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Which is better, lowering springs or coilovers?

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#1 ·
Which is better, lowering springs or coilovers?
 
#2 ·
Lowering springs will give you a stiffer car and more control over body roll, but if you're on stock (presumably old) shocks, they'll make for a very bouncy ride and poor handling on bumpy surfaces. And if you don't change out your stock shocks, they'll eventually give out because the stiff springs put extra stress on them. Once the shocks go, the car will ride like crap. But there are soft sets available that will not stress your shocks as much. I don't know what those brands are, though.

A coil-over kit is usually a matched set of springs and shocks... so the shocks will not be
over-stressed by the spring stiffness. They're usually adjustable for ride height and shock damping, too. If you buy it at a good place and the installer knows what he's doing, it'll ride better than stock while giving you much more control and better handling than just a set of lowering springs. Only downsides is possible suspension noise and rust on the grooves for the rings used to adjust height. If it's a good brand, the springs and shocks will probably live longer than your car will... as most of these sets are a hell of a lot stronger than stock suspensions... Unfortunately, they cost a freaking arm and a leg (say...$1100-$1450... or more for the more adjustable ones).
 
#8 ·
A lot of what your saying isn't correct.
 
#4 ·
If you don't want to worry about cost and adjustability and stiffer ride, then you may want to get some lowering springs. They can lower your car about 2.5" They have a higher spring rate, and are usually designed to be used with stock shocks, so the spring rates are usually not aggressive. I recommend a performance shock to go with lowering springs to make sure you get the maximum benefit and only have to do the labor once.
 
#9 ·
It depends on what your going for! It also depends on doing it the right way and the wrong way.
 
#12 ·
Drag coilovers are for those who strictly drag race. These come in either only the rear set, or all 4. However, the rears are set exceptionally stiff to keep the car from shifting weight to the rear wheels during launch. This is usually used on front wheel drive cars that want to keep the front wheels planted to the ground as much as possible to maintain traction.
 
#14 ·
He asked what lowering not what racing your going off topic.
 
#20 ·
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