Calling all owners of Meister R coilovers!

 

Mine are being fitted on Thursday and I haven't gone for the extension cables for the rear units as I don't really want to be drilling holes in my Shortie's panels.

 

So my question is: what damper setting have people found is the best for the rears? Ideally, I'm looking for the best compromise between comfort and performance. :)

 

Cheers!

Calling all owners of Meister R coilovers!

 

Mine are being fitted on Thursday and I haven't gone for the extension cables for the rear units as I don't really want to be drilling holes in my Shortie's panels.

 

So my question is: what damper setting have people found is the best for the rears? Ideally, I'm looking for the best compromise between comfort and performance. :)

 

Cheers!

I have holes in my boot liner because I found it took a lot of experimenting to get it right. I change mine all the time +/- 1 or 2 clicks.

 

They are broadly set something like

stiff -15 clicks front

stiff -10 clicks rear

 

If you set them in the middle 15/30 you will be able to tune the front to make it ride nicely. Pre-load and length make a big difference too.

 

Go for the middle on damping, it's a great feeling messing with your settings then having the car behave just how you want it to. :clover:

I have holes in my boot liner because I found it took a lot of experimenting to get it right. I change mine all the time +/- 1 or 2 clicks.

 

They are broadly set something like

stiff -15 clicks front

stiff -10 clicks rear

 

If you set them in the middle 15/30 you will be able to tune the front to make it ride nicely. Pre-load and length make a big difference too.

 

Go for the middle on damping, it's a great feeling messing with your settings then having the car behave just how you want it to. :clover:

Being a shorty it will probably be more sensitive to changes, with less of a lever I imagine the settings will be closer together, you get coilovers specific to the swb don't you? Perhaps go a bit softer with the car being lighter.

Being a shorty it will probably be more sensitive to changes, with less of a lever I imagine the settings will be closer together, you get coilovers specific to the swb don't you? Perhaps go a bit softer with the car being lighter.

Meister no longer supply specific units for the SWB, Tom. But I believe you can still buy the springs if needed.

 

That said, this car's only ever going to see road use so I might just leave the panels off til everything settles, then experiment with the damper settings from there :)

Meister no longer supply specific units for the SWB, Tom. But I believe you can still buy the springs if needed.

 

That said, this car's only ever going to see road use so I might just leave the panels off til everything settles, then experiment with the damper settings from there :)

On the limit daft driving aside for a minute, if it is really stiff or really soft it doesn't feel that uncomfortable, if you have it too stiff at one end however, it feels awful. You get like a high frequency jiggle as either the nose or tail over damps a bump. If the back is too firm I feel it in the small of my back as an unpleasant jiggle. With your ARBs, you can get firm cornering without setting the coilovers to the shopping trolley end of their adjustment. Enjoy the shorty Si :D

On the limit daft driving aside for a minute, if it is really stiff or really soft it doesn't feel that uncomfortable, if you have it too stiff at one end however, it feels awful. You get like a high frequency jiggle as either the nose or tail over damps a bump. If the back is too firm I feel it in the small of my back as an unpleasant jiggle. With your ARBs, you can get firm cornering without setting the coilovers to the shopping trolley end of their adjustment. Enjoy the shorty Si :D

Cheers Tom :)

 

There's only an uprated front ARB at this point - I may do the back end one day, but not just yet.

Cheers Tom :)

 

There's only an uprated front ARB at this point - I may do the back end one day, but not just yet.

I've only drove mine with the meister r a few times and i need to try a few adjustments cause i think mine are in the middle somewhere front and rear and it is really horrible it use to be really nice i had new stock shocks front and rear and it handled great and was actually quite smooth and refined,

But now its crashy and to stiff,

We have a new bridge where i live and when i go over it there's a dip at the start and at the end of the bridge and the car trys to throw me out the roof lol...

Same if i go over big speed ramps its mainly the rear it throws me out the bloody seat...

