Looking to Get Car Lowered. Any Opinions?

[Surf Thrasher]

I'm looking into getting my car lowered finally. I got a quote for KYB AGX for $637.22 total, anyone have any suggestions for anything good, but just a little cheaper? I wanted the adjustables, but I can deffinetly do without if I can get a descent set for a better price, because I could do alot more with the left over money. Any pictures and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks

 

[dmorris05]

You dont want coilovers which are the adjustable ones. Just go with good springs. I have Tenzo-R Springs on Mine with KYB Struts. My cousin had coilovers on his 97 eclipse spyder and ####ed up his whole suspension (all 4 struts etc.) Plus they ride really shitty. I love the ride mine has.

 

[SinEclipse]

i have coilovers and they do not ride shitty at all and i do not have any problems with mine. i have tein basic coilovers, plus the price difference on your qoute is not that much compare to the tein basic i got. mine was $700 shipped.

 

[Itzallstock]

I paid about $800 for a brand new set up. Ebaich Springs and AGX Adjustable Shocks. My brother went with the Ky-b's. I understand they are the same shock but NOT adjsutable like the AGX's. Well let me tell you, his ride now looks getto becasue it brought the car so far down and the ride quality is shit. With mine, i have it set at about 4 and its a dream! I can take cornors and any amount of speed. Thats on shitt-y tires too! The girl-friend doesnt complain about the ride quality at all. In fact its better. Much more tight and has a better recovery after bumps. The front and rear strut bars helped alot too! But that price you gave for jsut the shocks is a rip off. You can get thoose puppys for about 350-375 off ebay brand new. I like how the spings settled my ride. Belive it or not it takes a couple weeks for the car to settle. I came down about 1.5 With some 17's or 18's I'll be looking good with no Wheel Gap.
Oh I forgot to mention. For us FWD guys.....NO FRICKEN WHEEL HOP! You can rev the engine to high hills and dump the clutch and the tires spin with beauty!
Whatever you make sure you keep um clean and love um, Dont go with anything less then thoose AGX's. I was told by some people that they would be too stiff of a ride. Not true in my case at least.........
-Ben

 

[JSt86]

just get some tokico hp performance shocks (aka tokico blues) the adjustable or non adjustable depending on what you want. i have the non adjustable and they are great.

alot of guys on this site use them and they are cheap look on ebay for a good price.

 

[Mattitude v1]

My buddy had tokico adjustables and blew 2 shocks in a year, not reckless driving but by driving carefully over bad roads. He also had sportline springs which didn't help the case. If bad roads are common where you live, I'd stay away from tokico and not lower it too much.

 

[green machine]

i have the kyb shocks with eibach 1.6 sportline springs and the car has the perfect drop and is great for racing.pics of car are in my gallary.

 

[SlowdsmGST]

I enjoy my sprint spring there a nice 2" drop. I am still on stock shock but there under warrenty with Auto zone...... Its good to be a Manager there

 

[Surf Thrasher]

I enjoy my sprint spring there a nice 2" drop. I am still on stock shock but there under warrenty with Auto zone...... Its good to be a Manager there

How much did you pay for the sprint springs? How's the ride with the stock shocks?

 

[SlowdsmGST]

200.00 for the springs the car doesn't ride bad at all I had to buy a camber kit but the car rides like it did stock just sits lower. Also stop some of my wheel hop off the line.

 

[destik1]

For the money, your best bet is to get the tein basic coil-over setup. The shocks aren't adjustable, but the ride height is. Tein makes real good quality products. I ended up with kyb agxs, and tein s-tech springs, and really wish I would have spent the extra hundred dollars or so to end up with a lot better set up. Tanabe makes good full coilover systems as well.

 

[Jaronk56]

I have koni coil overs on my spyder...... They rock!

 

[ddavisaf]

KYB AGX Shocks with Ground Control Coilovers. Auto X proven... great setup

 

[splattj]

thespeedfactor had Tein Basic Coil-Overs for $700 a set and Tanabe Sustec Pro S-OCII for $675. They're both non-adjustable inserts. For $899 you can get D2 coilovers from them as well.

 

[ZachM31]

i have the Tein Super Street Suspension, it was on the car when i got it, i think the guy before me got them for $950... i adjusted it right when i got it, and raised it up 3 whole turns, but now that summer is here, i dropped it down 2 turns and got it aligned finally... you can really make your passenger mad if you set the rebound and compression all the way to the hardest setting... haha i think one girl asked me if my car had suspension? haha i was like uh yeah, every car has a suspension set-up... oh well.... i set it to setting 10 now i think, a little bit easier on my back. from what i hear, KYB shocks and tein springs is a good combo.

 

[projctWraith]

Just get some good springs and a camber kit for now. This isn't a bad time to get all those stock bushings replaced with urethane ones.