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Old Oct 6, 2009 | 07:58 PM
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you can drive slammed in atlanta....
my lude is dumped, i wish my s2 was too! car looks good now just lower it, i should take my own advice lol
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Old Oct 6, 2009 | 08:09 PM
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Coilovers? Is the car street only, or what? Coilovers are complete overkill if you don't ever need to adjust the ride height.

Do the economical drop with springs only, it's far less expensive and just as effective. I went with Espelirs, love the look and performance.
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Old Oct 6, 2009 | 08:10 PM
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make sure your car does not have spring spacers
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Old Oct 6, 2009 | 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by GT_NFR,Oct 6 2009, 09:39 PM
Haha. Thanks for the encouragement guys. I can't wait to drop it an inch or two.

-dtmcnamara:
School is coming along great! I'm already looking for jobs and such. Its definitely a good time to be in school right now. Regardless of what you hear, we are NOT coming out of a recession just yet. Hell, even landing an interview even feels like winning the lottery

GL with school, what major are you looking to pursue?
mechanical engineering. should be fun
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Old Oct 6, 2009 | 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by justind,Oct 6 2009, 11:58 PM
you can drive slammed in atlanta....
my lude is dumped, i wish my s2 was too! car looks good now just lower it, i should take my own advice lol
you must not drive it daily then....with almost 1,000 miles a week, its impossible to drive slammed
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Old Oct 6, 2009 | 09:01 PM
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I wouldn't want a slammed car for a daily driver. Nice NFR.
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Old Oct 6, 2009 | 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by FearlessFife,Oct 6 2009, 11:09 PM
Coilovers? Is the car street only, or what? Coilovers are complete overkill if you don't ever need to adjust the ride height.

Do the economical drop with springs only, it's far less expensive and just as effective. I went with Espelirs, love the look and performance.
I don't want to have a debate on this but I don't completely agree with the solution of swapping out springs. I've done a good bit of research on this and it seems like most springs are made for the early ap1 damping rates, with the exception of eibachs which seemed to have been developed for '02-'03 based on the springs rate.

with that said, replacing springs w/o switching to AP1 struts is counter productive becase a spring-mass-damper system should be designed with eachother in mind. Having springs with the incorrect springs rate will over or under-damp your system. The effects of this is definitely debatable, but I'm anal and would rather just go with a setup that compliments eachother.
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Old Oct 7, 2009 | 01:43 AM
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Old Oct 7, 2009 | 07:40 AM
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Get some used coilovers and scrape away, thats what I say
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