my sweet ghettttoooo coilovers

[festyfreak39]

Hey all...

I used this set of coilovers on my 2 festiva race cars and they worked aweeesome... however they were a constant trial -error basis... This by no means is a fancy coilover setup but it really really worked for me i have some pics and ill list the specs. enjoy:

These are ghetto but if your budget is low these willl be your friend!

honda civic coilover (dropzone)

front mazda 323 struts

rear vw rabbit gti struts

enjoy!

[sasquatch]

awesome what year cars did you grab the struts off of? i need more damping in mine...

[festyfreak39]

i beleive a 1986 vw and an 1989 mazda 323... the dampening on this setup is perfect! the 323 shocks really made a difference

[sasquatch]

sweet, thanks for the info

[festyfreak39]

np!

[SiC sEnSe]

so would this be a direct drop in no mods are needed to make these work???

[Ghost]

looks like a setup you would want to avoid large bumps.... those springs would unseat cause the strut is so much longer.

[perucho]

looks like a setup you would want to avoid large bumps.... those springs would unseat cause the strut is so much longer.

I would say avoid any bumps LOL. Those springs will easily jump off the bottom perch and could damage the perch since it's made of aluminum. I wouldn't use those for the street unless I had a helper spring to make sure they don't get unseated.

[Nerd Racing]

I have put about 5k miles on my setup like that without tender springs going down roads that have 1ft plus drop offs because of the road sinking and I never unseated a spring or damaged a spring perch, you would have to hang your car off a cliff to unseat man!

And I was running insanely high spring rates too, 450 front and 350 rear.

[festyfreak39]

these have been through it all folks, and im running the same spring rates as nerd racing! had 0 problems with them... super super stuff i had these spring rates cause i was running slicks

[Nerd Racing]

I wouldn't be surprised if we both have kidney damage after those springs! I'm ordering 250 front and 150 rear QA1's from summit after I get my swap finished up and my body rot fixed.

[mikeycar500]

i might just do this i just broke my front sping today and was looking at cheap way to lower it
for the dropzone part of them u said r from a cvic what year of civc
and is it a bolt it or do i have to do some fab wok thanks

[festyfreak39]

the only fab work i did was to cut off the stock oem spring perches off the mazda 323 shock, sorry for the late reply, and as a year of civic i think 01? im not sure its been long ago

[festyfreak39]

the car looks much lower with this setup ill get a pic

[Pu241]

323 alloys with studs?