But when it is flat it handles great and being lower it looks great,

But i look a mile ahead incase there's bumps lol for fear of being thrown out the bloody targas...

So im going to be nosey on your thread see if this is normal or if mine are set up wrong,

I'd like to know how they set the spring rate, or if it would be better to wind them up so the spring doesn't rattle about,

Mine are set has they come, so don't want to ruin them by messing with them...

I've only drove mine with the meister r a few times and i need to try a few adjustments cause i think mine are in the middle somewhere front and rear and it is really horrible it use to be really nice i had new stock shocks front and rear and it handled great and was actually quite smooth and refined,

But now its crashy and to stiff,

We have a new bridge where i live and when i go over it there's a dip at the start and at the end of the bridge and the car trys to throw me out the roof lol...

Same if i go over big speed ramps its mainly the rear it throws me out the bloody seat...

But when it is flat it handles great and being lower it looks great,

But i look a mile ahead incase there's bumps lol for fear of being thrown out the bloody targas...

So im going to be nosey on your thread see if this is normal or if mine are set up wrong,

I'd like to know how they set the spring rate, or if it would be better to wind them up so the spring doesn't rattle about,

Mine are set has they come, so don't want to ruin them by messing with them...

When I got my car Terry it was dangerously hard, I had snap oversteer so quickly wet and dry. I gave it to Jeff at Zedworld tk look at and he said all 4 corners were different pre loads, heights and damping settings. He set my pre load and height and I set the damping.

 

When i got 18 inch wheels I had to raise the ride to stop them catching the arches and with that had to change the damping a lot too. But I have never changed my pre load, so Jeff is your man it seems for that because it is lovely.

 

Mine is quite tall at the rear and small adjustments mad a big difference to the feeling of the car's pivot point. Tipping it further and further forwards at one point I was driving a capri again!

 

All of these changes make things like tyre side wall height and pressure more sensitive.

When I got my car Terry it was dangerously hard, I had snap oversteer so quickly wet and dry. I gave it to Jeff at Zedworld tk look at and he said all 4 corners were different pre loads, heights and damping settings. He set my pre load and height and I set the damping.

 

When i got 18 inch wheels I had to raise the ride to stop them catching the arches and with that had to change the damping a lot too. But I have never changed my pre load, so Jeff is your man it seems for that because it is lovely.

 

Mine is quite tall at the rear and small adjustments mad a big difference to the feeling of the car's pivot point. Tipping it further and further forwards at one point I was driving a capri again!

 

All of these changes make things like tyre side wall height and pressure more sensitive.

If you go to the Meister R website you can see a video of how to set the preload, I think.

If you go to the Meister R website you can see a video of how to set the preload, I think.

My advice - do go for the extension cables and drill your rear boot panels. You can make them look tidy if you are worried by the appearance - but if you don't have the extension cables, you won't be able to experiment with different settings; or real the benefits of the suspension being adjustable!

 

Richard:cool:

My advice - do go for the extension cables and drill your rear boot panels. You can make them look tidy if you are worried by the appearance - but if you don't have the extension cables, you won't be able to experiment with different settings; or real the benefits of the suspension being adjustable!

 

Richard:cool:

 

Have you got a picture of what yours looks like Richard?

I would drill a hole and bring the adjuster through It's only 5 or 6 mm you need and you can tuck the adjuster cable under the boot cover frame

 

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Have you got a picture of what yours looks like Richard?

 

I might have, somewhere, mate - but TBH it's not the tidiest job...... I always intended to stick a large washer over the hole to make it look neater, but just did not get around to it...:oops:

This is how mine looked with extensions when I fitted them .

 

 

Hope that helps, Daffy.

 

 

You can also get black adjusters:

:sad: Daffy you have put me to shame, mine look like Jeremy Clarkson did it. On the long list of things to sort out I have just added "sort out the horrendous hacked up mess that is your boot lining Tom you scruffy pup" :lol:

They look really neat, not like I was expecting at all :thumbup1: