whats team lizzy?

 

Inside joke with a good friend.

 

gotcha. reminds me of my buddy's 86 corolla we all signed his lip in silver sharpie

 

D2 Racing coilovers, lots more room to drop (from where I have mine set) if anyone wanted to slam their ride.

 

Looks like a nice area..

 

depending on how these 17's look on my car i might be looking to trade my coilovers for someones spring set up

 

Question for you guys with coilovers. How do you keep the spring to stay seated properly in the top perch when the suspension is not compressed. Like when your coming off a curb and the back wheel lifts off the ground or when u jack the rear up. My rear shock is at the smallest height possible and it will still let the spring come lose off the top when it's not compressed? Any ideas how I can fix this?

 

I am not sure there is anything we can do about that? What I do is make sure it is seated to the buttom before lowering the car on a jack stands. Not sure if this is necessary but I do it when ever I can.

 

It will happen but when the car is on the ground it rarely will ever become fully uncompressed. I was running straight 6.5in tall springs all last summer and I never had a problem. Once in a while I would hear it clunk as it reseated, but it never shot out lol.

 

I have an LS and want to lower it, looks like coilovers are the way to go

 

 

Ark DT-P coilovers!!! on 225/40/18's

 

i have a 2006 cobalt ss and im trying to lower it 2+ inches. any suggestions?

 

^eibach pro kit springs

 

Nothing better than KW variant 3's, nuff said!!!

 

well actually there's quite a lot that's better than v3s. Are there v3s even made to fit the balt?

 

I dont have a balt, i have a Saturn Sky Redline. Learn my lesson with FWD.

 

nope just V1 and V2s. Looks like a lot of people dont run V2s. Ill be using them for my STX setup with different spring rates. I have been talking with AST about a custom 5220 setup but then im looking at 6 grand for coilovers. Not bad to have a autoX built setup but I dont have that cash right now :P

 

Did they mention how much they want for 4200 w/ strut mounts? Sucks that it's so much less for other cars like BMW and STI

 

KW v3 wont happen, not nuff market. I asked them.
y not ohlins ^_^

 

those were around 4500 i think. i know its 2500 for custom shocks alone lol

 

I sent an email to GC about modifying some of their newer strut mounts to fit. Would rather not do a top down, since that would drop the car more. Plus they have some nice double duty strut mounts that aren't full blown metal all the way through. Not a bad option for those of us driving on a semi daily basis.

I think I could live with KW V2 with adjustable mounts. Camber bolts are okay, but IMO side load the strut internals more, and is less efficient. Plus I'm guessing the plates are going to be less slip prone.

Something like this would be nice:

Ground Control - Camber Plate-STREET BMW E90 (2006-Up 3 Series), E82/E88 (2008-Up 1 Series) (Pair)

Not much caster adjustment, but I can live without crazy caster, which would just cause bump steer anyways.

 

Why not get the Bilstein coilovers from that one cobalt place? I can't remember the site off the top of my head, on my ipad2 at the moment. I think they were around $3200 or so and are fully adjustable. I was thinking about getting them at one point, they sound/look like a nice kit.


Edit: Nevermind I just read what victory_red_ss said bout them. Well that's good, I don't have to lust after them anymore... Still crappy we have pretty much no good coilovers.

 

yeah i would like to try and not use camber bolts. Does anyone make top mounts for a cobalt? besides Pedders when you get their coilovers?

 

John used the VW ones, but IMO, GC has made better ones since then, and if we could use one of the bottom up designs, we might not have the deflection problems he had. What can I say, I like curb hopping on track.