Let's see some pics. Anybody with a before and after maybe?

 

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Anyone?

 

nope. . .

 

hmmmmm well that's a downer

 

the s-techs would be a better choice since it's drop is small like the h-sports. the h-tech drop would be so small that you probably won't be
able to tell.

 

Hmmm well I thought that the h-tech's we about a half an inch while the s-techs and h-sports were about a full inch.

Only reason I'm wondering is it seems to be the difference between needing camber adjustment and not. As well as needing aftermarket shocks. Are a lot of people running the h-sports or s-techs without camber adjustment or aftermarket shocks? By searching it seems slightly hard to find a consensus.

 

I've been curious about these as well. Not for the look, but as an upgrade from my standard (non-SSP) Cooper springs. I know it says S (not Cooper) on the Tein site, but our springs are interchangeable, right? The spring rate should be more like SSP springs. A half-inch drop can't hurt. And maybe these would work okay with Koni FSDs. They're not stock, but they're close to the JCW drop.

 

i guess my point was, if you're going to drop it, drop it like you mean it (i
don't mean slammed). otherwise you're going to look at it later and
scratch your head, and then buy a different spring with lower drop.

if you only want a slight drop, i recommend keeping it stock. the trouble
of changing springs does not equate the mild drop.

 

Yeah, I know what you mean. But I'm coming from a highly modified car, and although one of the reasons I'm switching cars is to get away from the problems with a lowered car, I still don't think I can deal with stock height :D

 

Just spent 3 hours trying to get my spring install and I couldn't do it ...gonna leave it to the profesional

 

which part did you get stuck on? i can think of 2 areas:

1. you didn't crack loose the nut on the piston shaft while on the car (front).

2. you didn't turn the rotor to collapse the front strut off the car after loosening.

it's not hard to do.

 

kenchan, can you elaborate on #2? I have done the spring install-reinstall 3 times, and think i might understand what you mean, but just want to make sure..thanks

 

That gota be it #1 and #2 ..... cus I got the spring compress but it just wont come loose .

 

Some of the strut nuts have way too much torque applied. My technique for those is to use liquid wrench and let it sit for an hour, place the strut on its side, use a block of wood to act as a stop against the allen wrench, and a long breaker on the end of the strut socket.

Back to the H-Techs, sorry no pictures; as for looks they lower the car evenly front and rear. The gap between the wheel trim is even over the entire arch, plenty of ground clearance, about ¾ inch drop after a couple thousand miles. These are very good compromise springs although a little less compliant than Alta springs which I preferred over the Teins. That stiffness (must be more than claimed rates) makes them suitable for hard charging, braking, and high speed drops into the hole; I never hit the bump stops with the H-Tech springs.

Someone commented above about using them with the Koni FSDs, if you did that it would be all gold, cool visual effect. However, the Konis are stiff (low amplitude damping is high) over smooth pavement so that combo would probably have your eyeballs jiggling in their sockets on the interstate.

 

yep, after you have the tower nuts off the mounts and the bottom
bolts off the strut (and unclipped the abs line, etc) a lot of people were
complaining that they couldn't get the strut off the car.

i just grabbed the front brake rotor and turned it cw/ccw until the
strut collapsed out of the holder on the bottom.

i remember people saying that the driver side was a real pita.... on mine,
it was no different from the passenger side.

 

ok thats what i thought you meant....was just making sure.

I had had trouble the first 2 times...but on the third time (koni install) the wiggling worked.

 

I was able to get the strut drop but couldn't get the spring to compress enough to get the damn thing out ..... so I decided to give up after 3 hour of trying, two diffrent spring compressor and 2 trip to sear :-(

 

you don't need to compress the spring while loosely on your car.
just turn the rotor cw/ccw and the unit should just collapse right out.

Im assuming that you have both front wheels off the ground, btw...