Chris_Geezer
Member
My springs turned up this week after being messed about with delivery times... 2 days quoted turned into 2 weeks.
Anyway i went for PI -30mm springs. I've used PI springs on previous cars and have had a very good experience with them. They are a progressively wound spring, unlike some others at a similar price.
As we all know new springs take a little while to settle in to their full drop. I measured before fitting, then once fitted I drove up the road and back with harsh accelleration and harsh braking to ensure my shocks settled back in and then re-measured. They have given me approximately a 24mm drop front and back. I will take another measurement in a week or so once I've used the car a few times, but only expect another couple mm at most.
All in all it was a nice simple process to fit these and took about 1hr 45min on my driveway in the sun. And believe it or not was actually a pleasure to work on such a simple process.
I'll try to get a pic parked in the same place as I did previously and post both together on here so you can see the difference.
Next step is to get the rest of the cash together for some staggered wheels.
Does anyone know what offset I should be looking for front and rear? I'm probably going to order some from the states as they are about half the price of the UK ones from what I'm seeing.
Anyway i went for PI -30mm springs. I've used PI springs on previous cars and have had a very good experience with them. They are a progressively wound spring, unlike some others at a similar price.
As we all know new springs take a little while to settle in to their full drop. I measured before fitting, then once fitted I drove up the road and back with harsh accelleration and harsh braking to ensure my shocks settled back in and then re-measured. They have given me approximately a 24mm drop front and back. I will take another measurement in a week or so once I've used the car a few times, but only expect another couple mm at most.
All in all it was a nice simple process to fit these and took about 1hr 45min on my driveway in the sun. And believe it or not was actually a pleasure to work on such a simple process.
I'll try to get a pic parked in the same place as I did previously and post both together on here so you can see the difference.
Next step is to get the rest of the cash together for some staggered wheels.
Does anyone know what offset I should be looking for front and rear? I'm probably going to order some from the states as they are about half the price of the UK ones from what I'm seeing.
- I'll have a read later and see if its something I can tackle or not. I've done loads of brake/suspension work on vintage cars, but nothing on a new ones.