Coilover Access Holes in Rear Cargo Area
 

... just curious if anyone has any pics of how they cut the interior rear wheel well pieces in order to be able to adjust coilovers. Giant holes, small holes, odd shaped holes ... matters not .... let's see some holes.:tup:

Check the premium member section..

Seriously though I've thought of doing this, just never had the balls to do it yet.

:iagree: I was hoping someone who tracks more often would have attempted this. I've debated on it, but just never had the time to measure out exactly where the holes would need to be drilled, and then some way to plug/cover them when I'm not tracking. Of course, best case scenario is when you're tracking, gut the trunk anyways for weight savings... :icon17:

Will do. I have balls, but sometimes that leads to stupidity and undesired results.

I am quite a ways off from tracking it. Down the road it will just get gutted, but the wife won't understand doing so now. And I would agree with her. On the other hand, having access to play with the coilover knob to learn a little while just street driving wouldn't hurt anything. The more I learn about how they behave before I do any HPDE or something else I figure can't hurt me. And being able to adjust them quickly would benefit me greatly. Mainly because I am lazy. I noticed a post just last night in WTB section looking for new rear panels because they "messed them up" trying to cut holes in them for access to the knobs. I don't want to go down that road.

You know it is early here, and it just dawned on me what you meant about the premium section. :icon18:

Hmmm... Must have tried to cut them outside the car, and the tool 'slipped'... :ugh2:

does the rear tower cavity have enough room for EDFC?

I've done it. If you search here you'll see some clean installs. Mine came out so-so. I basically guessed where it was, and I was close enough. I had to make the holes larger anyways so the BC ER Coilover adjustment attachment would have enough clearance. Basically marked the spot on some blue painter's tape, took a hand drill and made a hole, tested it out, took it off again and used a dremel with a bit to enlarge the hole little by little. I was left with an irregular looking hole, so to fix that I went to a hardware store and bought some black rubber washers. They cover up the hole perfectly.

For the cable, I cut it down to somewhere between 1" to 2", I can't remember exactly. The knob sits slightly above the rear plastic but works fine. I didn't want to leave a long cable just flopping around back there.

You can pick up edge trim in black that might fit around the rough edge of the hole that was cut. I used this stuff for other plastic parts on a previous car I had to cut. Cleaned up the edges very nicely. Tap Plastics is where I bought mine but this is an example (this company has black as well).

http://www.automobiletrim.com/images...ms/snlmini.jpg

The hole might be too small for that type of edging to bend enough. I'll try to take a picture if I have time tonight. The hole itself is probably just 3/4"

plenty of room for EDFC ... but I would guess no need to cut up the plastic pieces as you could route the wires underneath the plastic and up toward the cockpit.

3/4 ain't very big at all. i am not sure if I could fit my hand in a hole that small to twirl the knob around. unless you just did holes for extenders like on BC.

I wonder if the Tein EFDC would work on non-Tein coilovers ? Seems like all the adjustment knobs are the same size regardless of make, and they just clamp on there to turn it ... I wouldn't have to cut anything then, just hide the wires.

Some of the coilovers are available with flexible long knobs that might make things a bit easier.

Yeah, I have the BC ER with extenders, hence the 3/4" holes

You guys know I did this back in the day when HKS came out with their Hipermax III's

I eyed it and did it by hand :tup: perfect circles with a decent dremel.

damn that's looks pretty good. appears the holes are about dead center of that flat spot on top ....

Are you referring to these kind of holes?
http://i832.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/IMG_0264.jpg
http://i832.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/IMG_0265.jpg

Now that sir, is top notch, Grade A, spectacular godliness.

Baer, your damper knobs look great!

UAM- Did you have some sort of cover for the holes? They really detract from the rest of your hatch area.

fyi guys, Ksport and BC both have extensions.

Both great coilover choices ... but I am going to slap some Ark DT-P's on, so no extenders for me :tup:

Thanks:hello:

My coil overs are BC ER and what you seeing is the extension but trimmed to fit.

I think your way is fine if I found some sort of rubber/plastic plug with a pull tab on it ... pop it in and pop it out.

Damn, Baer, those look great. I tried doing that too but the part of the extensions that connect to the coilover itself, it would push up against the interior body panel, so i had to cut it out a little wider than that.

Yeah mine was very hard to turn so I took out the black sleeve and use the outer part of a black Bic pen which was a little smaller in dia. and kept trimming then lubed everything up before assembly ,now it turns smooth and easy.

Yeah I have a cover for the tops the problem we had is HKS didnt have extenders and I needed to be able to get my big hands in there to make adjustments.

I've seen people use the desk grommets (the 2-3" black plastic grommets for running cables through desks) before and it looked pretty good.
Plus, they come with covers/inserts, so it's clean when you aren't adjusting...