The previous owner cut the stock springs and the car sits lowwwwwwwwwww. My friend has some springs he will give me (stock) from his 03 gt.. for some reason I'm thinking they will fit. Is this true?
They will fit but your car will be much higher than it was stock. Get some stock fox springs if you want factory ride height or if you want to use new edge springs use either mach 1's or bullets. They will give a good ride a little lower than stock. Dont use the gt springs unless you want to put mud tires on.
They'll be fine. At worst, you're car will sit APPROX 1/4" higher than stock. IMHO, 99.99% of the people on the forums are full of it if they say they could see that difference. And, those people that SAY they _could_ see the difference likely don't have a clue what their tire air pressures are. <rolleyes> So, then, HOW could they detect a 1/4" difference when low tire air pressure could make that up.
You would be better off with Fox springs. But, there is *NO* such thing as "FOX SPRINGS"! The springs were chosen at the factory depending on GT, 5sp, AOD, AC, hatch, etc. Most people just _assume_ hatch, 5sp, AC, power everything when they say "Fox GT springs".
If you could find the right pair for your car, that's good. But, don't worry about sn95 springs making your car sit "very high". If you stay with the factory POS rubber isolators, I doubt that your car's fender will sit higher then the spec of ~27-14 -> 27-1/2" with sn95 springs. The POS rubber isolators compress over time and the fenders drop from 1/4" -> 1/3+" anyways.
You can get Fox springs for ~$50 a pair. But, depending on where you live, it might be hard to find a pair locally at a junk yard that aren't broken or very rusty at the bottom (and therefore be weaker there and may possibly break at that point in a few years).
Either way, get rid of those POS cut springs. You're likely beating the F**** out of your strut towers over ever bump in the road from the strut bottoming out.
So I am apparently mis-informed as I trust your judgment and info stangs2birds.
So your saying that I can use some left over 04 gt springs that have 15k on them instead of my 150k fox springs. (gt auto car) I remember now off of your site that there is no one specific fox spring as they were made for car options not one general casting like most aftermarkets. Is this the same for new 99+ cars?
The reason I ask is I have a big sagging/binding problem that I have not had time to fix and fear my springs and struts are messed up (talked to you about this a while back but the car has been taken off the road pending its winter heart transplant with a new hip or two.)
He is pretty much right. The springs are the same for 4cyl cars...79-98. The springs are all the same for 8cyl cars...79-98.
The 99-04 springs are the same same height but the spring rate is different, so that is what makes the fox sit up higher. But like stangs said....it will not be a lot. You could even leave 1 of 2 springs isolators out. The bottom ones are usually crushed or rotted through anyways, so I would recomment taking the bottom one out.