With my new project I am eager to get some suspension work started.

While installing my LS meshies I found that the springs on the car are green Tiens but the shocks look stock. My problem is that I can't see any other identifying numbers on the springs to know how much this car is lowered. I would like to have an idea of where the car would sit after I put on a fresh set of coilovers with a moderate drop, but since I am not sure what my currrent baseline is, I might not get a drop at all.

Does anyone have an idea on the best practice for figuring this out? I saw a couple conflicting answers for stock ride height elsewhere so I wasn't confident I was getting a correct answer. I felt this was a semi specific enough question to put here rather than the suspension forum.

This is currently how the car sits.

 

Anyone?

 

Not a peep.. alright then

 

So you think you have lowering springs on factory shocks?

That sounds a little less than ideal.

Question, if you lift from the front or rear, do the springs run out of reach/travel before the shocks do?

 

Did it occur to you to get numbers off the springs and contact TEIN to discover what you have ? Your car doesn't appear lowered at all... so there is likely more to this issue than you think.

 

Good attempt at being a duck when I said in my post I couldn’t read any numbers on the springs. I can only see the tien logo.

so far when I have put the car on stands I haven’t noticed that the springs come off the perches of the struts but they do droop down quite a bit. All the suspension is worn but I plan on changing all that out.

I am not sure if it is lowered at all, I’m kind of hoping it isn’t so I can clear a little wheel gap with the fresh coil overs