Does anyone make an adjustable shock. One that can be adjusted in the rear without cutting a hole in the unibody, for the first gen MINI S. Im not talking about coil overs, but just shocks?

 

Nope as far as I know. Just coilovers the few examples that are inverted so the adjustment is at the bottom of the shock body of the coilover are PSS9's, PSS10, M7.

 

Koni yellows are adjustable, just not easily.

 

He is looking for shocks that you don't have to drill for the adjustment in the rear like for the koni's. Which I have found none that are inverted.

 

Someone needs to make them!!

 

I have the Yellows and drilled 5/8" holes in the rails. Not the massive +2" holes they are doing with the BC COs. I did this after several months of autocrossing, where I was taking the rears off the day before to adjust them to full stiff, and then again after to soften them back up. Before autocrossing I never had to adjust them, so it wasn't a problem. The small hole wasn't much trouble. The hardest part was putting the side panels back on. They can be a bit of a pain when aligning the clips. I use a deep well 5mm socket with a 1/4" thumbdrive to adjust them.

 

Do you have the HK amp to deal with? So you have to take off the side covers everytime to make an adjustment?

 

No HK here, I can get to them easy. Here a couple of pics:







I thought you might need to remove the HK so it doesn't get messed up, but not to get to the adjustment. Take a look through the cubby and see how it looks.

 

make adjustable coil overs. Adjustable rebound and or damping without hieght is very, very rare.

FWIW, Ledas are bottom adjustable. Just lay down, find the **** and turn. But they're coil overs as well.

Matt

 

I would like to go simple. A set of H-sport one inch lower springs, adjustable shocks (Tokico Illuminas would be nice, if they were adjustable from the bottom), Ireland fixed camber plates, H-sport comp rear bar and control arms. It's the setup I have used on all my other cars and it has worked well for me.

 

I wonder why they can't drill small holes for the BC Coilovers? Why can't they make the hole just big enough to get the cable through the hole and not the massive 2" hole? Then just let the cable stick out of the hole a couple inches.

 

Main reason is that the shock moves around a bit at the top and you don't want to bind up the cable, although I don't see the reason for so big of a hole.

 

If you look at the strut travel on the stock Mini, it's pretty small before you run out of room and either hit maximum extension or start riding the bump stops. If one was to make an adjustable strut without an adjustable lower spring perch, with the intent of running lowering springs, it would be impossible to design so that it would work right.

There's nothing that says you can't get a set of full-on adjustable coil overs and choose a set that has good travel for the drop that you want, fix the height and have at it. In fact, to go any other way would give you a system that didn't work very well.

I understand that you have found solutions that worked for you with other cars, but this isn't those cars and it won't work here. At least not well.

Matt