Well, my best friend and I lowered my car on Eibach Sportlines tonight, which are ******* amazing by the way, and whilst pulling out the front-left strut, a little plastic piece fell off. I have no clue what the **** it is or what it does. It was located somewhat near the rear, of the inner part of the fender on the top.



It's not broken, I just need to figure out what it is and how to put it back.

 

wtf ? post pics of your LS dropped please

 

I'll post them tomorrow, it's about midnight here. It's ******* slammed though. The front and back wheels are near tucked on stock steelies; the front more so than the back, but you get the idea.

 

yah im getting ready to install my sportlines too!

 

For sure bro. It's ******* easy as hell. Don't listen to the time estimate to install them with the how-to's on this forum, especially the front. Some dude estimated 2-4 hours on the front alone. We got it done in an hour flat, front and back.

 

if your car is working fine, i wouldnt worry about it, kinda looks like a bump stop or something...

 

yah man im getting FE5 struts though so it should take less than 1hr

 

Nah, it's not the bump stop. The bump stop is located inside of a rubber-type housing, that surrounds the strut.

This is some **** like, top of the fender, behind the strut, towards the center of the car.

Yeah man, it should be really easy. I really can't exaggerate enough on that. Don't worry about torque specs for most of the bullshit either; just impact the **** on. Like the strut to steering knuckle, or stabilizer link to strut nut. My friend who helped me works on these ***** day in and day out. There's no need for torquing that crap. If you've got all the tools in front of you, it's cake.

 

Yeah I have those in my wheel wells as well. Honestly I don't know what they are for. I wanted to take pictures and post on here so somebody could tell me but I never got around to taking the pics. Was it attached to a tube or anything else? I imagined that it funneled air through there and the flap on it would open, letting in air to cool the brakes.

 

haha, excellent plan

 

Mm..

That could make sense.

I should probably put that **** back on.

Haha.

Hell, if it was made of cheap ass plastic, it couldn't have been too important.

 

I thinks its a water drain for the base of the windshield. I have a Pontiac G5 and have it too.

 

How is the ride on the new springs? I know i lowered my cavalier and after a while they got real bumpy, real bad. I've thought about doing it to the new balt & love the look but dont wanna go through all that again.

 

Ah.

Yeah, it was worth it for sure. The only gripe I have, is it feels like when I accelerate from first, it feels like front-left wheel like wobbles side to side or something. It's weird, you won't feel it past 1st gear. My friend doesn't notice it, so I might be crazy.

Here is the picture, it was taken via camera phone.

Also, no **** I don't have hubcaps, I nailed a curb at the beginning of Winter and destroyed two of them, so for now I'm just **** out of luck.

 

**** looks sexy i did mine the other day two just me and a buddy took use less than an hour easy as cake had the rears done in 6 minutes lol

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/suspension-67/i-finally-put-my-ksport-springs-154765/

to see a pic of it

 

Water cooled brakes!...only when it rains lol

 

you think sportlines are slammed,**** im the same drop in the rear but way lower than sportlines in the front

 

i have the eibach sportlines they just dont make the car lowe enough looking for 2" in front and 2.5" in back any suggestions

 

All it is, is a drain that mounts at the top of the inside of the fender well. Next time you raise the car look up inside the fender and youll see where it goes. One of mine broke when I had to do some suspension work. Its No biggie.

 

Spring take a little settle in all the way. My car looks slammed even on the stock steelies. I'm more than satisfied with it.

 

and shadow, that "wobble" your feeling is normal when you lower a car. your changing the driveline angle of the axle so its causing that slight vibe