Front Coil over conversion? how?

[DemonGT]

i have the weight jacker style LCA's in back so i can adjust the height...but i hate how the front end sits on my car..the tires im running in front are smaller then stock but even with stock size tires there is to much of a gap IMO...

i want to replace the front struts...and i also wanted different springs up front to lower it a bit...but got to thinken about just going to front coil overs...

what i want to know is...i see kits that some places sell..but what exactly do you have to do to convert to front coil overs? and what is the advantages and disadvantages?? people say they are so expensive but most the ones iv seen are around 200 bucks, i am spesificly looken at the X2C Motorsports Front Coil Over kit....and what struts to you run inside the spring? dose any one for my car work?

 

[matm347]

Coil over setups have no disadvantages IMO, all around better.

They are easy to do, if you have the right equipment as you'll need good caster/camber plates that will work with coil overs(contact manufacture). I know hotchkis doesn't recommend them, Steedas are OK, as well as MM(they use spherical bearings).


but all you have to do is pull the struts off, slip the threaded aluminum pipe over the strut(my Koni yellows required a little grinding, as the instructions stated), then the spring, then the rest of the hardware. Remove the stock spring of course, then bolt the struts back up.

The manufacture of the kit can tell you what struts will work, you'll want a spring rate that matches what you've got in the rear.

 

[jerry beach]

I recently put an MM front coilover kit in mine. The cost was right at $1000. You can check out the installation instructions for my kit at www.maximummotorsports.com. I thought that was pretty cool, you can see what you are getting into before you buy. Its not as simple as the guy above made it sound, but it was pretty easy. You will need an impact wrench, or a huge cheater bar. Getting the top nut off the strut can be a pain without an impact, but I used vise grips to hold the polished shaft. That is a no no, but the struts were no good. I agree, call the manufacturer to find out what struts their kits will work with. For $200, all you are getting is two threaded alum. sleeves and upper and lower spring perches. You dont get springs and struts with that. I have been told that some of the cheaper kits have a sloppy fit on the strut. Some of them use threaded alum. pipe. MM machines the sleeve out of billet alum. and its a very snug fit on the strut. They will only work with a couple of specific struts though, Koni, or Tokico. I didnt want cheap sloppy fitting junk, thats why I spent a few extra bucks for MM. They didnt let me down either. One thing they didnt tell me is that you void the warranty on your struts when you use them with coilovers. They will be able to tell too, you have to modify the struts a bit.