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Got around to putting the left front on tonight, only to be greeted by more arch gap than on my lowering springs! Wtf! If I preload the xxxx out. of them I can get it about 5mm lower... but I'm not having it set up like that. Am I doing something wrong or do they seriously only GP about 10mm lower than stock when you've got the preload set correctly? Are you just adjusting the damping and not the height?.. Back this collar off (upwards) and then rotate the bracket upwards to set the desired ride height. I wound the lower leg all the way up until it was as at up to the spring seat and it wouldn't go any higher, fitted it like that (that would be the optimal setting as the preload was about 5mm just to take the slack on the spring, and it sits higher than my lowering spring. Then, to see how low it would go, ie making more space to wind the leg up by winding the spring seat up to the top of the available thread (thus preloading the xxxx out of the springs). I then wound the leg up again from there and its still only about the same ride height as my spring the other side, AND that's with a preload you'd never drive with. There's physically no further adjustment 
Low enough for you? from MR2OC not sure of you can see them without being a memberWill_bmx wrote:I appreciate you guys helping but I'm not a retard and I am pretty mechanically and logically minded.lol.
If you've then further wound the preload collar up to allow even more movement, maybe as much as 5-6 inches? Either there's something wrong (bottom of the shock hitting someting (maybe the lower arm)) or your "lowering springs" have had a coil cut off of them. ? Maybe its since they. changee the lower leg design? The springs I had on were stiff as hell, defo not chopped. I previously had an arch gap of about, I duno Erm, 25mm before this? And it just won't go lower. I'm running a 16x7 wheel with 205 45 on it. The arb isn't even connected and I've moved the car around too just to see if it was the surface, but to no avail duff mount or something daft. Cheers for the help guys.(not driveable in that manner though due to excessive preload)./ Apex are being really helpful about this, although I'm unsure what other solution there could be."lowered" to a pretty standard amount. I expect fully adjustable suspension to go lower than that.
*that* low at all. Hmmm odd though because looking at the bottom photo of the hub/shock it should be way lower than that but everything looks (at least to me) to be ok..."bolt cuttered" off haha. (bad english) was fun to do! on the wrong end? Don't think you can get them the wrong way but I'm seriously scratching my head here!!(Kev is the gentleman I'm dealing with) and the following is occuring,(one for lower leg and the other for spring seat) as and just put one back under the lower leg to secure it. (this would be about 17-18mm extra drop) bare in mind the picture is with about 15mm extra over what it can really do. So with the lockrings out it should sit "slightly" lower than it is in that pic. (currently 150mm) complete with shorter dampers to see if this goes low enough. they are 1kg harder so there will be alittle less droop, however this should be low enough 
(prob around 18th may, or weekend after that date)(so much so I need to raise it slightly as it's rubbing and I want to be able to drive it hard), which the result I was after. If it's mounted on the outside it would blatently hit the arch and brake line! and if I mount it on the inside, well, I can't as it would be touching the spring!Will_bmx wrote:I feel like shooting myself.
BC have been very helpful and with the setup they have now provided I've been able to slam the front end too
What I then didn't also expect is after fitting the rear drop links and ARB;'s with no problems, for the fronts to physically have no space to fit to the mounting face on the strut.
What the hell?!
Any ideas other than making a small plate to mount to the drop link bracket with a lower mounting face?
Something is wrong obviously, what I can do is get my mates car and check his coilovers and compare them to yours via pics also I can check part no's etc against yours!!(the part that contains the arb bracket and hub mounting bracket is on upside down, so you either need to swap it over with the other front coilover or just remove it and re fit it up the other way. Ignore the stickers they could have been stuck on by the same muppet that fitted the coilovers together. I'm off to work now so wont be able to reply anymore today but I can see that they are upside down either that or I'm suffering from a serious hangover !!