Quick eibach spring Q

[RJ-92]

I was going to cut them a tad. It sits a lil too high yet, particulary in the rear. I would prefer to cut out the softer part of the springs progressive rate as opposed to the stiffer part? Which part of the spring do I want to cut? the top where the coils are close together or the bottom where thay are spaced further appart?

 

[Ishodu]

Your going to want to take off at the top not the bottom. I have also been thinking of doing the same for the front of my car its sits to high in front for me. My back is fine though.

 

[shopartsnw]

Pleeeeaaasssee No . I just got though fixing my rear springs right before the convention. The prior owner thought the car rode too high and cut a coil off the Eibachs. Although he did have it done on the bottom of the spring instead of the top, I still don't recommend it. It was a few weeks of frustration to find out what happened. The coil did not sit in the bumpers correctly which caused problems. Worse yet, the shorter Eibach would go fully unloaded at times. If you jacked the car up, you could spin the spring. I actually did not have to use a spring compressor to remove it. I think the Eibachs have to be pretty close to as short as you can go, as-is. When driving it would shift around if you got it light in the rear, then the suspension was different all the time. It made a terrible clunking sound all the time and the car handled like garbage. I really recommend staying with Eibach as-is. Those engineers don't get all that money for nothing. You may make it "look" better when it is parked, but I am more interested in how in handles.

Sorry for the rant , but it was a VERY bad day when I discovered the problem, and it is too fresh in my memory.

One other thing, I was able to buy just a set of rear Eibachs to fix the probelm, but it was very difficult to find the half set and cost me about 70% of a whole set, so it is difficult to go back once you cut.

If you are still interested. I have my old set of cut down rear Eibachs. You can have them for shipping cost.

- Mike

 

[DHMag]

buy Moog Control Coils and cut them to desired ride height. cheaper than ruining a set of Eibachs, though im not fond of the Eibachs.

 

[SHOoff.]

I too have Eibach, and it sat too high. Cutting the springs is a bad idea, all you have to do is cut the tab off your struts and lower them in the knuckle, careful not to go too low in the front or you will hit your CV boot with the bottom of your strut, leave at least 3/8 inch clerence between. I lowered my car an extra 5/8 inch in front, and 3/4 in the rear doing this.
And don't worry about your strut falling through your knuckle and smashing everything, the tab does not hold the strut, the knuckle does.

 

[RJ-92]

I too have Eibach, and it sat too high. Cutting the springs is a bad idea, all you have to do is cut the tab off your struts and lower them in the knuckle, careful not to go too low in the front or you will hit your CV boot with the bottom of your strut, leave at least 3/8 inch clerence between. I lowered my car an extra 5/8 inch in front, and 3/4 in the rear doing this.
And don't worry about your strut falling through your knuckle and smashing everything, the tab does not hold the strut, the knuckle does.

Good I dea, I think I'll do that instead. I'll just hae to make sure there is enough clearence for the tires. I think I might leave a piece of the tab there and just cut the bottom portion of it off, just to serve as a mounting point so that next time I remove them they're all at a consistant height.

 

[Dave Kegel]

Yeah, be careful with this. I lowered the front of my '93 this way, when I had the 235/45-17s. When I went to put my slicers back on it with 225/55-16s, the tires hit the bottom of the spring perch. Oops! Kind of a pain to raise it back up.

Dave

 

[sdpatt]

Yeah, be careful with this. I lowered the front of my '93 this way, when I had the 235/45-17s. When I went to put my slicers back on it with 225/55-16s, the tires hit the bottom of the spring perch. Oops! Kind of a pain to raise it back up.

Dave

To spread the gap between the knuckle and the spring perch on the strut, I use a 1.5 ton bottle jack placed on the knuckle where it meets the strut with the shaft under the spring perch. I use this method to slide the strut out of the knuckle during a spring/strut service. I usually don't even need to use the jack's bar as there is enough mechanical advantage with hand pressure on the bar receiver on the jack to slide the strut free of the knuckle.

 

[GR8WYT]

Shortening the front coils ( or lowering the strut in the knuckle ) is going to lessen the amount of suspension travel you have and will cause the car to bottom out over big dips in the road. Not a nice feeling. I've managed to bottom out the front end on standard Eibachs on some of the roads around here. In my opinion, Eibachs are too soft to be made shorter.

If you want lower ( and stiffer ), go to a linear rate spring and Koni's; or coilovers.

Lowering the front end (even more) also will create durability issues with your drive axles and will increase the bump steer of the car. Just things to keep in mind.