Which one? Skunk2 or GC Adjustable Coilovers?

Where did you read this?

Sleeves are on - bottoming out is only on the rear - Front is great! Got the new rear 340lb/in springs delivered today - hopefully get those installed this wknd.

Still working out the camber...

 

a Bit more than the $350 i paid....

Pretty....but until i've wore these out or see the need to spend that much dough, these are fine.

 

haha i've seen the youtube video of that car - the photo makes it hard to believe but the video is stooopid. Ridiculous...

 

I disagree that all springs give you a bouncy ride and I've lowered plenty of cars. I agree however the 'bouncy' look is seen a lot of ricer cars - usually because the dampening system - oem shocks/struts can't handle the higher spring rate - usually from cheaper spring mfrs. This was taken into affect when Ground Control designed the sleeves with a shorter spring but close to stock spring rate.

The GC rear springs are Eibach rated at 250lbs/in as I originally bought them - from what I've read - designed to give you close to OEM ride but with improved handling. In fact before i lowered the rear to the lowest setting the car didn't bottom out and it didn't bounce around like I was "driving on cobblestones"

Nice drawing - but I would hope anyone lowering the car would understand that if you "lower your car you reduce struts travel" - with oem spring rate but shorter springs, this can cause your car to bottom the struts and possibly blow them out. This is why i'm going to a higher rate of spring 340lbs/in because I don't want to bottom out - but w/o changing my rear struts I could end up with a bouncy ride. But this being considered if you read my earlier post of wanting to swap the rear struts for aftermarket Corollas, Koni Yellow, Bilstein HD or Tokico HTS. These are all stronger shocks capable of handling the stronger spring rate - reducing any 'bouncy feel' that might come from the stiffer springs - than the OEM KYB struts that came on my Touring model. Also pretty sure your NOT adjusting the Spring rate as you suggested - your only adjusting the Shock dampening system. Hince most adjustable coilovers including the one you posted - you adjust the shock - not the spring. The spring rate stays the same - what your adjusting is the how fast or how slow the shock slows down the spring.

Agreed at the current setup, sleeves at the lowest setting, the KYBs will probably blow soon, but their cheap and I will eventually swap them out. But by increasing the spring rate, making the springs stiffer, harder for the car to compress them, the car has a less chance of bottoming out...but I will suffer from most likely a bouncy ride in the back because the OEM struts won't be able to slow or keep up with the stiffer springs.

 

True. thats why until the new springs and most likely new rear struts are in place, I will keep my car at normal public highway speeds - and off any coned courses.

 

Looking at this for the Front:

Eibach Springs Alignment Camber Kit - Front - Pro-Alignment - Front + / -1.75

 

(Right) 340lb/in up from the previously ordered (Left) 250lb/in - Quite beefier - no issues bottoming out - nor bouncy

 

Hard to recommend anything other than what I have experience with. The Ground Control Sleeves that I recently installed are great for the $$$ but a full Coil-over setup like the Megans with new shocks/struts would be best. The stock struts on my 2008Touring were/are KYB so there was no point of buying the same strut. At some point if I find that my stock shocks are failling or the camber on the current setup isn't what I want - I'll probably splurge for the full setup. I don't hear many complaints about the Megans from users that have them installed on other makes/models.

 

Wilsid is referring 'Taking the back apart like so - in 1 piece"



These 2 red bolts inside and the 1 yellow is removed from outside/under the car - All 14mm.



Keep us posted on the Megans! I'm curious to know of the quality and performance.

 

Awesome! Post some picture when you have the time.