well today we worked on my car again.... last week i had alex swap out my front springs to stock. for some reason when we switched them out it didnt do anything. i was a bit puzzled and was thinkin that my shocks could be bad. with all that stress from the aftermarket springs probably did a number on the shocks. so i decided to post on supraforums for a set of aftermarket shocks. so i got a couple responses and the one i found appealing were the Bilsteins. i dealed with the guy and he was able to send it two day air.
today b-rad helped me out today. we removed the front shock and spring. he showed me a pretty cool trick which didn't require the use of a spring compressor. we put the shock and spring in a tire while i was standing on the spring. this allows the spring not to move. i was a bit hesistant at first but it worked out in the end. once we finished both sides we dropped the car and the car was definitely raised back to stock... you can see the wheel gap. so now i know we installed the lowering springs incorrectly. good thing im going back to stock so i wont have to worry about scrapping all the time.
** mental note: the bigger fatter springs up in front and the thin ones in the back.
who cares... im going coilovers in the end!!
13 years ago