cheer for the advise it only seems like two people have the gaz coil over on at moment

My OSRAVS will finally be fitted tomorow. I will let everybody know how they get on, i put the rears at 6 turns from soft! (or 5, i will have to check).

Mine arrived this week and I'm booked in with MotorMech a week on Monday.
Paul is also fitting new wishbones,topmounts etc to bring everything up to tip top condition.
The camber bolts from the group buy will also go on (With out too much camber).
My only disappointment is that the whiteline 22mm rear arb is out of stock at Balance Motor sport.
Still I can wait a few weeks and fitting them separetly will let me see what the arb adds on top of the improvement of the Osravs.


Watch this space !!

Mine have been put on the car today! Because of a boost leak @ my FMIC i havent really driven the car hard, but for now it feels fine. Its on Eibachs, which are a bit stiff but not too much. Just have to slow down a bit for speedbumps ofcourse, but thats all.

Setup:
Fronts are half way
Rears on 6 clicks from soft.

Feels real good!

OK,Measured the height ,from the ground, to the underneath of the end of the sill nearest each wheel.
This is on standard springs and shocks (70k).
Cold tyres with book preasures.

FRONT N/S 180mm ....O/S 175mm

REAR N/S 197mm ....O/S 205mm

Osravs go on Monday so I'll cheak if the ride hight is altered.

So I've received my Osravs today and I must say that the package sucks!!!

They came all in one little box and they all rubbed on it's way home. I ended up with the 2 fronts lacking serious spots of paint because of that!

I know that they are going under the car and nobody will put an eye on them after that, but nonetheless I consider this to be a major fault from Osrav.

Did anyone here experienced something similar?

PS - Maybe off topic but I'm swapping them for my like new set of Billies (about 2000 miles). If anyone's interested...

It's going back a few years but yes they came in one box, however, the box had the dampers seperated by cardboard compartments.

A bit of touch up paint should keep the corrosion away and you'll enjoy them once they are fitted.

Same here Nelson - mine were damaged as wel. I used some hammerite paint to keep corrosion away.

I must say people, that the various set-ups here on the forum are probably experienced very different by others. Something that saint calls "Way too soft" i will call nice and comfortable for a daily ride. When driving on the motorway with say 80 mph, and you meet a nice small bump in the road, my passengers on the rear bench hit their head on the ceiling (and one on the window...)

Thanks for the input guys.

About settings... Of course it's a bit difficult to really say that they have 20 or 30 clicks because they just don't click!

Anyway, the rears (when the center hole - one of the 3 visible ones - is facing you), can be moved 28 times anticlockwise from soft, so I'm going to set them at 5 from that just to start with, and hoping to kill some lift off oversteer with that (one thing that many mates aren't really complaining about, instead of understeer which seems the major concern among owners).

I'm complementing the Osravs with front and rear Eibach ARBs and camber bolts. Already have powerflex bushes and strut. So let's see the difference...

The fronts can be easily adjusted. Anyway... I find them somewhat easy to compress with my bare hands at fully hard. It's just me?

Having now driven with the Eibach/Osrav setup for a few months and couple of thou miles, I am very pleased with the products and also the setings I chose.
I am so glad we set the rears at fully soft (fronts harder though) as its still sporty hard but bearable over dips (I previously experienced the phenonomenon Martyn mentioned of passengers (& me!) hitting the roof!).
10/10 for fast road use.

addict... are the rears at the softest setting still capable of controlling the Eibach spring?

I ask this because I'm also on Eibach springs and they are stiffer than OE ones, and this is probably why the coop suffers from bouncing (stiff springs and under damp/rebound dampers, or so I think!...).

You can't reproduce the load a moving car will put on the damper so you will always be able to push them closed easily, it's when they are travelling very quickly that the damper starts working.

I tried on the softest setting and just hit the bump stops all the time

I'm sure they come preset for 'fast road' settings but check that on your dampers. Just count how many turns it takes to adjust them so you can put them back.

Thanks Jimbo,

I'm going to start at 5 from softest. The annoying thing is that you have to dismantle the rears for adjustment. So let's hope 5 will be fine for my needs.

We bought a Spax kit (shocks and springs), for my wife's Ford Puma (which are being fitted now), and the rears are so much easier to adjust

I run the rear at the softest setting, and just 2 turns back (unchanged since I posted a while back). Bumpstops no problem, they were replaced prior though. As I said the feel and performance is 100% now, and me coming from a modified 911 turbo too, so that is praise indeed

By 2 turns you mean shifting one hole to the side 2 times?

When you are facing the small cylindrical insert in the rear shock, the one with the holes you put the allen key to turn it, you can manage to see 3 holes in it.

When I say 5 from softest I mean I face the center hole and turn it anticlockwise until the key hit the shock (this is a turn of about 4 or 5mm), and do this 5 times.

Doing that, the insert can be rotated 28 times until fully hard.

Are we using the same measurement unit here?

I have no idea. My garage said 2 turns out of 22 top to bottom. Either way I suggest all the way soft then 10% back. Any harder and I think you will 'hit your head'!
Good luck.