Lowering springs and CC plates - they needed?

[nemo69]

Yea, the stock shocks have held up well! Although, their age is showing now and I need to replace...i'll be going to the JIC coil overs and converting to IRS.

I would recomend new shocks with the springs. I put a set of Kazera's (same rates as eibach) on my mom's 04 GT with a set of Tokico's. She's had no problems with it and it alings perfectly.

 

[ccramer]

The pro3 plates are very good quality with a lifetime guarantee on the plates and the bearing. The bearings are heat treated alloy steel and the main plates are alloy steel as well. As for the comment above he must be mistaking them for some other plate as the pro3 does have a separate plate for caster and camber. The advantage you will have with the pro3 is the bearing plate which adjusts caster is mounted underneath the big plate on top; this design will spread the load through out the hardware and plate better than the mm design.

 

[53BigDog]

The pro3 plates are very good quality with a lifetime guarantee on the plates and the bearing. The bearings are heat treated alloy steel and the main plates are alloy steel as well. As for the comment above he must be mistaking them for some other plate as the pro3 does have a separate plate for caster and camber. The advantage you will have with the pro3 is the bearing plate which adjusts caster is mounted underneath the big plate on top; this design will spread the load through out the hardware and plate better than the mm design.

Like said. I love the Pro3i

 

[tomustang]

I've got a set of eibach sportlines on my 02 gt. They dropped my car about 1.7 inches in front and 1.5 in the back. I don't have any alignment problems and i am still running stock cc plates and shocks.

bull****. your tires must love you.

So will I need to get new Shocks if I drop my car?

The car has about 54K miles on it.

~K

A heavier spring will cause too much pressure on the stock struts, they will last for a few months.

 

[nemo69]

tomustang, thank you for the encouraging reply, and for making me feel welcome to this forum. I assure you I haven't had any alignment problems. The shocks are showing thier wear now, which was to be expected (i knew they wouldn't last for long). I was going to do shocks this year, but I befriended a man who is the west coast distributer for jic and he wants to test mule my car for a custome coil over setup. So, I live with the shocks no longer controlling the springs until we are ready for that. Car drives straight aside from slight tire pull...which should be expected from high performance tires, and California's poor highway condition.

2002GreyGT, if you can do it, get shocks with your springs, but if you can't do both at the same time, your stock shocks will hold for about a year (mine have and still ok...not great, but ok). Of course, everyone's experience is different...

 

[gtvertsoon]

Yea, the stock shocks have held up well! Although, their age is showing now and I need to replace...i'll be going to the JIC coil overs and converting to IRS.

I would recomend new shocks with the springs. I put a set of Kazera's (same rates as eibach) on my mom's 04 GT with a set of Tokico's. She's had no problems with it and it alings perfectly.

I'd really like to know where you are finding JIC coilover made for a mustang, or any Ford for that matter. Unless you have some kind of japanese stang or a Honda, I don't see any JIC mustang coilovers. Wish they made em, but they don't.