Apex Lowering Springs
#1
Apex Lowering Springs
Hi,
I am relatively new to subaru world. I have a 2001 bugeye. I have just installed apex 40mm lowering springs with standard dampers ( apparently shorter ones are needed), however my front coil springs are are almost fully compressed when lowered to the floor off the jack. i may have 1/2cm clearance between coils if I am being generous.
Surely that can't be right????
Can someone please advise me if this normal.
Thanks
I am relatively new to subaru world. I have a 2001 bugeye. I have just installed apex 40mm lowering springs with standard dampers ( apparently shorter ones are needed), however my front coil springs are are almost fully compressed when lowered to the floor off the jack. i may have 1/2cm clearance between coils if I am being generous.
Surely that can't be right????
Can someone please advise me if this normal.
Thanks
#3
That's the front spring. I have checked with the manufacturer that they are the right way round for piece of mind, i know the fronts are shorter than the rears but don't understand why the spring has compressed that much unless the dampers are weak and collapsed hence the spring being so compressed???
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#9
So why sell 40mm lowering springs if it can't be done with dampers and fully functional suspension then??? Seems made. How do I get round this?? Or isn't there a way round it. Thanks
#10
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The problem is looks v ride height.
Lowering an Impreza on struts is problematic.
Lowering the ride height, lowers the roll centre by twice as much.
Below is the optimum Prodrive sport strut set-up for a daily driver. You could go lower, if you never drive quickly on B-roads.
Prodrive did wrx and sti springs for the bugeye. If you have wrx struts you have to use wrx springs. Sti springs for sti dampers - they're not interchangeable.
You can use blob/hawk wrx springs on a wrx bug, but you have to use the blob/hawk top hat and a scooby921 spacer, on the rears.
Or, use wrx blob/hawk rear strut complete.
Good springs:
https://www.scoobynet.com/group-buys...mited-run.html
Lowering an Impreza on struts is problematic.
Lowering the ride height, lowers the roll centre by twice as much.
Below is the optimum Prodrive sport strut set-up for a daily driver. You could go lower, if you never drive quickly on B-roads.
Prodrive did wrx and sti springs for the bugeye. If you have wrx struts you have to use wrx springs. Sti springs for sti dampers - they're not interchangeable.
You can use blob/hawk wrx springs on a wrx bug, but you have to use the blob/hawk top hat and a scooby921 spacer, on the rears.
Or, use wrx blob/hawk rear strut complete.
Good springs:
https://www.scoobynet.com/group-buys...mited-run.html
Last edited by 2pot; 13 June 2015 at 01:07 PM.
#11
What he said ^^^ about the spacers. We do these also, but in this country and for much much less. http://www.pedders.co.uk/strut-fitti...t_p4512840.htm
We also do lowering coils, but they wont give you 40mm.
We also do lowering coils, but they wont give you 40mm.
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