Ride Height..... hence wheel gap....official answer

[lion shf]

Mine, touring looks nothing like those gaps that photography is very mis leading (unintentionally I know)

This is my touring as sat on the drive right View attachment 25328now after 900mls. Not porsche GT ride height but Perfectly acceptable looking ride height imo, doesn't look odd to me

Yes, yes it does

 

[kitkat]

Mine, touring looks nothing like those gaps that photography is very mis leading (unintentionally I know)

This is my touring as sat on the drive right View attachment 25328now after 900mls. Not porsche GT ride height but Perfectly acceptable looking ride height imo, doesn't look odd to me

She looks great!

This is what the Emiras look like to me irl, representative angle etc. You can zoom into the gap and distort it to accent the gap in any photo, but it's just not what it looks like in person. Proportions and stance look just right.

 

[Barcino2012]

Like this?

View attachment 25030
From my Evora when I fitted the BOE lowering cups.

My sport option Emira has the front on the middle groove.
Rear is hard to tell as the spring obscures the cup but I think it’s on the top groove.

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How do you move the spring perch cup from one ring position to the other. If the Emira has the same Bilstein, would be awesome to lower just 5mm….

edited……just realize they are snap rings……so it is obvious …… I had the Emira shocks apart I did not notice those 3 grooves…..did I miss it? I seem to recall it being just one lip……

 

[KJD]

How do you move the spring perch cup from one ring position to the other. If the Emira has the same Bilstein, would be awesome to lower just 5mm….

edited……just realize they are snap rings……so it is obvious ……she I had the Emira shocks apart I did not notice those 3 grooves…..did I miss it? I seem to recall it being just one lip……

Well, every Lotus Bilstein I’ve seen has grooves, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t suddenly changed…

When I eventually took my front damper off I found it was already on the lowest groove (sport setup) so no free lowering.

 

[Porter]

Honestly y'all, these seem more useful for rudimentary corner balancing than for ride height adjustment. I would put it on scales first.

 

[Lotus64]

The sports chassis sits lower than the touring chassis. It's visible when they're parked side by side. I observed this at the dealer with brand new Emiras.

Loosely paraphrasing the dealer, they confirmed the tour / sport springs are seated differently after they lowered a tour suspension for a customer.