What are you expecting to feel?john-e89 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:16 pmI'd thought you might be able to feel the adjustments on the road, but I've never used adjustable ones tbh.Ed Doe wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:32 amOh christ, and I can well imagine that would make a difference to the handling dynamic of a car never driven on track. Come on mate I totally understand why adjustable droplinks are useful, but if the op isn't corner weighting the car, or racking the car, it's not exactly any use is it?Slideways wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:33 am When installing adjustable suspension, one should plan on corner balancing and dialing out sway bar preload; otherwise, the suspension modifications will be suboptimal. If it were not for the shorter KW endlinks, one adjustable endlink would be enough to dial out preload.
If you corner weight the car, you'll find the suspension may be a slightly different height across the axle. By using adjustable droplinks (or by buying coilovers with adjustable droplink mounting points like intrax for instance), you will effectively then be able to dial out any consequential pre-load on the arb. Will the preload be minimal? Yes. Will you feel that on the road? Very unlikely (imo).
It's just my opinion, for sure do what you feel is right for you, but honestly I would say adjustable droplinks are a waste of time and money unless you're tracking the car and therefore fully corner weighting it after fitting the suspension. If you're just lowering the car a bit and wanting the ride height to be visually equal across the axle then I'd not worry at all.
Just touching on your point regarding droplink length, if you drop the ride height you're effectively lowering the chassis relative to the mounting point on the damper. So the angle between the droplink and the arb will change, and this will affect the effective 'spring rate' of the arb. By reducing the length of the droplink, you bring the arb angle relative to the droplink back to the oe angle, so the rate becomes the same as oe again. Ultimately this is stuff that matters if you're chasing tenths on track - I honestly wouldn't worry a jot for road use.