My fronts are 600. I know how I want it to ride, and am thinking with the way the rates are now, it'll be too soft. They want the shocks back and did say those rates are good with the measurements I sent in.


I did talk to Ron once (what a great guy!) about the issues...he requested a bunch of info including vehicle weight before making any suggestions. It took me almost 2 months to get the car weighed, so now I have everything he has asked for. I'll forward that all to him hopefully later today.

Not sure what the shock issue is. When I first got them and put the front on, the adjustment knob was impossible to turn by hand. I emailed tech support and Britt responded saying to just go ahead and crank the hell out of them as they are very robust. A pair of pliers did the trick, but apparently there was more wrong than just them being initially stuck.

Thanks for the compliment!

That was without me in it. The battery is in that corner and I'm running the Corvette accessory drive with no AC yet. That put's the alternator and steering pump there as well. That, along with the gear box, makes for that being the heaviest corner by far.

The car is not sitting perfectly level, so I'm sure the numbers are off.

Definitely not a cheap part, the single most expensive part I've bought for my car at this point. Didn't go with the nose, since I will drive the car and wanted an actual bumper. I might do a track nose later.

I was wondering about the LF corner myself. It does seem really skewed, but then again I've never had any cars on scales yet so I have no reference. A battery is probably 30 lbs, a/c compressor maybe 20 lbs, steering box maybe 35 lbs... so I think 85 lbs max to the LF. RF would have some a/c box weight too, but that might be balanced by the column and master cylinder on the LH side. It would be interesting to see what the scale weights are on another 2nd gen F-body.

So Ridetech had me move the rear blocks up like you have pictured MtotheIKEo. Mine was like what Jay posted in his pic and that's also how the instructions show to install them. This definitely will gain move the body up by about an inch.

They have also bumped the front up to 650 lb springs. I've got a few other things going on so I won't be able to tell what kind of difference anything has made for a little while.

I also noticed a 2 of the bolts for the 4 link have loosened. The same two on each side as a matter of fact. They go through the thin sheet metal frame rail. It is not welded, but I may have to look into that if I can't figure another way to keep them tight.

Despite the crappy weather....I was able to put the car back down and take a very short ride...the car is sitting much better now. The revised rate of the front springs and moving the blocks up have raised the car a bit to where I think will be good for the driving I do. I can't tell what has changed in the ride quality just yet, but will hopefully get to after getting the stance finalized and an alignment.

Glad to hear the good news!