There are a lot of coilovers on the market for the AE86, but most of them are old technology. With us pulling out all the stops on Project AE86, we wanted to take advantage of modern technology and develop some really outstanding shocks for our car. We asked Motion Control Suspension (MCS) for help with this endeavor, and they said no problem!
We spent some time measuring our car to come up with the best body length and wheel travel, and worked with MCS to come up with what we determined to be the best body length. Since we are correcting the geometry in a super low car with our parts from T3, we were able to really shorten the shock bodies to get the car low while still maintaining good bump and droop travel. Our bodies are going to be short so we can get the most wheel travel with a low ride height.
We had MCS build 1.5 degrees of negative camber into our strut tube so we would not have to run a really steep kingpin inclination angle to get the negative camber we will end up running, which will probably be in the 3-4 degree range depending on tires. This will reduce contact patch wheel tilt and enable us to set the scrub radius where we want.
