T5OLF

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Hi folks picking up my first Scooby on Wednesday, its a 93 wrx ra. I am looking to lower it about 25mm nothing silly, can anyone suggest a good quality spring?

Cheers

pappasmurf

...Eibach pro kit.
But there are others.

911

Try to get some Whiteline roll bars fitted and a good alignment job by one who knows (not a dealer) and the combination will impress to say the least.
A good set of tyres will be the cherry on top!

Graham.

Dyney

On a budget I'd second Eibach's
I'm stiill running on mine after 4 years and a considerable power increase.

If it's a road car and you still want comfort without breaking the bank I'd go with them every time!

Jonesy24

Got my '05 WRX lowered by that amount using ProDrive spring kit and alignment settings. Cost £500 at dealer. It handles brilliantly and looks just right. (I am on 18's though).

Hakon

Eibach pro kit and KYB adjustable dampers. Fantastic

T5OLF

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Cheers fellers

JTaylor

Eibachs but I'd take take 911s (Grahams) advice re the drop links, arb and allignment.

JTaylor

PS. What sort of condition are the shocks in? Most are past their best after around 40k miles. If you lower the car they will wear out quite rapidly - when you consider the cost of new shocks and springs you may wish to consider spending a bit more on something like ASTs.

T5OLF

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Done 62k so could need shocks, lowered my mk4 Golf with springs only.. ride was bloody rough ended up putting coilovers on. Looking at doing same with the ra. Ride quality from using coilovers does not matter as i can't afford to drive anywere

Plus the wife drives it as its to far me to take everyday on 90 a mile round trip.

JTaylor

Coilovers have received a bad press for a while because people (like me with my Cuscos) have Japenese kit which has the wrong spring rates and inappropriately valved dampers. A product like the ASTs can set to a nice, compliant and comfortable ride upto track spec fairly easily. With the ARB, SDL etc you'd have an awesome suspension set-up which is of course worth 50bhp in itself.

T5OLF

iTrader: (4)

Just on with buying a set of Drummond motorsport coilover's from a Scoobynet user.

Any good?

JTaylor

No idea. I know that if I replace my Cuscos it won't be with anything other then ASTs.

Dyney

DMS coilovers used to be the ones to have
Not sure whether technology has moved on since then, but I think they will be upto the job

T5OLF

iTrader: (4)

Old car, old shock design...should work...maybe

Dyney

DMS were the AST's of 3-4 years ago
They were the shocks most people wanted but couldn't afford

JTaylor

A follow up thread i've started for any future searchers.

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=465213