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As in good condition? I have my old tired setup including tophats from a coilover swapout.

i'm not too concerned with the condition. as long as it is safe to drive on.

Yeah, I moved from L.A. and I miss the city vibe a bit, but this is a nice change. Something I was looking forward to. L.A. became too crazy and too expensive, this is much better.

That mega meet looks good. I hope it will bring back the feelings I got when attending Subiefest in SoCal. I'm sad that this will be the first time in 7 years that I'll not be attending that event.

08-14 WRX AST 4150

08-14 WRX JRZ RS-1

anything 08-14 wrx with no top hats. use 03-07 wrx front camber plates or mounts and 08-14 wrx rear mounts

i'm 75% sure that brz/frs/ft86 suspension will bolt up top hats and all.

Can't say it enough, but I LOVE my AST 4150s.

AST is difficult to get right now. The US wing went through a restructuring recently and they are rebuilding everything after AST Holland and HVT parted ways. I believe they are still in the process of rebuilding their US inventory.

you broke a whiteline adjustable endlink??? i have them and they seem pretty beefy (not like kartboys but still beef). how did you do it? do you have the 24mm?

Yes. I had the Whiteline 24mm XX Motorsport rear bar. I ripped the eyelet out of the threaded adjuster.

New LGT owner and looking to upgrade the suspension to compliment a cobb AP and downpipe I plan to get this year. This forum has a lot of information but the majority of it seems to be specific advice for individual goals/situations. After reading about 30 pages trying to find what I was looking for I figured I'd just ask instead.

 

I drive my car in Wisconsin so snow and salt are an annual occurrance. I use my car as a daily driver, take it on a few road trips a year and don't plan to race/autox it anytime soon.

 

Given how and where I use it, I'm looking for basic mods to make it less of a boat when cornering but still need the ground clearance for snow and plush ride for road trips / daily driving.

 

What mods should I look into? RSB, FSB, struts, springs?? Something along the lines of 'best bang for your buck' is what I'm looking for.

RCE Springs and RCE Bilsteins.

I like them a bunch. (they are also really beautiful) I ended up having to buy the longer bodies than what originally came with it because of the drop - call them up, they are reeeeeeally easy to talk to and can modify it to your "wants". I'm impressed - better than the stocks w/eibachs that I ran for over 75K miles.

 

Plus, they make them here - rebuilds, adjustments, etc... no worries.

 

I did hunting on them with the Nissan/Infinity rides and other Subaru applications to check how they came across - made me more comfortable in choosing them.

 

- Plus, now I can say my a$$ is golden (coilovers with their LCAs) :lol:

I'm not sure that ISC products are made in the USA. They may be assembled here, but the parts are not sourced inside the country. They are probably running on the same business model as Fortune Auto.

^^^ This.

 

Get a proper alignment, then come back. Your toe is out to lunch, I can pretty much guarantee that.

 

Do BCs have adjustable rebound damping?

Compression only and it's marginal from click to click with large jumps between some clicks and no changes between others. Rebound is only found on 2-way systems. Big $$$$ for rebound adjustments.

Front insert part number is 8610-XXXX and rear shock is 8010-XXXX. Both twin-tube. You can easily confirm this by collapsing the damper rods with so little force needed, and the rod not springing back out on it's own.

 

http://www.koni-shock-absorbers.co.uk/images/identifying.gif

Thanks. There's the difference between the Bilstein and the Koni pricing. Better control with the Bilsteins. Due to the Bilsteins being monotube, I would say they are well worth the $1k.

mono

good deal then.

 

3.) Front lower strut mount had to be re-slotted in the Legacy's bolt circle. This was the most painful modification of all, since it required invasive, drilling and machining of the lower mount to accept the legacy's narrower bolt circle. I am not sure if any other model year WRX's have a matching lower front strut mount to the 5th gen legacy, but it would not hurt to find out. maybe the 06-07 strut fits 100% and therefore could make the entire job much easier (Just order 2EA Front 06-07 WRX units, and 2EA Rear 08-14 WRX Units).

Wait... Wut?

So much tease, so little useful information.

Thought you knew...

AST 4150 coilovers 9k front 10k rear all swift springs with swift helpers. No rear sway bar, factory front sway bar.

i find that with the weight and length of the lgt that the extra weight just doesn't want to turn. The goal was to control turn-in with spring rates, rather than sway bar. I went 10k rears with the whiteline supermassive (i forget the size) rear race bar and found that the snap oversteer was... a tad excessive. So i removed it during an auto-x day and found that it was perfect. so the supermassive stayed off and as a plus, my ride quality improved quite a bit.

EDIT: It's not a setup for everyone. MOST people on here will find that matching rates front to back is sufficient for the driving that they do. Matching rates would keep the car predictable, just more firm. I'm not going to lie and say that my first time out on the coilovers and fat bar was flawless, i almost got kicked out for wiping cones off the course after losing the car twice.

I would contend that anything over a 1" drop is not "Optimal" for the stock struts. Regardless of the lowering spring you run, with that drop, you WILL bottom out on big bumps, and that is NOT OPTIMAL.

Stock suspension bottomed out on big bumps. It bottomed out when people sat in the car.

They lower the vehicle within the optimal operating stroke of the stock struts. They are also linear.

http://www.swiftsprings.net/products/sport-compact/sport-springs.html

Noob to suspension concepts here but from what I read in this forum buying springs to lower my car is a BAD idea on stock struts....So basically the most efficient way (on my pocket) is to simply grab some coils (say tein's) and call it a day?

Unless you get Swift springs.

Anyone running the H&R coilovers street perfoemance???? Thoughts??

http://www.hrsprings.com/products/coil-overs/

On paper, they look good. Progressive rate springs for street comfort, with valving tuned for those rates and mono-tube dampers for reduced hysteresis. Sounds like a solid street/daily coilover. I'm sure it'll be very comfortable.