Hello! Sorry if I'm screwing up, I'm brand new.
TL;DR:
Put brand new Cayman R suspension on my 987.1. Took it to the track and now front left is riding half an inch lower than front right. These aren't adjustable coilovers and ride height before track was equal on left/right.
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So, I bought a 987.1 Cayman S in July of last year with the intention of using it as my first track car. Previous owner had some lowering springs on it that I didn't like (and I wanted to slowly build it up on my own after track days). Plan was to replace all the control arms, shocks, springs with all stock components to make it feel as "new" as possible (had some squeeks, rattles, etc, so I loaded and fired the parts cannon. No more squeeks, rattles or money!). Decided to go with the Cayman R retrofit springs from Suncoast because finding a new OEM setup was proving difficult.
I install all this stuff about a month ago, got an alignment at Porsche, and put maybe 300-400 miles on the car before going to the track. I've never done any work like this before but the car was feeling awesome!
I attended my first track day on Friday the 6th (PCA event at Blackhawk Farms in Illinois). It was raining the whole time, had a blast.
Today I finally got the car out of the garage to wash the track day off of it and noticed the front left is about half an inch lower than the front right (measuring from ground to fender up the center of the wheel. Gap between top of wheel and fender is also clearly tighter). A few days after doing the work I had measured the height and both rears matched and both fronts matched, so I know this is a post-track thing (the rears are still identical). Blackhawk is primarily a right-hand turn track, I don't know if this actually matters in a practical sense, but I feel like it's worth mentioning. I've been told suspensions can sag a bit after installing them, but doing some research it sounds like this isn't really all that common and even if it was, half an inch seems like too much either way.
Thoughts? Should I take it out and try to do some hard right handers and see if it evens out (this is mostly a joke)? What could I have screwed up during the install to cause this to happen? Or is this just a normal thing that will work itself out over time and I'm just over-thinking it?
TL;DR:
Put brand new Cayman R suspension on my 987.1. Took it to the track and now front left is riding half an inch lower than front right. These aren't adjustable coilovers and ride height before track was equal on left/right.
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So, I bought a 987.1 Cayman S in July of last year with the intention of using it as my first track car. Previous owner had some lowering springs on it that I didn't like (and I wanted to slowly build it up on my own after track days). Plan was to replace all the control arms, shocks, springs with all stock components to make it feel as "new" as possible (had some squeeks, rattles, etc, so I loaded and fired the parts cannon. No more squeeks, rattles or money!). Decided to go with the Cayman R retrofit springs from Suncoast because finding a new OEM setup was proving difficult.
I install all this stuff about a month ago, got an alignment at Porsche, and put maybe 300-400 miles on the car before going to the track. I've never done any work like this before but the car was feeling awesome!
I attended my first track day on Friday the 6th (PCA event at Blackhawk Farms in Illinois). It was raining the whole time, had a blast.
Today I finally got the car out of the garage to wash the track day off of it and noticed the front left is about half an inch lower than the front right (measuring from ground to fender up the center of the wheel. Gap between top of wheel and fender is also clearly tighter). A few days after doing the work I had measured the height and both rears matched and both fronts matched, so I know this is a post-track thing (the rears are still identical). Blackhawk is primarily a right-hand turn track, I don't know if this actually matters in a practical sense, but I feel like it's worth mentioning. I've been told suspensions can sag a bit after installing them, but doing some research it sounds like this isn't really all that common and even if it was, half an inch seems like too much either way.
Thoughts? Should I take it out and try to do some hard right handers and see if it evens out (this is mostly a joke)? What could I have screwed up during the install to cause this to happen? Or is this just a normal thing that will work itself out over time and I'm just over-thinking it?