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morpheus8486 · 11-06-2004, 02:25 PM

So what's the maximum ride height you can set on most coilovers compared to stock ride height? In other words what's the highest they can go? Specifically the KTS coils. The reason I ask is cuz the winters up here in ND are killer and we get quite a bit of snow and I don't have a winter vehicle. I still have yet to experience a winter with my car lowered but I'm guessing it isn't going to be fun. Thanks.
Zach

KiDyNomiTe · 11-06-2004, 02:36 PM

keep your stock struts and put them back on, its going to be the same amount of work almost, just 2-3 more nuts for each strut. I'd rather not drive through winters with the coilovers.

MakotoS13 · 11-06-2004, 04:07 PM

i'd rather spend 500 bucks on piece of crap than go through that hassle. hell, buy a truck and be done with it.

Sil Beer S13 · 11-06-2004, 05:49 PM

yes buy a truck.

Dutchmalmiss · 11-07-2004, 01:41 AM

if not a truck, i know there are geo metros that go for 100-500 and they're clean. haha.

kingsol · 11-07-2004, 01:50 AM

yeah get a cheap beater and save you're car

Andrew Bohan · 11-07-2004, 01:52 AM

do what i did and move away from snow!!!
screw snow!
i hate that shit.

11-06-2004, 02:25 PM	#1
morpheus8486 Zilvia Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: ND Age: 37 Posts: 274 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Coilover ride height question So what's the maximum ride height you can set on most coilovers compared to stock ride height? In other words what's the highest they can go? Specifically the KTS coils. The reason I ask is cuz the winters up here in ND are killer and we get quite a bit of snow and I don't have a winter vehicle. I still have yet to experience a winter with my car lowered but I'm guessing it isn't going to be fun. Thanks. Zach __________________ '91 240sx Fastback SuperHicas My Car Domain Page

11-06-2004, 02:36 PM	#2
KiDyNomiTe Post Whore! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Chicago Age: 37 Posts: 6,296 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: KiDyNomiTe Feedback Score: 0 reviews	keep your stock struts and put them back on, its going to be the same amount of work almost, just 2-3 more nuts for each strut. I'd rather not drive through winters with the coilovers. __________________ PROCEED Grip Gambler

11-07-2004, 01:41 AM	#5
Dutchmalmiss Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Socal (323) Age: 37 Posts: 3,500 Trader Rating: (14) Feedback Score: 14 reviews	if not a truck, i know there are geo metros that go for 100-500 and they're clean. haha. __________________ Pignose, biaaatch.

11-07-2004, 01:50 AM	#6
kingsol Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Berkeley/San Francisco Posts: 1,435 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	yeah get a cheap beater and save you're car __________________ There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. -Emerson

11-06-2004, 04:07 PM	#3
MakotoS13 BANNED Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Texas Age: 41 Posts: 4,205 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	i'd rather spend 500 bucks on piece of crap than go through that hassle. hell, buy a truck and be done with it.

11-06-2004, 05:49 PM	#4
Sil Beer S13 Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Chino!...NOT CHINO HILLS! Age: 41 Posts: 1,117 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	yes buy a truck.

11-07-2004, 01:52 AM	#7
Andrew Bohan Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,331 Trader Rating: (2) Feedback Score: 2 reviews	do what i did and move away from snow!!! screw snow! i hate that shit.