DarrenDriven's Shop - SPRINGS IN STOCK! Home of the 25 minute spring install

[DarrenDriven]

Andy ( @OurFirst86 ) and his brother stopped by today and Tyler installed some Tein S.Tech springs into his dirty white beast.

[speedy]

I'm a definite maybe for this -- I've got some H&R Sport Springs in the box, which I bought as a stop-gap before getting coilovers. Now I'm having second thoughts and thinking of just buying coilovers now rather than going through the pain of doing this twice.

Honestly the coilover market is just ridiculous. I thought I'd picked a set (the KW Variant 3), but then I find out that I also need camber plates, and maybe new endlinks? I'm half scared that I'd show up at the lowering day only to not have half the stuff I need.

Any suggestions for someone looking to improve handling at the track, without totally sacrificing DD-ability, and avoid going too much over $2K all inclusive?

[ilpad]

Originally Posted by Jmonty

Not sure how much the drop is on Yellows, but I will need to pick up a set of LCA to get back to 100% alignment.

love the ride height, and look with the 17 X 9 245/40/17

You can still align to run straight without the LCA's but you will need them if you do not want any camber lowered.

[Decay107]

Originally Posted by speedy

I'm a definite maybe for this -- I've got some H&R Sport Springs in the box, which I bought as a stop-gap before getting coilovers. Now I'm having second thoughts and thinking of just buying coilovers now rather than going through the pain of doing this twice.

Honestly the coilover market is just ridiculous. I thought I'd picked a set (the KW Variant 3), but then I find out that I also need camber plates, and maybe new endlinks? I'm half scared that I'd show up at the lowering day only to not have half the stuff I need.

Any suggestions for someone looking to improve handling at the track, without totally sacrificing DD-ability, and avoid going too much over $2K all inclusive?

I've just put on a set of MCA Reds, haven't tried them on the track yet, but they are designed to be streetable track focused coilover system. MCA has two systems, one falls around 1600 (Blue) and one falls around 2700 (Red). Both come with everything you need.

I did a lot of talking to Josh at MCA when I was deciding on coilovers and found him to be really helpful. Plus it's cool being able to bounce suspension ideas off of the guy who has set up three of the current fastest time attack cars in the world.

Only real downside is that you'll have to import them from Australia.
Also they don't lower the car as much as other systems, if that's something you care about.

http://mcasuspension.com/blue-series/

[Jmonty]

Car just after the Swift Sprc R install



With the new shoes mounted



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just a tad bit of poke

[ilpad]

@Jmonty looks great man!

[Jmonty]

Very happy with the set up!

[DarrenDriven]

Not sure yet... it will depend on how many cars we end up doing. The EARLIEST I would want to get started is 10am if we have all 10 slots full... maybe 11am or noon if we don't.

[sweetfrs]

Originally Posted by Marchy

want to meet up and cruise down together?

definitely,

[Touge_ninja]

I wanna go!!

[Ris]

i've got eibach sportlines as well.

[XanRules]

Originally Posted by DarrenDriven

Andy ( @OurFirst86 ) and his brother stopped by today and Tyler installed some Tein S.Tech springs into his dirty white beast.

Hey brochacho, you gonna be around tomorrow?

[Turbo95eg6]

Originally Posted by indesign

Front lip fits good. It's well made and not all warped looking like the ebay replicas. I couldn't be more satisfied. Paint does not match, which is a downer. It actually matched better when it was still primered. lol.

Is there pearl in the paint? Who painted it?

[m.box.design]

Originally Posted by Turbo95eg6

Is there pearl in the paint? Who painted it?

I took it to Europa Autobody on SE Division. There is pearl in the paint, and it matched the 37J code on the key chart, which means the paint on my car is likely not correctly 37J or the paint catalog at the shop was off.

The paint key sample was clearly different from my car, but the guy said "sometimes paint appears differently on different materials", so I took his word for it and went ahead with 37J; which is now too white for my car, as my car is more cream colored. To be frank, 36J seemed to be a closer match to my car's color; but damn, hindsight sucks. I already spent my money and signed off on the work.

I'll just respray in the future if the paint tone doesn't change with some aging.