Looking to lower my 2005 blobeye. Can't find a good shock and spring set up together so was going to get just springs now. Can't afford coilovers and I've heard its pointless unless you buy the best.

What are people views on Tein? 35mm rear and 25mm on front I think.

Thanks

 

Certainly NO more, unless you want to have to spend big ££ getting the handling back.

 

Coilovers are a bit harsh for Britains pot hole ridden roads,Tein or Eibach are a decent choice ...
I prefer the standard ride but I am getting on a bit .....

 

But are 30mm lowering springs on standard shocks ok? Scoobyworld website says that they are designed for it.

If you know anywhere that does shock and springs together then let me know as I'd prefer to do both as the car is 10 years old now, I'd prefer to renew shocks also but can't find a package together.

 

So would you not recommend lowering a newage STI 40mm all round on tein s springs with kyb ultra shocks then?

 

I've got a set of tein springs for sale, done 50 miles on them.

PM me if your interested.

 

Depends what you use the car for and the quality of your roads

If you drive the car in any way hard and your roads are average UK - crap with potholes then you will get crashing as Teins lower the car too much

The handling also gets worse overall. There's quite a few reasons for this, but basically the Impreza doesn't like to be lowered

 

How much mate?

 

I've never overly bothered by lowering my car, its just quite a few people said it looks to sit higher than normal?

 

https://www.scoobynet.com/subaru-par...n-springs.html

 

What's the difference between JDM struts and UK spec? And how many miles have they covered?

 

I don't think there is a difference but perhaps either someone could verify that on here or if you are interested, I could find out for definite.

They came off my car at 20k miles (obviously the springs had covered much less).

 

nothing different, looking at £100 delivered.

check my pictures in the gallery you will what they look like.

 

Yeah I'm interested, so these will be the same as my 05 sti shocks?

 

Yours are for a hawk, mine is blob, not sure if there is a difference but scoobyworld are doing £130 new so to be honest I'll probably just buy new. Thanks anyway

 

Do yourself a favour and contact pca dynamics.
Ask if he's got the lowered blob/hawk STI springs available yet.

He designed road suspensions for prodrive.

http://pcadynamics.com/

 

Ive got Teins s tech springs on my Hawk STI and they are much better than the standard springs, obviously a little harder. I use mine as a daily and find them fine!

 

Will do thanks

 

Standard shocks too?

 

Yeah standard shocks, had them on the car for about 15,000 miles with no problems.

 

According to folk who know more than I do, 25-30mm is maximum.
More than that and you lower the roll-centre, which results in MORE body-roll when cornering, with resultant loss of grip.

You can get it back, but it costs £££ on suspension mods...and for what?

Mine runs coilovers and various mods like solid droplinks, stiffer REAR arb, poly bushes, anti-lift kit etc, and the late, great Harvey Smith pronounced it "pretty damned good!" Oh...and never forget the PROPER geometry setup from Carnetix.
Forged 2.5 running 400+/400+

Suspension is standard height, on WRX 17" wheels.

 

Maybe I'll just leave it standard

 

I've just got myself a set of bilstein b14 coilovers they are awesome

 

How much were they?

 

Been running Tein S Tech springs on my hawk standard WRX shocks for years now with no issues at all on my every day car. Handling greatly improved, especially after a full geometry setup.

 

just over 1k

 

So many mixed reviews.

 

had tein s tech with kyb ultra sr shocks on my old bugeye, great set up

got a set of pedders on my current blob sti

 

WRX? I looked into these but the peddlers set up seemed to be WRX only?

 

mines an early blob sti 53 plate so with it being 5x100 the pedders fit, they don't fit the 05 onwards cars (widetrack) as they changed the lower stud pattern