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Pedders Camaro coils have been designed to work with your OEM dampers. The SS dampers particularly are very well done from the factory. When matched to a set of Pedders coils, you can expect your Camaro to ride almost like factory even though it has been lowered and handle with a more aggressive edge. Pedders lowering coils will be available for order in a matter of weeks.

 

For those who want the best of the best with track like performance and OEM like ride comfort and more drop than available through lowering coils Pedders 160086 eXtreme Xa Coilovers are the ultimate answer. The Xa coilover has a full range of travel when close to OEM height or fully dropped. This is made possible by the unique fully threaded 46mm monotube damper body that screws into or out of the lower mounting bracket leaving the coil and suspension travel unchanged. The front coilovers use the OEM bearing and coil mount and typical cylindrical coil. The rear structure for the ZETA II Camaro requires a cone like coil wind and the large four bolt upper OEM spring perch. Pedders takes great care in the design of a coilover to make certain that it is fully compatible with the OEM mountings. The Camaro clevis accepts the OEM brake lines and ABS wiring just like the OEM strut. It is as easy as take off the OEM black and install the Pedders Red Xa unit.

 

Spring and rates and damper mapping are mission critical to the enthusiast and exceptionally well done with the R & D for the Pedders Xa Camaro application. Using 8kg coils front and 10kg coils rear the spring rates bring balance to the factory 52 / 48 weight distribution. There is a motion ratio at work in the rear of the Camaro making the spring rates almost perfectly matched. There are 30 positions to the Xa damper settings from OEM soft to R compound tire race track ready hard. The positive click adjustments are easy to make and alter the bound and rebound as well as the high and low speed circuits. Many adjustable dampers only allow the end user to change the low speed settings. For the enthusiast having the ability to alter both high and low speed operation is a huge plus.

 

Pedders made the decision to give the end user control over both circuits because it is what we would want on our personal vehicles. Taking this one step further we could have made the adjustments independent of bound and rebound. That is what the cars you see racing professionally run. Improperly adjusting bound and rebound can be dangerous to the end user. We choose to fix the bound to rebound ratio so that even a novice user can confidently make damper adjustments and know that if they adjust incorrectly the ride may be too tight or too soft while providing a very broad damper map. The difference between full soft and full hard feels as though the coils were actually changed on the vehicle. This range of damping adjustment makes the Pedders Xa Camaro coilovers well suited to a vehicle that will be driven daily and when take to the track quickly clicked into a track ready state.

 

When ride height adjustment is independent of suspension travel and combined with an exceptionally broad damper map that is adjusted by positive clicks the end user and a car that is bushed to be foundationally sound the end result is an exceptionally fine handling automobile with a forgiving OEM like ride. Pedders foundation as a company is more than just bits, we are suspension specialists. A lowered vehicle must have a full range of alignment adjustments. The Camaro delivers from Chevrolet with a fixed Castor position. The radius arm bolts into round holes with no available adjustment. There is a threaded hole for front Camber adjustment, but no bolt is installed and no part number is listed by Chevrolet. The rear OEM eccentric adjusters for Toe and Camber provide approximately one degree. For an alignment specialist this is simply unacceptable. We want to get your Camaro perfectly setup. This is what Pedders is all about. Our solution is a set of cadmium plated eXtreme Alignment Bolts. While GM made the hole round for the front Castor Adjustment or lack thereof, they did weld in brackets for an eccentric to work against. Your local Pedders Dealer can create a slot to provide Castor adjustment with Pedders Camaro Alignment Bolts. The kit provides the front Camber screws that GM didn't.

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