I broke the bank today and dropped some cash on the good stuff. Tein RA Coilovers, complete with pillowball mounts n all. Also ordered some Suspension Techniques front and rear swaybars to keep the flex under wraps.

So now my question is.. how hard is it to do a coilover install? I know I'll need an alignment afterwards and I know I can't do that by myself, but I do have a ton of tools, and am very mechanically enclined (i'm no tech or anything, but i like wrenching on cars). However I have never done any suspension work myself, and was wondering if any of you guys who have done it yourselves could help me out in making this decision. I would much rather do it myself for the experience and the fun, but if its going to be insanely difficult i'd rather shell out for a shop to drop em in for me.

So anyone w/ experience doing this, please help me out!

Thanks~

 

its easy, i did mine in just under 2 hours by myself

 

Oh yeah? Did you need a spring compressor or anything?

 

yea, do you need a spring compressor?. I know bretx0r has some GGs with Koni Yellows. I have some GGs and just ordered some KYB agxs how hard is it to install it. I figured it wont be that hard since you can just take out the entire supension(shock and spring) and just put the coilovers in. Can anybody else provide more info, thanks.

BTW check out TeamToilet they have an article on how to install the teins.
http://www.teamtoilet.com/howto.htm.

 

if you have the ra's with pillow mounts, you have a complete drop in suspension. You DO NOT need a spring compressor.

 

If you ordered the Tein FULL coilovers w/ pillow mounts I don't think you will need a spring compressor. Unless they didn't come with

Just take the whole strut assembles out and put the new ones in. It's cake!! 4 hour job at the most unless you hit some stubborn rusted bolts.

Good luck, and have fun!!!

 

Damm.....got beat by two minutes.

I was too busy reading up on that stinkbox S2000.

 

Yeah, I got the full thing.

Cool, thanks alot for the replies guys.

Late~