So many shock lengths to choose from! Today we're going to talk about sizing
your car for QA1 shocks! Hi I'm Steve at QA1 and today I'm with Trevor from the
tech department we're gonna talk about measuring up your vehicle for QA1 shocks
even if you don't see it in the catalog so thanks for being here today Trevor.
What's the first thing that we want to know about a shock that we're looking to
fit to a custom application. Yeah the main thing we need to know Steve is the
mounting style of the shock. We've got a few varieties here; eyelet style, might
have a stud top, or a t-bar mount. So it's important to know whether you have
an eyelet or t-bar also on the eyelets there's different mounting bolts for
lots of different vehicles different sizes of mounting bolts and do we have a
solution for that as well? Yeah we've got a large variety of different sleeves
different bushings basically covering all the most common sizes of mounting
hardware there. So we've got sleeves that reduce down to half-inch 7/16 just about
all of them. Exactly. So once we once we know our connection types and our
mounting bolt sizes what's the first thing we want to do before we start
measuring? Yeah before we start measuring it's very critical to get the vehicle
positioned in the ride height that it will be set at as it's going down the
road. So it might have leaf springs on or coil springs on what it rests on those
springs get the vehicle set at its ride height. And you should have all of
the weight on the car at that point but if you're halfway into a build and you
want to start sizing up your shocks you can also have the car up in
the air and put the wheel and tire jacket up to where you visually would
want to see it right? And then start measuring from there? That's correct.
Yep the main thing there is just having the vehicle ai its ride height. Nice so on
say for instance this shock; an eyelet eyelet style shock how would we measure
that the ride height? Yeah so the eyelet to
eyelet style is the simplest. Simply at ride height like we said from the center line
of the lower mount to the center line of the upper eyelet those will be the the
measurement we need. Yeah and that's and that's how we would
measure it for either the non-coil-over shocks as well as the coil-over so
whichever you're putting on your car or needing that's how you would
measure that eyelet eyelet. Now even if you don't have a shock in the car you
could just measure the mounting bolts right? Exactly. Yeah. Exactly.
So then we go to our stud style this one's got a stud on top and there's a
couple different ways I've had customers measure a stud top but where are all of
our shocks lengthwise measured to on a stud style shock? Yeah on the stud style
top shock ideally we want to get the bottom side of the washer here and then
to the center line of our lower mount again. Over on the eyelet we did the
center to center on the eyelet. Over here we go center the eyelet up to the lower
washer and then also we've got a t-bar on this shock now we've got a couple
different size t-bars would we need to know that information as well? Yeah
ideally we would also know the bolt spacing between the two lower mounts and
that would help us make a determination on the best t-bar to fit your needs. And
again this is for Stocker Star non-coil-over shocks as well as our custom mount
coil-over shocks. I mean you can it can size up our QA1 shocks for just about
anything. Are there some applications where maybe
that's gonna be a little bit more difficult? Yeah be more of a challenge on
a spindle mounted strut or a clevis style more the unique shocks like that.
A lot of import applications have that clevis style. Yeah that's gonna be a
little more of a challenge. Great so I mean that is that easy huh? It really is.
Wow. So that's how you'd measure for custom
QA1 shocks on your application if you don't see it in the catalog if you have
any questions about your measurements or want to run them by us all of our charts
are on our website with our different shock lengths the recommended ride
height and so real easy to figure out. If you want to give us a call to tech line
that's great or you can check all that out at QA1.net and we appreciate you
stopping by to watch.