Ranging from $800 all the way up to $40,000 and beyond there are lots of companies that make gravel coilovers for subaras and there are a few threads on here discussing them on this site. Long story short, i wanted the performance and adjustability that i had been lacking from a stock setup. Did some searching and found K-sport making gravel coilovers. As i trolled through old posts, many people disliked the setup as being poorly made and overall just sucking. but as the posts became newer, i saw a convincing trend of their product evolving and getting better. Within the last year or so i have seen nothing but good things. On K-sports site the rally gravel coilovers are actually made specifically for this body style and not modded in some way from another model for another car so the spring rates match the shock dampening for this weight. They are listed for 1650 plus shipping on k sport (could find them through other sites for 1575 shipped). Curious, i called k-sport directly and after several minutes of talking and liking what i was hearing, the man on the phone became very frank and asked, what is it going to take to make this deal? I said make me an offer i cant refuse. (i know... corny, but surprisingly effective) And after a little back and forth i had a set coming to my house for 1485 shipped. Stoked!
Fitment. with my experience with coilovers i know a bit of prevenitive maintenance is key. So I moved all of the moving parts ie. locking rings and springs perches and coated them and the threads of the body with anti sieze. Although they did not come set up to bolt right on, the coilovers came with good instructions to set up for installation . I first set the preload with adjustable lock rings/spring perch and lock those in place. Now the really cool part of these coilovers is the body is threaded all of the way from top to bottom and the black part where it bolts to the knuckle is also threaded so it can be turned up or down to get your desired right hieght. more on that later. I measured the old suspension and figured i would make the new stuff have the same dimentions as a good starting point. Once everything was all set up with lots of anti sieze and hours of measuring and locked together, i installed. Pretty straight forward. Everything fit as it should.
When i lowered the car down though i was shocked to see how high the new suspension had lifted it. Probably 2.5 inches over stock, maybe more. I didnt measure, just laughed and reracked after taking a picture. I lowered it down as far as i could, dropped it down about an inch. Turns out that in the front eventually the threaded body sticks down lower then the black ears and will touch the front axle boots if your not careful. So i am sitting about 1.5 inches over stock, i like the ground clearence so i wasnt to disapointed, although the lack of adjustability towards stock level was annoying.
The struts are 36 way adjustable so i started them out in the middle at 18 at all 4 and went over a speed bump in the parking lot, ouch, way to stiff. Dropped it down to 14. noticably better. Right now im sitting at 10 and i like it, not so bouncy and stiff on the roads and great off road. Still lots of seat time to dial in my settings but this is a good starting place.
I also made a set of coilover covers from some oil soaked canvas and bailing wire to protect my investment which once i have made my DIY i plan making a link from this post to that.
I only have 15 miles off road with them currently so i will repost later with more definitive results but right off the bat, wow. So much better then even the wrx stuff i liked so much. The rear top hats are a bit noisey, but hey, what did i expect. If your still reading, sorry for the long windedness, i just wanted to be thorough.
K-Sport Part Number for 89-94 Legacy: CSB080-GR
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Before, with wrx
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K-sport after initial install
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