My car is old and the springs and shocks are shot, so now is the time for an upgrade. It's a convertible so I'm more concerned with ride height and comfortability rather than tightness and performance. I want the car to look sleek and poised, but not slammed and white boi.
I like H&R sport springs, and I like those cheap JOM coilovers. And I like KYB shocks because they aren't ridiculously priced like bilsteins are. What I don't know is if I went with a coilover setup, how the shocks are supposed to react to being slammed one season, and then ix'd the next (not that I'd go that extreme, but just in case I wanted to). How are they supposed to deal?
So unless the internals of the shock won't bottom out under the what, 2" difference between stock ride height and where I'd want to go, I'm wondering how to compensate for the difference.
Why not cut the metal rod end of the strut by the maximum amount you'd want to lower the car, have it and rethreaded, and then make up spacers out of cut sections of pipe or whatever else would fit (and be sturdy) inside the strut assembly below the bottom of the strut. The spacers would be made in preset sections of how much you'd want to lower the car. Saw 1", 1.5", 2" etc. Right? Or is there an easier way of doing it?
I see people saying "you'll blow your shocks out, kid!" and others saying "I've gone eight months, which is 1/30th the age of the car with no problems!" So I'm really looking for insight before I go and chop off the ends of some $30 shocks and wait to see what happens.
I mean either way it's an improvement of what I have now. So what's the consensus?
I like H&R sport springs, and I like those cheap JOM coilovers. And I like KYB shocks because they aren't ridiculously priced like bilsteins are. What I don't know is if I went with a coilover setup, how the shocks are supposed to react to being slammed one season, and then ix'd the next (not that I'd go that extreme, but just in case I wanted to). How are they supposed to deal?
So unless the internals of the shock won't bottom out under the what, 2" difference between stock ride height and where I'd want to go, I'm wondering how to compensate for the difference.
Why not cut the metal rod end of the strut by the maximum amount you'd want to lower the car, have it and rethreaded, and then make up spacers out of cut sections of pipe or whatever else would fit (and be sturdy) inside the strut assembly below the bottom of the strut. The spacers would be made in preset sections of how much you'd want to lower the car. Saw 1", 1.5", 2" etc. Right? Or is there an easier way of doing it?
I see people saying "you'll blow your shocks out, kid!" and others saying "I've gone eight months, which is 1/30th the age of the car with no problems!" So I'm really looking for insight before I go and chop off the ends of some $30 shocks and wait to see what happens.
I mean either way it's an improvement of what I have now. So what's the consensus?
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