Foxbody shocks, struts, and springs.

The Green GT

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Ive heard that the foxbody shocks, struts, and springs will lower an SN95 about 2 inches. Is this true? Is so I may make a trip to autozone soon.

 

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heh you mis understood what I had to say in the other thread.

You need springs from a 94-98. IF THE SPRINGS YOU CHOOSE lower the car around the 2" mark you MIGHT want to look into foxbody springs.

Reason why is that they are shorter then the 94+ shocks and struts and they wont ever bottom out...make sence? You are lowering the car 2" that will make the travel 2" shorter then what there designed for. I dont know how much shorter the fox's are then the SN95 but they are shorter and I have heard they work.

I have SN95 Shocks/Struts and am about 2" low I didnt realize about the fox trick till after I bought my Tokico illuminas I wish I had, YET I have had no problems...I keep my shocks/struts on 4/5 firmness though so I dont think they will bottom out anyways.

 

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Im not sure I understood that completely. So I need to get the Foxbody shocks and struts and SN95 springs that lower 2 inches? With that combo how much of a drop would that give me? Im assuming 2 inches cause wouldnt 2 in drop SN95 springs = stock Fox springs?

Im just guessing.

 

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i think your still comfused

people run the fox shocks/struts when they have a drop of 2" or more because the SN95 ones run the risk of bottoming out if you hit a big bump


i dont know about the springs

 

91LX_5L

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No im just saying that if you choose a set of springs that lower 1"-1.7ish" then you will be fine with the SN95 Struts. BUT IF you want to lower your car any lower then that get the FOX struts.

 

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OHHHH.

Well I just want like 2 inches, no more. I remember seeing a good Ford Racing kit that had alot of stuff in it for around $400 and it gave a 1.5-2 in drop. I cant find it now though.

 

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Lets see if I can help clarify. The fox suspension is designed for roughly 1" shorter travel. When I bought my coil overs, I knew I would be lowering the car around 2". Knowing that I would be lowering the car so much, I would be taking away a majority of the efficient range of travel the stock struts are designed for. I knew the fox were shorter so when I called up Strange and talked to them. They recommended with plans of lowering the car 2", buy the fox struts because they will be much more efficient in handling and will not risk bottoming out. I know its a lot but in a nut shell. If you lower your car around 2", just run fox stuff, because it will be much more efficient instead of only using 75% of the struts range of movement, you can use 100% of it.

Jeremy

 

91LX_5L

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Well put!

There are springs out there like Eibach Pros, H&R's, Ford Racing C Springs, which you can get away with SN95 struts but when that time comes to go shopping and *IF* you decide on a set of SPRINGS (SN95) which ARE ADVERTISED to drop the car in the 2" range then buy FOX shocks/struts instead of sn95 ones.

 

HISSIN50

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This is all what I recall from some time back when I looked at stuff (which seemed cool since fox dampers are often cheaper).

I recall a post in 5.0 Tech yesterday or so and it read funny or was wrong (I recall thinking that the person had it backwards) - that might be what Matt was talkin about with regard to the ambiguity.

 

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91LX_5L said:

Well put!

There are springs out there like Eibach Pros, H&R's, Ford Racing C Springs, which you can get away with SN95 struts but when that time comes to go shopping and *IF* you decide on a set of SPRINGS (SN95) which ARE ADVERTISED to drop the car in the 2" range then buy FOX shocks/struts instead of sn95 ones.

Click to expand...

I used FMS B springs all the way around and also used fox shocks and struts and it works great. I did remove the upper isolators on the front springs though so it lowered just a little more. If you want pics, let me know...

 

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Green: were you talking about this kit? Not exactly the 1.5" you were looking for, but similar?? hth...

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1&part=FMS-M-5400-A&N=115&autoview=sku

 

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94GTPilot said:

Green: were you talking about this kit? Not exactly the 1.5" you were looking for, but similar?? hth...

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1&part=FMS-M-5400-A&N=115&autoview=sku

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I could have sworn it was a 2 in drop. But that looks like it. I want a 2 in drop though.

 

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Why a 2" drop? I'm curious why you would want to go to 2" instead of 1.5"? When I was doing my suspension (Maximum motorsports) I was advised not to go all the way to 2" for geometry reasons. I do run 18" wheels, so that may also be a factor but if memory serv's me correctly, 2" on our cars wont help in the corners anyway??? I'm regurgitating info I was told. hope it makes cense...

 

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Well I was looking at my tires (stock ones) and they are almost exactly the same size as the ones Im getting and with a 2 in drop I would have the same amount of space between the top of the wheel and the top of the wheel well and the front and back of the tires to the wheel well. But once I actually get my new tires on Ill be able to make that judgement for sure.