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Old 10-24-2006, 07:30 PM
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H-Sport springs not dropping enough?

I installed a set of H-Sports on my 05 MCS on Sunday and everything went well, but the drop is a whole lot less in the front than the back. I'll post a pic tomorrow, but there is a 1 finger gap in the front and a 2 finger gap in the front.

The rear drop is perfect, but the front is weird. here's a pic of kenchan's ride, which is what I'm hoping for. how much did other people's front springs settle. is it possible I assembled them wrong?

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Old 10-24-2006, 07:33 PM
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Springs have to "Settle" this can take days to weeks to accomplish. My car didn't totally drop for i'd say about a week and with a full tank of gas in her.
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your springs will settle a little more.. hard to say how much exactly but it will. your front will have larger gap still (if you have gap ocd like i do you'll never be satisfied w/ springs alone) in comparison to the back. i personally was never happy w/ the gap. if you park next to a stocker you'll see how much lower you really are but the gap still drove me crazy.
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you just need to let the springs settle for about a week or so.

here's a nother shot. this is wat my car looks like today with the SSR's.
remember too that R90's have conservative offsets +48 and running narrow
SP9000 tires... that alone will make the ride look lowered a tad more.


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xizor- do me a favor and change the picture link to the one i sent you
by PM. geocities is very narrow and and will easily overflow it.
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