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Old Feb 26, 2011 | 12:13 PM
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Default How do you lower your car without sacrificing ride quality?

What kit, spring/strut combo could you use? I'm looking for a mild drop but I do NOT want it to be uncomfortable. My car now has koni yellows and gc's (450f/400r). And it's a nightmare around town. I want my next car to look good but ride nice. Any ideas?
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Old Feb 26, 2011 | 02:40 PM
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Keep your Koni's and get Eibach pro's
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Old Feb 26, 2011 | 09:42 PM
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Default Re: How do you lower your car without sacrificing ride quality?

Originally Posted by STOCK_SOHC_DX
Keep your Koni's and get Eibach pro's
any suggestions on a good website to buy some at a reasonable price?
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 05:24 PM
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Default Re: How do you lower your car without sacrificing ride quality?

Keep the Koni's, raise the car up some and/or get a softer spring. If you don't care about adjustability, get a set of quality lowering springs, like Eibach or H&R. They will be MUCH more comfortable than GC's.
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 08:21 PM
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Default Re: How do you lower your car without sacrificing ride quality?

how much you want for the GCs?
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 09:07 PM
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I kept my ride slammed and I take a longer route to work but it's alot smoother and as far as driveways and speed bumps I go around and try to find a better exit but sometimes you just gotta go into battle with those bad boys. . .
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 11:07 PM
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I kept my ride slammed and I take a longer route to work but it's alot smoother and as far as driveways and speed bumps I go around and try to find a better exit but sometimes you just gotta go into battle with those bad boys. . .
What in the world does this have to do with what he asked??

I agree with solbrothers..

That or you can try and find drop forks, and pro arms form ST.
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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 05:25 AM
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Default Re: How do you lower your car without sacrificing ride quality?

Originally Posted by Romo Pyro
What kit, spring/strut combo could you use? I'm looking for a mild drop but I do NOT want it to be uncomfortable. My car now has koni yellows and gc's (450f/400r). And it's a nightmare around town. I want my next car to look good but ride nice. Any ideas?
Keep the Koni shocks, set the circlips/perches to the lowest setting all around, put your stock front springs back on, and find some OEM ITR rear springs to even out the ride height.

I went through the exact same scenario as you back in 2005 - I had Koni/GC with 380/450 rates and a 100 mile commute. Sucked. So I did the above and have been riding this way nearly 6 years now. It rides a touch stiffer than stock due to the stiffer rear ITR springs, but nowhere near the harshness of stiff@$$ coilover springs.

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^^^This^^^
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