Sam Strano

Those are WAY to tight. Do what Import Slaya did, that is all.

Unless it's a big bolt hand tight is generally good enough. You can't torque up against rubber or urethane bushings, which is why you can't get a spec. Just make sure there is no play, common sense. Lower strut bolts, brake caliper bolts, control arm bolts, things that would be major issues if they fell off, well torquing those is only smart.

darksky1984

Mine look like that too. I just kept tightening until the shock started spinning. There was no way I could get the torque spec without them spinning.

jlwdvm

Set the torque on my lower strut bolts last night...165lbs is a lot of torque! My torque wrench went to 150 (pointer type) so I went beyond that on the pointer a little to get to over 160.

DPE

Yup, those are too tight as they sit now. Your bushings will split. I know this because my bushings started to split and I had to get a couple new ones from Koni. You just snug the ones back there and that's it. Shouldn't bulge much past the washer, if any. And I used blue Loctite after noticing that they seem to loosen up a bit over time. In fact, I used blue Loctite on just about everything; this car has a weird pattern of things randomly coming loose, and that's even with using all new hardware as I did when I installed mine.

Just to be clear, the rear lower shock bolt should be torqued to 85 ft-lbs; don't change anything there (other than adding Loctite ). But for the upper nut just ignore the spec and snug them up as described above.