the car about an inch on my oem "duck feet" wheels. Roads and winters here in South Jersey are too rough. I haven't bought any camber kits because I'm not totally sure it's necessary but will see what my installer says. I'm super excited so waiting a month for them to come in is gonna be rough. Anyway, I'll keep the board updated with pics and thoughts as things progress.
10-10-2016, 11:51 PM
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I couldn't resist such a good sale and jumped on the Fortune Auto 500 coilovers for my '13 G37 xS. I went with the Swift spring upgrade - 10k/8k, street valving, 8" rear spring, and adjustment extenders. I'm only going to lower the car about an inch on my oem "duck feet" wheels. Roads and winters here in South Jersey are too rough. I haven't bought any camber kits because I'm not totally sure it's necessary but will see what my installer says. I'm super excited so waiting a month for them to come in is gonna be rough. Anyway, I'll keep the board updated with pics and thoughts as things progress.
11-18-2016, 09:57 PM
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Finally an update. So far not so good. I opened the FA box with my installer and he immediately pointed out that the top hats did not have the adjustability on them as was in pictures. He said he could work around this and get it right for me. I should have known something was wrong when he had it all day and I had to call for updates and finally just now saw the car. The rear was sagging and measured 26 inches and change. The front driver side was stock height. The front passanger was 27 and a half inches which is about what I wanted.
So he took the car back and is going to order control arms because he said the camber was so bad it would destroy the tire. It sounds like FA messed up by sending the wrong non adjustable top hat. He's getting me a rental and will have the car until next week. FML today is my birthday too.
So he took the car back and is going to order control arms because he said the camber was so bad it would destroy the tire. It sounds like FA messed up by sending the wrong non adjustable top hat. He's getting me a rental and will have the car until next week. FML today is my birthday too.
11-18-2016, 10:50 PM
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Yikes I will have to let him know. I can't understand why he's having such a hard time. Sounds like he needs the control arms despite ppl on here saying it's not needed with only a 1 inch drop.
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11-18-2016, 11:13 PM
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It's a performance shop. He said toe is good but camber is 3 degrees off or something like that. I also have hotchkis sway bars if that makes a difference. I'm wondering if maybe I didn't really get the 8 inch rear springs. Ugh so frustrated. Any suggestions?
11-23-2016, 09:33 PM
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So here's the update. The shop owner finished the install. He said he was having so much trouble with the camber because I had the centric bolt from another car instead of the one that should be there?
Car drove like **** with severe rattling of the steering wheel and noises coming from the back. Turns out the "slip on spacers" he out on weren't hubcentric. I was wondering how those got out on for free... So after those got taken off the front the steering wheel vibration disappeared. The rattling from the back was bc of too little tension on some spring.
He also said he had to reassemble the coilovers because I had 10k in the front and 8k in the back which is backwards.
Car drove like **** with severe rattling of the steering wheel and noises coming from the back. Turns out the "slip on spacers" he out on weren't hubcentric. I was wondering how those got out on for free... So after those got taken off the front the steering wheel vibration disappeared. The rattling from the back was bc of too little tension on some spring.
He also said he had to reassemble the coilovers because I had 10k in the front and 8k in the back which is backwards.
11-23-2016, 09:53 PM
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So here's the update. The shop owner finished the install. He said he was having so much trouble with the camber because I had the centric bolt from another car instead of the one that should be there?
Car drove like **** with severe rattling of the steering wheel and noises coming from the back. Turns out the "slip on spacers" he out on weren't hubcentric. I was wondering how those got out on for free... So after those got taken off the front the steering wheel vibration disappeared. The rattling from the back was bc of too little tension on some spring.
He also said he had to reassemble the coilovers because I had 10k in the front and 8k in the back which is backwards.
Car drove like **** with severe rattling of the steering wheel and noises coming from the back. Turns out the "slip on spacers" he out on weren't hubcentric. I was wondering how those got out on for free... So after those got taken off the front the steering wheel vibration disappeared. The rattling from the back was bc of too little tension on some spring.
He also said he had to reassemble the coilovers because I had 10k in the front and 8k in the back which is backwards.
11-23-2016, 11:36 PM
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So here's the update. The shop owner finished the install. He said he was having so much trouble with the camber because I had the centric bolt from another car instead of the one that should be there?
Car drove like **** with severe rattling of the steering wheel and noises coming from the back. Turns out the "slip on spacers" he out on weren't hubcentric. I was wondering how those got out on for free... So after those got taken off the front the steering wheel vibration disappeared. The rattling from the back was bc of too little tension on some spring.
He also said he had to reassemble the coilovers because I had 10k in the front and 8k in the back which is backwards.
Car drove like **** with severe rattling of the steering wheel and noises coming from the back. Turns out the "slip on spacers" he out on weren't hubcentric. I was wondering how those got out on for free... So after those got taken off the front the steering wheel vibration disappeared. The rattling from the back was bc of too little tension on some spring.
He also said he had to reassemble the coilovers because I had 10k in the front and 8k in the back which is backwards.
This is one of the biggest fails ever. What kinda ship is this??