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Old Feb 18, 2009 | 02:50 PM
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I have a prokit on my car right now and I'm killing my rear tires over bumps so swapping my stock springs back in out back. I just realized my stock springs are 1le's (22132889 p/n). Anyone have pics of 1le springs with the heater hose set up. I'm also doing qa1's with the 199-sm bracket from tunder racing. Hopefully I dont hurt my 60's in the process. Car was doing 1.54 60's before
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Old Feb 18, 2009 | 05:52 PM
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why would you need pics of them. every spring is the same. just slide the hose over first full coil and itll be fine.
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Old Feb 18, 2009 | 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Ruckus46Gt
I have a prokit on my car right now and I'm killing my rear tires over bumps so swapping my stock springs back in out back. I just realized my stock springs are 1le's (22132889 p/n). Anyone have pics of 1le springs with the heater hose set up. I'm also doing qa1's with the 199-sm bracket from tunder racing. Hopefully I dont hurt my 60's in the process. Car was doing 1.54 60's before
Heater hose mod with stock springs....
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Old Feb 19, 2009 | 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by EchoMirage
why would you need pics of them. every spring is the same. just slide the hose over first full coil and itll be fine.
found a chart online before I posted it that showed diff spring rates and a slightly different spring height.
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Old Feb 19, 2009 | 12:05 PM
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Since it takes all of 10 minutes to swap the rear springs, why not just try it and see how it looks?


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Old Feb 19, 2009 | 01:36 PM
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I agree with Mike on time
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Old Feb 19, 2009 | 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by chupr0kabra
Since it takes all of 10 minutes to swap the rear springs, why not just try it and see how it looks?


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i did just got back, took me longer to jack the car up and put hose around the stock springs then it did to remove them. I'll post up pics after I clean it up for opinions. I'm not sure if i like it or not yet, but hell I havent hit my mufflers or scraped my tires yet. I might even throw my backseat in the car again. Car has a nice rake to it though
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Old Feb 19, 2009 | 02:14 PM
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My rear is HOSE MOD/STOCK SPRINGS.....front is Pro-kit....Bilstein all around.
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Anyone else having traction issues after heater hose. mod? i put LCA brackets on after the heater hose mod. And i still get shitty traction. Not saying thats all my problem. but, i think it has something to do with it.
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I was having a wheel hop problem that I thought had something to do with the hose mod but turns out I just had too much air in the tires....
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