I just got my AGXs and S Techs and now im furious cuz i cant get em on!!! My stupid a s s bolts holding the struts in the front are rusted to hell and wont buge the least bit. Now ive gotta go find an impact wrench and see if i can get em off, the sad part is only 1 bolt came out, out of four...

 

yup... Ebay Tein's are Tein's. You want 2" go Sportline or some weak Dropzone stuffs

 

I recomend the eibach prokit...i puit those on my car and they feel great..a rough ride buts thats cause my struts are bad..i am working on some kyb agx's right now or some tokiko blues..not sure yet

 

Bad struts wont give you a "rough" ride... itll be springy and mooshy... btw this is what i would do... you have an s13 right? well i bought s - tech springs and some shocks, and this is how it will look and all


my car isnt filthy, its dew... this is how i would get off the nuts and bolts... get a can of this stuff called aero kroil and looks like this


get a big 1/2" drive breaker bar, a 17mm socket, and a 17mm wrench. Get the spray and douse it, lightly tap it with a hammer to shock it, and then have at it with the breaker bar... make sure the breaker bar is like 2 feet long. after that, get new bolts and nuts and have fun puttin your stuff back together

 

^agreed dead shocks/struts will feel like a pogo stick... the rough ride might be attributed to stiffer spring rates that aren't matched to the correct shocks.

 

dude phantom i love your ride height...i want that..but i dont get how that worked..arent s techs 1.5 front and 1.2 rear? my car looks like crap right now..it looks so high, especially the front looks like it needs a 2.5 drop or somethin lol...the only thing im scared of is getting s techs and them not being low enough

 

well my car in the photo has s-techs on them, so thats what itll look like. The car is dropped id say 1.75" after the springs and shocks settle down. Ill take a pic cuz that ones old. If ya wanna go even lower, get good coilovers. other than that i dont really know what else

 

Dang, that ride hight looks better then mine with the prokit..almost make me wish i had went agx and s-tech at the same time

 

personally, out of eibach tein dropzone and the other crap i think teins are the best... but i havent seen all of the lowering springs, but out of all ive seen i like the teins

 

so your saying that the box says 1.5 front but after a while they settle down to 1.75? Right now im thinking of getting stechs with kyb agx shocks..will i have a ride height like the one in ur pic? what do the agx's mean when they say "adjustable"? does that mean i can control how much a want to drop it or raise it?

 

adjustable just means how stiff the strut is, i think. It doesnt affect ride height as far as i know. I went with gr2's cuz my car isnt going to be a track car as much as it is gonna be a daily driver. the gr2's are a lot less expensive. And about the springs settling, what happens is all the rubber and stuff compacts to where its gonna sit for the rest of its life, up to 1/4 and inch. If you get gr2's and s techs your 240 will look exactly like mine. I dont know much about agx's but i think theyd look the same

 

springs shouldn't "settle" unless they're cheapo springs. Eibachs don't settle, Tein's don't settle, H&R don't settle (excuse the ghetto lingo)... like Phanton mentioned, it's the rest of your stuff that goes from fully extended/no load (when you jack the car up and there's no weight on the components like bushings, rubber dampeners, etc.) to compressed/ with load (after you install your new springs and put the car - and it's weight - back onto the suspension).

 

i mentioned them settling cuz i used all new pillowball mounts and stuff.