Anyone running these?

 

Damn that is a beautiful ride your sigpic doesn't do it justice!

 

thanks!!!!

 

NM springs and the stock Sport dampers work good enough for me for now. Fixes the fore and aft pitching under braking and acceleration. Following the instructions and cutting the bump stops gets rid of the pinball machine like handling. Car is much more composed over irregularities and it was only $220.00. No way would I go back to stock height, even on these horrible LA roads. Do it, you'll love it! And if they don't warranty my struts . . . (when is the last time you actually tried to warranty a strut anyway) I'll just get some Bilstien Sports anyway.

 

Do you have a pictures with the TSW's on?

 

If you look in my gallery there are a couple pictures of 'before & after' Mach V springs.

Hoopty

 

Thanks, man!

 

Lowered on H&R coilovers. 1.5" in the front, 1.3" in the rear. A little rake is a good thing. Wheels are 18x8 tenzos. Wheel gap is no existent. It rides a lot better and looks a little meaner from straight on. I'll post pics soon.

 

Which H&R? Street or RSS?

 

I lowered mine 1.1" F and R with AST 5100 coilovers and Hyperco 450 in/lb F & R, which is a full race setup. Also put on Vorshlag Front Camber plates and rear pillow mounts. This is my third attempt at finding a decent suspension and I would highly recommend them. Great ride on the street and fantastic improvement in the corners. Only issue is it is a little costly.

The ASTs can be lowered anywhere from 1" to 1.75" conservatively. I think anything over 1.25" gets into some suspension geometry considerations.

 

Streets.

 

Awesome..sorry for so may questions, but did you have to use spacers? Stock or aftermarket wheels?

Also, can you go raise it up more or are at the top?

 

First I had Mach V springs, then H&R Street coilovers and now BC Racing coilovers. Lowered somewhere in the 2"-3" inch range. Probably closer to 3".

BC have definitely been the best so far. Love the look and handling, could never go back.

 

Wow, creeve, that is pretty low. I tore up two CVs and I was not as low as that.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63200340@N06/5747383539/

I can't figure out how to post pics without getting red x's.........

I have it set to all the factory settings (camber, caster, etc).

Yes it can go up, but I might lower the back.

I have not had any issues as far as the coilovers go. As far as ride quality goes, it is a little stiffer, less body roll. I went on a 120 mile ride through the Malibu Canyons and it was a blast!!!

The only issue I had was the wheels were a little out of balance, causing shaking. Rebalanced the wheels and all is well.

 

Been driving the car lowered for almost 40k. No problems yet.

No can do, your flickr account is set to private, which might be the problem.

 

Should be up now. ....

 

No spacers yet. I might use a 5mm spicer, but I don't have any clearance issues so I don't see a need at the moment.

 

My husband won't let me lower my MINI :(

 

H&R sport, 15 mil spacers.

 

Tore mine up both times at Watkins Glen. Put on the new coils, set to max height which was 2.5 " lowered and tore out the CVs during the first run (within the first 1/2 hour). Put on a brand new OEM CV and it did exactly the same thing again, also during the first run. Raised it up to 1.1" drop with the new ASTs and no issue after 3.5 hours on open track. Could not figure what is wrong except perhaps it was too low and the geometry change tore out the CVs each time because of the high stress environment.