After I installed my fe5 struts/shocks i expected the car to be stiff, the front is VERY!! the back is not. I push down on the front end of the car with all my weight and it barely moves, i do it to the back and it moves a good amount.

This is what my rear coils look like, they are Megan Racing springs and this doesnt look right:


Looks like way too many of the coils are bound together, whats going on here? car is on flat ground in garage.

 

IIRC all the lowering springs bind except for eibach pro kit and pedders

 

lol rusted out already wtf

 

Yup coil bind is guaranteed unless u get pedders. And even then u can still get some in some cases

 

SSC/CM springs

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/5958270-post4.html

 

Yeah my coils even bind but mine are cheap. Idk about other springs but really the only way to keep those springs and get rid of coil bind is gonna be to cut them and fabricate seats to align them properly again. I may look into doing that myself.

 

i heard somethin about gettin a plastic tube around em or somethin?

 

lol my teins came with a plastic piece that went around some of the rear springs, it's w/e i get no harsher of a ride than stock, i don't road race or auto x

 

are those upside down or are mine?


and i bought these springs for $60 from a local CL add, used for 40k miles he said.

 

ya most of the time, I see em flipped the other way when installed.. I got some CM springs I haven't put in yet, so I was really wonderin

 

That guy in the thread (or someone else before) said CM emailed them and told them that was the proper way for them to be installed ill see if I can find the thread

 

What do y'all mean about a plastic tube going around the spring?

 

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/susp...e-down-257761/

 

my eibach pro kit doesn't really have any bind on stock FE1 shocks/struts, and i have the plastic around the bottom couple coils in the rear too