Floaty fix while retaining EDC?

[Captain Starbucks]

Hi,

I bought my car last year lowered on H&R. It's my daily and there are plenty of crap roads where I live. I raised it back up with some factory ZCP springs and my original EDC Non-ZCP dampers with 63k on them.

Now, the ride is good and I think the car actually handles better based on entry and exit speeds on the same corners I routinely hit on my daily commute. My problem is that the scalpel steering and feeling is gone. I miss it. Not bad enough go back to bouncing around and dragging guts all the time but I do miss it.

I've heard others complain about the floatiness as well.

I did not get it aligned after raising back up. Tracks straight, wheel is centered but that doesn't really mean a whole lot.

Ideas?

Thank you.

Rob in Tacoma

[wyatth]

If you like the EDC ride but just want it tightened up front with some better turn in, I highly recommend the Dinan front sway bar and camber plates with a proper alignment. I wanted to retain my (ZCP) EDC suspension as well and these components really perfected it IMO.

Cheers,
Wyatt from Tacoma

[Captain Starbucks]

Thanks for the info Wyatt.

My issue isn't so much with turn in and cornering. I should have been a bit more clear.

Cruising down the freeway, the car seems....not nervous per se, that would be an overstatement. Just not nearly as planted and confident in a straight line at freeway speed. I want that back.

[Redd]

Rear subframe bushings and front monoballs.

[Z K]

The floatiness is a combination of lack of rebound from the OEM EDC shocks and the car riding on the bump stops under hard cornering.

EDC adjustment does not change the rebound of the shock - it only changes the bound to make it feel stiff on compression. That's what gives it the "float" sensation as the shock is not rebounding fast enough between bumps.

Short of replacing the oem shocks with higher rebound shorter body shocks with shorter bump stops i.e. some aftermarket coilovers, I don't think there is solution.

A partial solution may be to replace the OEM EDC shocks with aftermarket shocks that are valved for more sporty handling and add shorter bump stops. This assumes you are using OEM springs.

[Captain Starbucks]

I'm sure the floaty feeling is there in the corners but I don't notice it. I do notice in corners the oscillating pitch that Isaac talks about.

Regarding the rebound, yeah, the car should make adjustments to the rebound when you change the EDC settings but that doesn't happen.

My EDC is working, and I like it. I change settings on it at least 4x per commute. 4x in the morning, 4x in the evening. I like the adjustability. There are some pretty crappy roads in town, but then some 80 mph sweepers outside of town.

Overall, I'm very happy with the way the car handles, just was a bit disappointed with the steering after I raised it back up on ZCP springs after getting rid of the horrible H&R ride.