arootbeer

I appreciate the input from both of you. It sounds like I may not have been too clear with how I represented the current state of the handling, so I'll try to address that.

 

The car corners and carves to my taste - very neutrally, very controllably. It's certainly possible for it to get out of hand, but I figure just replacing the shocks and struts with GR2s would be enough to take care of those instances within the tolerances of my actual driving skills.

 

But a lot of the roads around here have sudden drops where the ground has sunk or risen slightly, some of which I can't imagine being less than 6" change in level, and there have been plenty of times where I've scraped the mufflers as the back end dumped off the drop, and I swear there was one time I scraped the floor of the car when I went over a bump on a section of road that also drops off to the right about 1/3 of the way from the center line. So a lot of my goal with raising would simply be to keep the car that much further above the ground, and I'm asking about handling simply because I don't want to substantially worsen the handling the car already exhibits.

 

I recognize that the center of gravity is one of the keys to handling, but I have to imagine the H&Rs are stiffer than the stock springs, which should contribute positively, right? That was what I was trying to compare to the Outback suspension, which I would assume has very similar spring rates to the LGT, but IIRC would raise the car almost 2 inches.

Interesting thought. Would you expect the handling to be be better, as well as the ride? My goal is "sporty daily driver". I'm pushing 20PSI through a 16G turbo, so the stock suspension is a very glaring weakness.

Apologies in advance if I've missed this being addressed somewhere, but I've been searching the subject off and on for at least a month and decided to just ask the question.

 

I've got an '05 LGT MT with 112K on what I believe to be the original suspension. I picked up a set of H&R raising springs, but I haven't been able to find any information about what the shock/strut recommendations for raising springs are.

 

My assumption would be that the 1.3" raise the springs advertise would mean that the shocks would simply experience a greater travel range under compression, but that the total stroke length of the shock/strut should not have to change. (IOW - that the OEM stroke length should be fine.) Is that correct?