can anyone help me to identify these springs?

[andyling]

suppose to be all TRD for ae86.

cleaned them but no writings or code.


Rear



Front

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[wordnz]

front looks kinda like dobi, going by the colour.

[rollaholic]

in my experience TRD springs are colored by rating, there will probably be a chart somewhere that tells you what color means what.

those look like a random assortment of generic aftermarkets

edit - here ya go

http://trdparts.jp/english/list_race_spring.html

[Rob_GTZ]

Front springs look to be Dobi, so probably fitted since your car has been here in NZ, certainly not TRD Springs anyway.

What's the diameter of the coils on the rear springs?

[andyling]

don't know yet, will find out soon.

DOBI? is it good or bad?

also, I am after racing springs all around and front shocks all from trd.

what's the cost like if I got them from yahoo japan?

Looks like I got hammered hard like you bought your last car rob LOL.

[1I1]

Rears aren't cut by any chance? Just that I would've thought the coils will be close together on the last two turns and the end doesn't look like a clean cut

[andyling]

don't know to be honest.

It isn't that low so looks ohk.

yeh.. gutted

oh well, lucky it still has the rear trd shocks...

[rollaholic]

to get any kind of decent low out of it, and retain captive springs you need to get a bit creative with your shock selection.

honestly, adjustables will save you alot of potentially expensive headaches.

[andyling]

Yeh, my rear shocks are trds.

not sure if they were adjustable tho. I got told they are.

find the serial number soon.

[d1 mule]

rollaholic means body adjustable not dampening lingling. beas option are eith HSD/Driftworks CS2 or BC. no pissing about etc

[andyling]

right will look into that too. not sure what you just talked about tho.

[d1 mule]

i mean this
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 074040.htm

infinitely adjustable height preload and dampening.

where as the TRD spring over shock is only adjustable dampening so the height is fixed unless you cut the springs (illegal)

[andyling]

man, This is awesome.

I know cut springs are illegal. the guy is a xxxx. I mean few hundy for all springs, come on~!

anyway, I am trying to keep everything toyota. so I do wanna all trds.

but the price for the whole set is really CHEAP!

where are they made of?

[rollaholic]

those BCs are great value as far as i can tell. i believe they are made in korea? the great thing about that particular set is they can bolt straight into the car, no pissing around with old spindles, or switching to a coilover setup at the back. D1 do you know if they are camber adjustable at the front? bit hard to see in the pic and the ad doesnt mention.

the only draw back to height adjustable suspension is needing a low volume cert.

i spent absolutely ages dicking around with shocks and springs on my hachi, convinced i could get the look / handling i wanted without spending the earth.

wasted hours changing shit out, and spent more than what adjustables would have cost me in the first place. and frankly it still was not exactly what i had envisioned. if you dont want to go the adjustable route, feel free to PM me for details of where i ended up on mine.

[andyling]

Cheers mate.

yeh I am on the edge of that, but the my purpose was keeping the car original.. so hard to convince me to get the after market suspension.

PM sent.

[JustinSpiderholden]

Andy did you even inspect the vechile before purchasing?

Or did you jsut see an 86 with lots of TRD bit for sale and went here's 30k I want?

[andyling]

Andy did you even inspect the vechile before purchasing?

Or did you jsut see an 86 with lots of TRD bit for sale and went here's 30k I want?

yeh, you are probably right, I have looked rust, lsd, engine,ecu, sway bars, gear box etc.

overlooked the supension springs etc.

[andyling]

the ae86 forum boys told me it looks like bestex springs for 86s.

so could be that.



it seens like they are good stuff.

[d1 mule]

D1 do you know if they are camber adjustable at the front? bit hard to see in the pic and the ad doesnt mention.

yup def come with camber plates in the front

[rollaholic]

what ae86 forums are these?

i never heard of bestex, they look like dobis to me too