King, Tein or Whiteline lowered springs - pics?

ygoslo · Post by **ygoslo** » Mon May 07, 2007 7:06 pm

I'm looking at getting a set of lowered springs but I wanna know at what height the car will sit after they go in. So if anyone has pics of their car with lowered springs, please post them up here & let me know part numbers or names of the components used... Ta!

jonowong · Post by **jonowong** » Mon May 07, 2007 7:10 pm

usually when u buy springs it will say... 35mm lower.. or 45mm or whatever on them...

after that go outside and use a ruler

ygoslo · Post by **ygoslo** » Mon May 07, 2007 7:21 pm

I would but I dunno if my current springs are stock or not!

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:12 pm

u just want lowered springs with stock shockers?

King, Whiteline are basically the same. Will do the job. I had some pedders when i bought the car, they weren't too bad actually with my new Koni shockers.

ygoslo · Post by **ygoslo** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:29 pm

Will probably stick with teh standard shocks for the time being. I'm actually quite interested in the Tein S-Tech springs, part # SKR36-H1B00

I'm a little biased towards Japanese parts generally...

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Tue May 08, 2007 8:44 pm

ygoslo wrote:Will probably stick with teh standard shocks for the time being. I'm actually quite interested in the Tein S-Tech springs, part # SKR36-H1B00

I'm a little biased towards Japanese parts generally...

Jap suspension is too hard generally.

bigpitty1 · Post by **bigpitty1** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:01 am

You also got APEXi lowering springs, they aren't too bad, not too hard, bit softer than coilovers and are jap, just what you are looking for, I'm still using mine with the stock struts.

before

after

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:29 am

Looks so bloody tropical round your place bigpitty

Palm trees everywhere!

eThix · Post by **eThix** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:56 am

sorry i got no idea on lowering springs, so just want to ask somthing, is it easy to changing them??? like what you done?

jonowong · Post by **jonowong** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:02 am

eThix wrote:sorry i got no idea on lowering springs, so just want to ask somthing, is it easy to changing them??? like what you done?

suspention sticky thread at the top of technical/performance section of the forum

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:05 am

Also made it a DIY

http://www.ftoaustralia.com/modules.php ... pic&t=8761

Ass of a job if you dont have a hoist

Oh & here's the Apex springs - am sitting on 18's btw.

eThix · Post by **eThix** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:37 am

ok to hard.... as soon as i seen the Special tools required......

yellowftogpx · Post by **yellowftogpx** » Thu May 10, 2007 4:55 pm

khunjeng wrote:u just want lowered springs with stock shockers?

King, Whiteline are basically the same. Will do the job. I had some pedders when i bought the car, they weren't too bad actually with my new Koni shockers.

hey,mate , how much did u spend for your koni shockers? unadjustable ? is it very stiff and uncomfortable ?

bigpitty1 · Post by **bigpitty1** » Thu May 10, 2007 6:48 pm

eThix wrote:ok to hard.... as soon as i seen the Special tools required......

Those special tools are just spring compressors and you can by a set from supercheap like between $10-$15, I forget the price but no more than $15, the rear is a bit harder to change the spring I had to compress the spring while it was in the car to remove the whole assembly.

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:14 pm

yellowftogpx wrote:
khunjeng wrote:u just want lowered springs with stock shockers?

King, Whiteline are basically the same. Will do the job. I had some pedders when i bought the car, they weren't too bad actually with my new Koni shockers.
hey,mate , how much did u spend for your koni shockers? unadjustable ? is it very stiff and uncomfortable ?

Koni are fantastic shockers. mine are adjustable.

not sh*t like the stock suspension.