underst8

Tein S Tech Owners -

I purchased a set of used S techs and am installing them this weekend. I need to know how much (if at all) to cut the bump stops.

I do not have the chart Tein provides showing how to cut them for the 2g CL. Anyone who's installed them on the 2g or has the chart listing the 2g parameters, could you please let me know how much to take off?

Time to get this biatch lowered!

Nov!ce

Why are you cutting them?

DLntheCL

you always cut bumpstops when putting on lowering springs. when you buy lowering springs it even says so in the directions in the box. because you decarese strut travel when you lower the car, by cutting the bumstop it helps compensate and give you a little better of a ride so your not bottoming out all the time. its been about 4 years since i last did it i think i cut about half of it off, this was on a maxima though

Nov!ce

^ Thanks for the info. I've never changed out my own suspension. That has me wondering if the shop I took my car to didn't cut the bump stops and that's the reason why it's squeaking when I go over bumps.

underst8

the squeaking is also a result of it being lowered - from the springs, not the bump stops. Your springs probably don't have rubber material between some of the coils and so when they touch they squeak. You can usually buy them and put them on the coils.

sinfulj32

leave the fattest chunk of the bumpstop and cut the rest.

underst8

Does that risk the shock bottoming out?

DLntheCL

you have a better chance of bottoming out if you dont cut the bumpstop, just be sure to get some good struts and you should be fine, ex tokico blues i bottomed out all the time, switched to kyb agx i dont think i bottomed out once

underst8

I'm gonna be running bilsteins.

I got an email back from a guy at one of the recommended bilstein resellers, and he told me to leave the rears un-cut because the bilstein shocks for the CL are designed to work with them as is, and to remove the front ones completely because the front bilsteins have internal bump stops.

Does this sound right to you guys? I am thinking I will take a couple rings off the back and ditch the front completely? What do you think

underst8

Car is Low

There would be pics, but there are 7 inches of snow on the ground - it was a plowing kind of night.

turbo_911

7 INCHES? wow,

here in PA it just started to snow at 12am, so we've got only like 1 inch so far, maybe little less.

but i wanna see your pics how it would look, before i put on mines too... can't wait