spring options for AE85

[AE85.6]

just wondering what ideas people have as to what to use, at the moment it is stock height, my parts ae85 parked next to it has king springs and is only slightly lower (20mm roughly) no superlows made for them and i was hoping for something a little stiffer anyway, so what are my options for brands that give a bigger drop and possibly a higher kg/mm rate ? otherwise mite just pm TrdMan and see what he can offer,

[Voodoo]

well dont use doby's they dont lower sweet * all , yeah id recommend TRD springs but there are others , try a search on the forum, it has been covered before, one thing though u might need to do is shortin your shocks depending on what u have

[AE85.6]

ye i am replacing all 4 shox anyway so will get shortened ones to fit new springs and keep everything happy and captive, aparently trd springs only drop 30mm of the ride height, so anyone know of another brand that has a bigger drop ??? would it be worth compressing some already lower springs or is everyone gonna say get an angle grinder handy and lop a coil off hehe ?

[AE85.6]

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[DRFTIN]

i just put some jamex (i think) ones in the front of the AE85 and they are pretty low, around 100mm off the ground i think

[AE85.6]

hmmm sounds good 100mm off the ground to what point on the car ???

[AE85.6]

rang jamex and aparently they only ones they can do are a 35mm drop ??? anyone know a brand with bigger drop ? other wise might just have to chop or further compress something instead

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[PumpN]

why not use linear rate race springs, like trd coils, and chop them down to your own preference? (using shorter shocks to keep them captive/legal) just dont go too nutty with the angle grinder otherwise you will run out of shock travel and you will have issues with roll centre in regard to the front control arms, which you will if you go to low regardless of what sort of setup you are using be it adj. coilovers or progressive rate lowered springs

if your going to go to the effort then its worth looking into converting to short stroke front shocks, you will lose at least an inch in ride height (25mm-40mm depending on shocks) before you wind down your adj. platforms or chop coils, the real advantage though is that the shock works better with the shorter spring, there is a very good write up on club4ag.com

if you have no intention of moding your car for serious performance, you just want it to sit a lot closer to the ground and get rid of most of the gap between the tyre and the guard then dont dismiss the jamex progressive rates, for the money they do a pretty good job and they dont look half bad, a mate has them fitted to his car and it looks the business, he is however last i heard planning to ditch them and use trd race springs not because the jamex's aren't alright but because like the rest of the car things are getting a bit more serious, gap between the guard is about an inch with 14's and the car sits low but legal, speedbumps and driveways are not a problem