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post Nov 12, 2002 - 8:54 PM
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Before my car went into the body shop, I had some super high coilovers installed on it. They slammed the car so that it was probably about 2-2.5" below stock height, and the ride was really bouncy and bottomed out on everything. Last night I raised it up once I got the car out of the body shop, so now it's about stock height. The car doesn't bottom out, but the ride is still pretty bouncy though. It's definitely a lot bouncier than stock, even though it's about at stock height. It makes me wish that I hadn't lowered the car at all in the first place, at least not until I could afford new shocks to handle the drop.

I want to get some new shocks fairly soon, and I was considering Koni Yellows, so I did some research and found that they cost $300-400 just to install them! I was wondering if any shock is going to cost that much to install, or if it's just the Konis. Also, is there an alternative to the Koni Yellows that provides close to the same handling, but without adjustability(Or the higher price tag.) Thanks!


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post Nov 18, 2002 - 6:17 PM
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i lowered my car this past weekend and it is hell on the road. i know for a fact that it is not the coilovers. i got the ground control springs everyone is talking about on ebay. the ride is so rough on our cars because the shocks. if u get a chance to look at the shock, see how much of the actual shock that you can see. i think i only have about 2 inches that my shock can take a bump with until it bottoms out. this will be the same with any other shock, but the higher performance shocks will have a higher density inside the shock which will take more of the hit than factory.

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- Coomer   Lowering Woes   Nov 12, 2002 - 8:54 PM
- - west_minist   Your prob. is unique to some point. It sounds lik...   Nov 12, 2002 - 9:25 PM
- - 1bwilson   QUOTE (west_minist @ Nov 12 2002, 07:25 PM)Yo...   Nov 12, 2002 - 9:49 PM
- - Cragspider   Ok note to every body. The stock struts are KYB...   Nov 12, 2002 - 10:58 PM
- - trdcelica99   are the super highs the ones on ebay that are blue...   Nov 12, 2002 - 11:01 PM
- - JWalk1818   Ok Well I have doen the most terriable thing LOL a...   Nov 12, 2002 - 11:40 PM
- - Coomer   QUOTE (trdcelica99 @ Nov 12 2002, 09:01 PM)ar...   Nov 12, 2002 - 11:53 PM
- - west_minist   Remember that lower spring have a high spring rat...   Nov 13, 2002 - 8:08 AM
- - Coomer   QUOTE (west_minist @ Nov 13 2002, 06:08 AM)Re...   Nov 13, 2002 - 8:13 AM
- - 3TST   FYI I'm looking into either: - a set of Koni a...   Nov 13, 2002 - 9:10 AM
- - west_minist   QUOTE (Coomer @ Nov 13 2002, 06:13 AM)QUOTE (...   Nov 13, 2002 - 11:14 AM
- - JWalk1818   Whats a good set of coilovers to get? Like a reson...   Nov 13, 2002 - 11:39 AM
- - west_minist   Groundcontrol, JIC and others. This my believe. ...   Nov 13, 2002 - 12:06 PM
- - 1bwilson   QUOTE (JWalk1818 @ Nov 13 2002, 09:39 AM)What...   Nov 13, 2002 - 1:36 PM
- - west_minist   GC us a very good low cost suspension. Suspension...   Nov 13, 2002 - 1:44 PM
- - mynzeyes   yeah, i can atest to the Ground Controls being a l...   Nov 13, 2002 - 2:47 PM
- - west_minist   Say it.   Nov 13, 2002 - 3:14 PM
- - JWalk1818   GROUND CONTROLS on Eaby are like 155, is it the re...   Nov 15, 2002 - 2:03 AM
- - west_minist   QUOTE (JWalk1818 @ Nov 15 2002, 12:03 AM)GROU...   Nov 15, 2002 - 5:21 AM
- - JWalk1818   Heres the LINK: Dropzone   Nov 15, 2002 - 12:57 PM
- - 1_Winged_Angel   Those are DZ's, not GC's   Nov 15, 2002 - 1:08 PM
- - JWalk1818   OH Crap I misread im sorry my bad! Well are th...   Nov 15, 2002 - 1:16 PM
- - 1_Winged_Angel   The problem with DZ's are you get what you pay...   Nov 15, 2002 - 1:32 PM
- - west_minist   QUOTE (JWalk1818 @ Nov 15 2002, 10:57 AM)Here...   Nov 15, 2002 - 1:34 PM
- - west_minist   To combat noise, some manufactures uses the bumper...   Nov 15, 2002 - 1:37 PM
- - celicaBEst   those look really good jason... i wanna lower my ...   Nov 15, 2002 - 2:34 PM
- - 1_Winged_Angel   Gc's are the way to go...even if they are a li...   Nov 15, 2002 - 3:02 PM
- - CDNSLEEKA   Why not try Eibach springs,SportLines 1.5 drop and...   Nov 16, 2002 - 9:57 PM
- - 94celicaguy   i lowered my car this past weekend and it is hell ...   Nov 18, 2002 - 6:17 PM
- - Coomer   QUOTE (94celicaguy @ Nov 18 2002, 04:17 PM)i ...   Nov 18, 2002 - 8:17 PM
- - ghostdog   Just wanted to mention that it seems like the spri...   Nov 19, 2002 - 12:11 AM
- - Coomer   QUOTE (gh0st_d0g @ Nov 18 2002, 10:11 PM)Just...   Nov 19, 2002 - 12:30 AM
- - ghostdog   QUOTE (Coomer @ Nov 18 2002, 10:30 PM)Do you ...   Nov 19, 2002 - 12:42 AM


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