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Finally installed the coil-overs I had sitting around...



Bit of a PITA to put on, but def. gives the car an enitrely different look.

She's on her nuts! Looks good.

what brand c/o's?

Raise it .25 inch, get some wheel spacers, it'll ride cherry.

whats with the flat black?

I'm not sure whats worse, the flat back or the pic quality Only bustin on ya

They're megan racing coil obers off ebay(got em for cheap) for "94-01 Impreza" according to the box.
The flat black is cause the car was blue and my hood and front bumper were white.
You're absolutely right, the quality is poor at best, and the flat black looks like crap

So they aren't coilovers, they are just a regular spring with an adjustable lower seat?

id roll out in that wagon, while puff puff passing the comption away.

i want flat black so BAD to much rust but FAST as HELL hahahahahaha

BAC5.2 wrote:So they aren't coilovers, they are just a regular spring with an adjustable lower seat?

Well they are COIL springs that go OVER the shock assembly, so call them what you will. It should be easy to tell I didn't spend a large amount of money on a car I got for basically free

91White-T wrote: Well they are COIL springs that go OVER the shock assembly, so call them what you will.

Thats so awesome. Every subaru evar made has coilovers!

BAC5.2 wrote:So they aren't coilovers, they are just a regular spring with an adjustable lower seat?

Correct. As far as product versus price point goes for these "coilover kits" you REALLY do get what you pay for. I've seen so many bad things happen to good cars with these installed it's scary.

Money totally better spent when it boils down to it, but some people don't listen others and others don't care enough to save the $$ to get it done right.

JasonGrahn wrote: As far as product versus price point goes for these "coilover kits" you REALLY do get what you pay for. I've seen so many bad things happen to good cars with these installed it's scary.

just curious, what have you seen happen?

hows the ride quality?

Bouncey....lol It's because all four shocks are bad thoughm I'm sure it wouldnt be bad with new shocks.

91White-T wrote: just curious, what have you seen happen?

That adjustable perch/sleeve thing, i've seen it shift on a car while it was driving, then the spring fell off the perch, then the corner of the car took a dive. car lost control and hit a median on the freeway. Bad news.

I've seen someone try and weld the sleeve onto their strut. That didn't work either, weld didn't take and again, it fell.

Lesser, but I've seen way tooo many midadjustments with these, corners off by full inches; obviously effecting handling.

i think thoes are bad news too. the sleve the perch is attached to is flat while the strut is contoured so it sits crooked if it sits at all. i could see nothing good come out of it other than looking dam cool

azn2nr wrote:the sleve the perch is attached to is flat while the strut is contoured so it sits crooked if it sits at all.

I don't follow. The sleeve slides over the shock body. Both are perfectly straight.

the perch your spring sits on stock is contoured to fit the spring. but the coil sleve is flat and doesnt sit flush. like this \- the perch is tilted and the sleve is flat.

does the flat black make it hard to clean? i was contemplating flat black once...

ya i was thinking the same thing does it make it harder to clean

You can't really clean flat black. I went off roading once and the dirt is now part of the paint job. Of course you could always clear coat over it I guess...

yea, but if you clearcoated it it would lose the "flatness" and you'd just have a regular black car...

hmmmm.....

did you try like super pressure washing it?

I used Black Magic paint protectant and some other brand I can't remember. They worked equally as well, but had to be applied every week. Bird shit was the hardest thing if I neglected a week and if it sat in the sun the stain was very aggravating to get off. It's the reason I left the roof body color and only had the trunk and center part of the hood flat black on the '83 sedan. Tha paint protectant would give it a light shine, but it was more like a low lustre semi-flat black than a gloss. The more often you use it the better also as the paint sucks in the protectant and it takes more and more coats the longer you go.

Steve