Most of the kits I see advertised show how much drop they will allow you to have, but don't mention the least amount of drop you can have. The few I have seen a range for seem to indicate a minimum of ~.5" drop.

I can not afford to loose any more ground clearance for the winter but would like to lower it maybe an inch or so during the summer for appearance and some minor track use. So anyone know what coilover kit would get you the possibility for the least amount of drop?

 

My JIC's allow stock to slammed.... I take them out for winter though.....

 

ask yourself...

whats the main purpose of getting a coilover? for the looks?

 

^^ No...for a spring/shock combo that is matched to each other...and to allow corner weighting of the suspension

 

you'd have to have it realigned and cornerweighted twice a year with the change, IMO you'd be better off just buying the parts needed to have a complete set of lowering springs/shocks like Mazdaspeed and the OE spring/shock assemblies and just swap them in/out with each other instead. You'd still need to have an alignment with the swap, but that eliminates the cornerweighting PITA/$$$ and you don't really want stiff springs/shocks for winter driving anyways

 

That's what I've been doing......works good. Don't have the PIA stiff suspension and no ground clearance ( it can snow here in the winter ) Not to bad an RE/RE...I have it down to about 2 hours on the driveway...or an hour and 1/2 on a hoist...

 

at least i'm honest and not trying to claim i'm building a mad drift car yo -shrug-

i realize the alignment changes when you drop it... does it really change enough though to warrant a new alignment if you only adjusting an inch or so?

 

Why would you want coilovers on a car driven in the winter?

 

Dropping it an inch changes the alignment quite a bit...the camber will still probably be OK when you raise it for winter...but the toe changes enough to be real hard on the tires and make things kinda difficult to drive I'm afraid you need t do the alignment


^^^ as for the winter thing.......Winter is only 4 months...it's the other 8 I need the coilovers for ( or a new car to drive in the winter )

 

i bought the tein type flex and with that u can lower it up to like, 3 inches i think, and u can also raise it about .2 inches over stock height as well. so u could have the coilovers set to stock height for the winter if u want. adjusting them is wicked easy.

 

How do you feel about buying new tires every year?

 

Are you getting two sets of wheels and tires too? Coilovers are kinda silly without high end summer tires like advans.

 

Agree - you can adjust the full length of the coilover which is very good.

Remember each time you lower your car you need wheel alignment.

I found 20mm front and 15mm rear is very good.