I own a 2.2 LS Coupe, just wanting to know, how hard is it to put the lowering springs on the car?

 

i want to know too.. i heard its easy if you have a spring compressor, 2 floor jacks and 2 jack stands...

 

Overall its not hard for the front at least, i have no idea how to do the back.

But no matter what you'll need an alignment very soon after you do this to your car, so thats were you definetly need to spend the money on a pro.

 

the back is alot easier than the front al u need is one jack.... lift the car up so the tires hang down, then pull the spring out, pop a new one in.... to pull the old ones out just pull down on the section hanging down with the rear suspencion when the tires are off,,,, that brace with all of the circles in it

 

unbolting the rear shocks helps a bit too

 

I just put the pro kit on my LS and thought it was one the easiest spring installs I'v done yet.
Front I rented a spring compressor from Auto Zone.
Jack the front and put it on the frame,took the wheel off.Disconnected the upper bolt (18mm i think)from the end link to the the strut.Loosen the 2 nuts til there almost threaded off and then took a hammer and hit the bolt through because its pressed in.Then took both the nuts and bolts out.Next take the 3 (13mm) nuts off the upper strut under the hood.Then the strut & spring comes out.Use the spring compressor and swap out the springs,just look how the stock one is in there and make sure the new one is the same.Once the spring is compressed I used a impact to take the strut nut off.You could skip this whole process and once the strut and spring is out take it to your local tire place and they would swap out the springs for ya fairly cheap.
Then put it back together in reverse order.

Back is real easy,I did even pull the wheels off to take the bottom shock bolt out.Jack the rear up on the frame so the wheels hang.Got an extension and took the lower shock bolt out through the wheel, the spring falls out damn near.Put new spring in and put the jack under the spring perch and jack it up til the lower shock bolt can go back in.

Thats it,really easy to do if have some knowledge about tools and cars.A few hour job tops.

I did this last Thursday and just got back from the alignment place and with the pro kit the camber was within spec,actually the whole alignment was within spec except for toe which out of spec about .6 or something.So the toe was only thing that was changed.The pro kit isn't much of a drop at all but going with something like sportlines I'm sure the alignment would be all out of whack.

Hope this helps

 

do you think the pro kit would look nice on 2005 ls sedan with 16,s rims and where do i buy it

 

thanks for all the help

 

Your local parts store.

 

Check out the HOW-TO right here!

 

The rear can be done with a 3 ton jack and two jack stands!

1. do not remove the tires
2. get car on jack stands (car in gear and block the front tires for safety)
3. put 3 ton jack under suspension arm in the middle (for lack of a better term) By suspension arm I mean the great swing arm that attachs to the frame to the tires, hold the springs and is held up by shocks.
4. take out top shock bolt both sides. you can get at it without removing the tires.
5. lower arm till you can take springs out. no compressors needed.
6. put rubber isolators from old srings to the new springs.
7. I have the confidence you can handle it from here. just reverse procedure when you put the springs back in.

 

sweet guys i should be ordering my springs soon, i wanted that 2" drop, what size rims can i get with it, and what is the best place to buy these springs?

 

Working at Sears I found out we sell and install Eibach items. I was looking through the books they send us and for the Cobalt it suggests no alignment problems, no major adjustments.

I think its safe to say you wont be needing a camber kit at all for the cobalt

 

that is correct no camber kit needed. just align it to factory and go

 

Ok, great infomation here guys. I have one quick question. I to am looking into a kit for me 05 SS, however I'm not sure how far to drop it. I plan on running the stock rims with the stock tire and would like to drop the car just above the wheels. How would I go about figuring out what size drop spring to use. I overheard a guy at a local car show talking about how he just measured the distance between the wheel and the bottom of the wheelwell and then he cut then with torch. Holy crap I CRINGED! His **** looked sweet slamed, but wheels toed something awful. Any input would be great guys, thanks.

 

You know what, I just thought about something else and I'm sure there is a tread on it here somewhere. Is it better to run a set of coilovers vs lowering spring? What you folks think?

 

to do what you want to do or for the ocasional show coil overs are the way to go. you can dial in to make it right.

if you want it for the street well let tell you I wouldnt do anything more than sportlines. cheap looks good. gap is two fingers between the tire and wheel well. and the ride. great! but I can bottom and sometimes pretty easy. I really really cant see myself going lower for the street.

show car and occasional ride ok but otherwise no thanks.