Eibach lowering spring
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Eibach lowering spring I have a chance to get a set of lowering springs from Eibach for $50. Are these worth getting even at this price point? I can only make out 3870.002 as a part number on the spring. There is another number, possibly 1600572 but it's hard to read. They only have around 8k miles on them. I will be replacing the original shocks in the process. What is recommended for good balance of handling and road comfort even with lowering it? How do they ride lowered compared to stock height? I'm looking at a set of Koni's SRT.T's at the moment. Also,is an adjustable torque arm mandatory when lowering these cars?
2000 Trans am M6
75k miles.
2000 Trans am M6
75k miles.
I just got BMR lowering springs with the STR.T and love it. Ride and handeling is much much better than the old DeCarbons. For $50 I'd give them a shot. If you don't like them you could sell them for more than that probably
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Those springs are going to drop you closer to 2.5"-3". When I had them ground clearance was a big issue and I'd scrape on almost every medium to large bump.
They do ride pretty well and handle pretty nice, they are soft enough to drive around in but will be stiff enough to handle at the track pretty nicely. Here's some picts of my bird with those springs. I still had the stock spring isolators and also wrapped the end of both ends of the rear springs with heater hose to prop it up just a tad more.
They do ride pretty well and handle pretty nice, they are soft enough to drive around in but will be stiff enough to handle at the track pretty nicely. Here's some picts of my bird with those springs. I still had the stock spring isolators and also wrapped the end of both ends of the rear springs with heater hose to prop it up just a tad more.
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Those springs are going to drop you closer to 2.5"-3". When I had them ground clearance was a big issue and I'd scrape on almost every medium to large bump.
They do ride pretty well and handle pretty nice, they are soft enough to drive around in but will be stiff enough to handle at the track pretty nicely. Here's some picts of my bird with those springs. I still had the stock spring isolators and also wrapped the end of both ends of the rear springs with heater hose to prop it up just a tad more.
They do ride pretty well and handle pretty nice, they are soft enough to drive around in but will be stiff enough to handle at the track pretty nicely. Here's some picts of my bird with those springs. I still had the stock spring isolators and also wrapped the end of both ends of the rear springs with heater hose to prop it up just a tad more.
Where are you measuring from?
There shouldn't even be enough travel to achieve that drop in the back without resting on the bumpstops.
Is that your car in the pictures with the eibach prokit? That is roughly a 1.5" drop in those pics(unless you had a really really tall sitting factory height car for the before measurements). Sportlines that drop roughly 2"+ end up tucking the tires under the fenders on some cars, you can still see space between your fenders and tires.
If you haven't bought the springs from him yet, do some research on here first. I believe I remember Sam Strano explaining about them in a thread somewhere. I had eibachs on my car when I bought it and all the stories I've read where the rear springs start sagging notoriously were true. My rears started getting worse in the short time I had it and I have all the documentation from when they were installed on the car at 274mi to when I purchased it at 11,613mi.
So it's not like they got driven on much and I do understand that they were still on there from 02-14. It may just be a certain series of them and I lucked out and got the sagging series, idk. I just wanted to give you a heads up so you can do some research first. I guess at $50 though, you could always buy them and if they start sagging in the rear, just replace the rears with a different brand.
Edit: Like mentioned before, the Koni str.t are a good all around budget shock, I've been running them for about a year now and have no complaints at all.
So it's not like they got driven on much and I do understand that they were still on there from 02-14. It may just be a certain series of them and I lucked out and got the sagging series, idk. I just wanted to give you a heads up so you can do some research first. I guess at $50 though, you could always buy them and if they start sagging in the rear, just replace the rears with a different brand.
Edit: Like mentioned before, the Koni str.t are a good all around budget shock, I've been running them for about a year now and have no complaints at all.