The risks: What are they?, Lowering Springs. Options

[Syaoran]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/90-93-94-99-TOYOTA...r#ht_4134wt_952


How/why can you make something that works for so cheap? Discuss e-Bay springs!

[Syaoran]

your logic is flawed everywhere. you dont need anything at all other than to put gas in your car and enjoy it as it is. springs wont give you anything positive handling wise, and if you cant afford a set of coilovers then you cant afford a turbo, or an ecu and even if you did, you'll only serve to increase your power and decrease your handling. well done.

See, that's the problem. You think that if I don't want to buy coilovers it is because I can't afford them. I haven't said I can't buy them, I just said I'd rather not. I'm not looking to IMPROVE anything, I'm looking to fix what's broken. All my struts are bad, my endlinks are bad and my front springs were heated by the previous owner. My car is already plugged to an EMS (MS-II) and I already have a wideband, too.

For daily driving, most coilovers will rattle my teeth out, so I'd rather an oem-like ride, with a sporty drop. It's not like BMWs come with a 3" drop, they come with a low-enough ride height to be sporty and comfortable at the same time. That's what I want, not a track setup on the ****ty streets of Puerto Rico.

I can see where your coming from, but in my opinion, adding coiloevers would be modding and fixing.
Don't forget with lowering speings you will mos tlikely need new top mounts as well.

Adding coilovers is too expensive ATM, for what my needs are. While one might think that I will end up paying about the same for a well-done spring setup as a Coilover setup, in reality the long term fact is that when coilovers go bad (and they WILL in my roads) I'll have to buy a brand new set because most are not serviceable. The ones that are, are way too expensive to do so. I would rather spend money on Bilstein/Koni struts/Ground Control coils than any cheaper coilover set.