After putting another 250 miles on Lupa, I felt it was time to adjust the ride height before getting the alignment done. With the temps a very comfortable 60F in February, I took a nice relaxing drive up the Taconic to see Rad so we could make quick work out of making the changes. The front was definitely a bit too low causing some rubbing on relatively mild bumps and the rear too high. Actually, I'd say it was closer to stock height in the rear.
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| Adjusting the ride height - 2/28/2016 |
I'm a strong believer that the Honda designers for the S2000 got the suspension geometry perfect and from my own experience, having an excessively low ride without shortened dampers wasn't going to make the car handle better. As a happy compromise between lower center of gravity while giving enough travel to let the shocks do work, an even more important fact now that the Motons are revalved softer, my goal was to keep the drop to about 1" from stock height. For today this meant dropping the rear about 1" and raising the front about half an inch. With these freshly maintained and oiled shock bodies, this took no time at all and we measured the ride height from top of fender to ground to be:
Front: 25 3/8"
Rear: 25 3/16"
The goal wasn't to get it perfectly even but rather to get it close to target ride height before the alignment since I'll probably get her corner balanced mid-season and that'll change the ride height again anyway. For now at least the rake will be more ideal once I put on the square 255 setup again.
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| 2016 racing season ride height - 2/28/2016 |
