06-09-2017, 12:07 AM
The thing is I did not know until after everything had happened... This is the first time with these type of dampers and I thought things would bolt up and not be confusing. Those pieces that fit in the spherical bottom mount on the rear are the exact same piece that goes on the front damper adjustment piston for spacing. They are the same part nothing is different... It's not even used like it was on the fronts. I first put them on the rear piston like the fronts and that's not where it went because no spherical top mount. Why would we think it would be able to fit a lower rear bolt? I did not know the NC rear had the spacing issue at all either.
Some of you are like omg duh how could this guy not know this stuff. Lol. It seems obvious now after I say things but it isn't during the time.
Let's put it this way. No forum posts about NC MCS, no guidance, no instructions, no diagrams, no nothing. If you can somehow figure something out first try, get everything together properly without anything, while having no experience with any high end dampers before then you just must be a God.
Anyways, I'm going to try and run double OE sized washer spacing. Maybe 3 once a guy gets back to me on the Miata forums. I do not want to run too little area on the nipple.
I'm sitting at 7/8" with the two OE nipple washers and MCS spacer between the hub and damper body.
Each washer is 1/8" and the MCS spacer is 5/8".
Leaves about 5-6/16" on the nipple left.
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It starts to rub over 1/2 probably close to 2/3 of the way through compression. So much better than before but not perfect. So I'll need to buy longer OE bolts. I think 3 OE sized washers would be perfect but I'm worried about losing another 1/8" and leaving only like 4-5/16" of the force to be spread across. One guy is running a lot of spacing on his Ohlins because he went from the tapered springs they come with to straight 2.5" ID Springs like me. He has 3 track seasons so I'm trying to see if he can tell me how much spacing he is running. My guess is 2-3 OE washer region judging by his picture.
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Regardless new bolts will be purchased on Belmetric and I'll find some washers from a local hardware store. Can't find fully threaded m12x1.25 locally that's either 40 or 45mm in a class 10.9 like I need.
Some of you are like omg duh how could this guy not know this stuff. Lol. It seems obvious now after I say things but it isn't during the time.
Let's put it this way. No forum posts about NC MCS, no guidance, no instructions, no diagrams, no nothing. If you can somehow figure something out first try, get everything together properly without anything, while having no experience with any high end dampers before then you just must be a God.
Anyways, I'm going to try and run double OE sized washer spacing. Maybe 3 once a guy gets back to me on the Miata forums. I do not want to run too little area on the nipple.
I'm sitting at 7/8" with the two OE nipple washers and MCS spacer between the hub and damper body.
Each washer is 1/8" and the MCS spacer is 5/8".
Leaves about 5-6/16" on the nipple left.
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It starts to rub over 1/2 probably close to 2/3 of the way through compression. So much better than before but not perfect. So I'll need to buy longer OE bolts. I think 3 OE sized washers would be perfect but I'm worried about losing another 1/8" and leaving only like 4-5/16" of the force to be spread across. One guy is running a lot of spacing on his Ohlins because he went from the tapered springs they come with to straight 2.5" ID Springs like me. He has 3 track seasons so I'm trying to see if he can tell me how much spacing he is running. My guess is 2-3 OE washer region judging by his picture.
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Regardless new bolts will be purchased on Belmetric and I'll find some washers from a local hardware store. Can't find fully threaded m12x1.25 locally that's either 40 or 45mm in a class 10.9 like I need.