My drop

[McSteve]

I got the Tokico Illumina and the Eibach springs in the mail the other day so i finally found sime time to put them in! I Put in the front drop today, was more a pain in the *** than i thought. I had a shop compress the springs for me. They seriously wanted 600 bucks to install them! i talked to the owner and he agreed to compress them and change the springs and stuts on the assembly for 10 bucks each tho! That was the hardest part about it lol. I ran into a little problem tho. I just trusted the guy and that he knew what he was doing. Unfortunately after i put the assembly back in the right was sitting over an inch higher than the left! Took em out and checked, and the OUT sign wasn't lined up with the Mounts. Well kind of time consuming PIA but finally got it fixed. Then i was working on the back and ruined a socket trying to get the 17mm bolt of with the breaker bar. I'll get an impact wrench tomorrow tho. I also put the JWT pop charger in and cleaned the engine compartment. I ground the stock air box bracket that holds the sensors on the same cable as the MAF sensor cable, so I have no cables flying around. I left the stock first part of the air box in, with the air temp sensor. My logic behind that was a connected sensor doesn't hurt, and it looks like it does direct some outside air towards the intake. what do you guys think? I installed the Stillen FSTB too so the entire engine compartment looks pretty sick, I'll post some pics soon!

Oh, and I also test drove it with just the front lowered. It already handled completely differently and i already bottomed out just coming out of the garage, lol. The FST wasn't installed tho, so it must even drive more amazing now that i put it back in.

[audtatious]

Did you try a standard brake or tire shop? I paid a tire shop to install mine and it was <300 including a tire balance/rotation and an alignment.

[McSteve]

I talked to a couple of em, but they wouldn't install customer's parts. But i mean the compressing part was the most dangerous and hard part of it. The other hard part was getting the installed strut assembly back up in into the strut tower, but I just put a second jack under the entire thing and slowly lifted it up and then alligned the three bolts with the holes and VOILA, done. pretty straight forward, and according to their estimate saved me $560

Edit: Forgive me my spelling mistakes... ESL haha (German is my first)

[McSteve]

SOOOOOOOOOO after a long day I finally am done with the drop. I must say i liked the stance better with only the front dropped ^^ but overall performance is WAY better. It took me forever cos i coudn't get the bottom bolts of the rear, not even with an impact wrench. So i took it to a shop and theyloosened them up for me. The rear was pretty simple after that, except that i had the floor jack under the axle and it took me 2 hours to figure out why the springs seems so damned compressed haha. But i guess it's all a learning experience. So after 3 days I'm finally done! I will post pics tomorrow, i will post a before and after at the exact same place and pose for better comparison.

[McSteve]

So finally I got a chance to upload the pics! Tell me what you guys think!

[jltibbs]

looks much better bro. well done