SRT-4 fell through, guess I'm keeping the hatch...new ride ideas
 

Like it says, wanted to wait until my fiance got back from Germany to go down and get the srt-4, but I stopped in yesterday and they sold it. :'( So it looks like I'm gonna end up keeping my 89 hatch for a little while longer. In the mean time, how can I improve the ride quality of the car? I have skank2 c/o's over tokico 5-way adjustable shocks, and even with it's monstrous curb height with these dookie 17" wheels it still rides like a bouncing brick. :P I'm thinking of ditching the c/o's completely and just buying a set of Tein S-tech springs and I'd like to drop to a 15" wheel and a 50 series tire, but only if it'll improve the ride. A heavier car might help out some, and the roads where I live definitely aren't the greatest. What's a good setup that can lower my curb height and still keep a more wrx-feeling ride quality? At the same time I don't want to end up with 3" gaps between the wheels and the fenders, so give me some ideas here. I'm getting tired of driving around in a bouncy tuna can that feels like it has hydro's for a suspension. :1

If this stuff works out, maybe I'll keep the car a while longer and take out a small loan to finish off the little stuff and build another boost build...this time with a built LS/vtec block. 8)

Re: SRT-4 fell through, guess I'm keeping the hatch...new ride ideas
 

skunk2 coilovers=your problem



Want baller stuff go with the koni race stuff. Its pricey but the car I rod in with them was just a blast



If your budget based go with some ground control coilovers

Re: SRT-4 fell through, guess I'm keeping the hatch...new ride ideas
 

your fiancée fucked alot of guys in germany.

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go work on your car

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waiting to get off work ;)

just picked up the engine hoist last night...

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Skunk2 = over price cdm junk. Ground control coil over FTW. Also 17's with low pro's = hard ride also.

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my 17's actually ride pretty good on the highway and around town. the only issue i think i have is blown rear shocks :-X im thinkin about picking up some tokico blues and putting on my cheap ass coilover kit... but then again i might hold out and build a motor first............

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Sounds like you know what you have to do, so get to it.

Ditch the 17's, pick up some real S-techs or a similar spring, and get some 15's with a 50 series tire.

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ground controls are by far worth the money. Eibach springs are a huge company that is respected for a reason and why ground control uses them in their kits




I like sprint springs has well but the ground controls have been my fav

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konis/ground controls here, wouldn't change a thing.

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17's with 40 series tires=shitty ride. I bet if you swapped those for ANYTHING else it would help a ton. :l
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Re: SRT-4 fell through, guess I'm keeping the hatch...new ride ideas
 

Haha...very funny :P

I agree with the cdm junk skank2's...I absolutely ------ hate them and would never reccomend them to anyone.

That's another issue too, which is why I want to drop back down to a 15" with a 50 series sidewall. We'll see what happens though...going to look at a gsr tomorrow for cheap, so I might end up with that instead.

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The Tein S Techs are great for just cuising around and DD, but if you like to throw it around the corners the are less than desirable. I have a set of Eibach Sportlines, but I think my tire are going to rub even more with them..

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who the ---- uses an engine hoist for a D-series? all you need is 2 or 3 floor jacks, a couple 2x4's and maybe some extra jack stands. hell, last one I did, me and a co-worker use a Autozone floor jack ( ----), a GM bottle jack that came out his 89 work van, and a AC delco jack I "borrowed" from a friend. took like 30 minutes.

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::)

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----...I don't even use that many jacks to do my B-series motor in and out of the hatch. I just lay the car out without the front suspension so the oil pan sits on the ground, then jack the car up on both sides with 2 shitty auto zone jacks and some wooden blocks. The jack stands I use just for when I have to reposition the jack.

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I use a lift guess Im wrong. But I use seatbelts instead of chains

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seat belts save lives :1

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They also are great for pulling motors

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i just tried to get financed for an srt-4 to..fell through now im keeping the crx

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Well, supposedly the guy who was going to buy it couldn't get financed either, so they returned his deposit then called me back again. I can afford the payments, that's not a problem, it's just that after digging around and seeing how badly these things lose their value made me stop and wonder if I really wanna pay $20k for a car that will only be worth $12k in 1-2 years anyway? No thank you.

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What the ---- kind of crack are you on?

My car is worth $17k... after 2 years and 40k miles. It's actually APPRECIATED. :S

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:y

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on top of that...you got to change whatever you do to it back every year to get it inspected ....well from were i am from atleast...for dumb ass emissions