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Originally Posted by talonTSIDriver
To start with, no one car is alike, to find the perfect spring rate sometimes trial and error come into play. If the car is driven often and yo would like a more comfortable ride, I'd say your 350front/250rear would be a very good start. I would not recommend driving on those springs that came with the coil-overs, could ruin the struts as those springs look like a VERY high spring rate.
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This is my DD, so i would like a halfway comfortable ride. A little stiffer just too compensate for the lowering and better dampened struts is all i'm looking for out of the spring rate. And i do expect them to be a little noisy or clank sometimes, but hopefully not too bad. I just want to get it to where it's dropped a little less than 2'' in the summer and then have the ability to raise it up to put my slicks on, and then use the rears to balance the front corner weights on the scales before going to the strip. Then i just have to be able to get it back to stock ride height for winter since she sees some snow duty as well. The springs that came with the kit are just about 5'' long, the reason i wanted to mount them is to get an idea on what length to order 7 or 8 since the sleeves will put the bottom perch up higher about 2'' to start with and i can go higher from there, but not lower because of the set screws. Unless i wanted to take them apart and flip the sleeves every summer/winter and that would make coil overs pointless.
What damage do you think they would do to the struts by being so stiff if it's only for a week or 2? The only reason i even question why they couldn't work, ifs that there has top be some kids who've ordered them, put them on and been fine for a little while at least. You'd think at least 6 months or so. But i could be wrong there too. I don't buy parts on ebay for that reason, it's hit or miss.