Lowering...

[classicswede]

Is yours just a turbo estate or a sport model?

[CLH92]

Yeah... just a 2.3 turbo estate (celebration)

[MiniNinjaRob]

Sport models are 15mm ish lower than a standard turbo so you should get the full 40mm drop. The Kileen ones don’t sag. Why would they? Mine certainly haven’t after 18months with occasional heavy loads.

[classicswede]

Originally Posted by CLH92

Yeah... just a 2.3 turbo estate (celebration)

Full 40mm in that case but you do need to allow for how much the original springs have sagged from new.

I do also have 50 and 70mm lowering springs

[MiniNinjaRob]

Originally Posted by classicswede

Full 40mm in that case but you do need to allow for how much the original springs have sagged from new.

I do also have 50 and 70mm lowering springs

If you want to improve the look a bit but make it handle a lot better but still keep a “stock” look go for 40mm I reckon. If you want the proper lowered look I’d go for ClassicSwedes 70mm drop. Should still be ok over most speed bumps as the ground clearance is pretty high on these things but it’ll look amazing. I wish I’d gone for 70mm but my wife drives the car a lot and might not be as thoughtful about the bumps as I would be.

[Casheye]

Originally Posted by MiniNinjaRob

If you want to improve the look a bit but make it handle a lot better but still keep a “stock” look go for 40mm I reckon. If you want the proper lowered look I’d go for ClassicSwedes 70mm drop. Should still be ok over most speed bumps as the ground clearance is pretty high on these things but it’ll look amazing. I wish I’d gone for 70mm but my wife drives the car a lot and might not be as thoughtful about the bumps as I would be.

I went for the 70mm springs and shorter shock from Dai but as I've said before, the rears dropped well but the front only went down a short amount. The fit of the shocks and how they seated in the towers were pretty dodgy too. I'm guessing I got a 40 or 50mm spring by mistake but it was about 18 months ago now. Chopped a coil and it's now a proper sled.

[Steve940estate]

Originally Posted by Casheye

I went for the 70mm springs and shorter shock from Dai but as I've said before, the rears dropped well but the front only went down a short amount. The fit of the shocks and how they seated in the towers were pretty dodgy too. I'm guessing I got a 40 or 50mm spring by mistake but it was about 18 months ago now. Chopped a coil and it's now a proper sled.

So are you saying that the parts you got from Classicswed aren't safe to use as supplied ?

[Casheye]

Originally Posted by Steve940estate

So are you saying that the parts you got from Classicswed aren't safe to use as supplied ?

Well if you define safe as;

"not likely to cause or lead to harm or injury; not involving danger or risk."

then I'd say all the components I bought were safe to use. The issues I had were that the assembly for the front suspension (inserting the shocks into the strut towers with the components provided) was a bit hit and miss. I'll go into it in more detail on my build thread when it gets a bit warmer.

Once everything was tight and installed I had no worries driving on them, but things just didn't go together as you'd assume they would considering it all came as a single package.

EDIT:

That makes it sound like I had trouble understanding how it all went together, which wasn't the case. It was do to with the manufacturing of the components and how they all fitted together inside the tower.

[FIREBOLT]

Originally Posted by Casheye

I went for the 70mm springs and shorter shock from Dai but as I've said before, the rears dropped well but the front only went down a short amount. The fit of the shocks and how they seated in the towers were pretty dodgy too. I'm guessing I got a 40 or 50mm spring by mistake but it was about 18 months ago now. Chopped a coil and it's now a proper sled.

Glad I held off buying the -70mm springs now , I currently have -40mm Kilen springs & B8 dampers. Rear has dropped fine but the front never did, not a fan of chopping springs so it will definitely be coilovers now.

[classicswede]

Originally Posted by Casheye

Well if you define safe as;

"not likely to cause or lead to harm or injury; not involving danger or risk."

then I'd say all the components I bought were safe to use. The issues I had were that the assembly for the front suspension (inserting the shocks into the strut towers with the components provided) was a bit hit and miss. I'll go into it in more detail on my build thread when it gets a bit warmer.

Once everything was tight and installed I had no worries driving on them, but things just didn't go together as you'd assume they would considering it all came as a single package.

EDIT:

That makes it sound like I had trouble understanding how it all went together, which wasn't the case. It was do to with the manufacturing of the components and how they all fitted together inside the tower.

You had to shorten teh spacers IIRC as you already had the fixed spacers in place. The spacers are now shorter to work with the fixed spacer type and if you have teh removable spacer that should not stay in place along with teh spacer provided. Should have done it that way to start with.

The springs we are fairly sure you must have had 50mm front rather than the 70's. However we were finding on some cars the front springs were not always lowering as much as they should so some slight changes have been made.