Denis Palmans writes:
What kind of spring rates do some of you people run front and rear?
I was looking at getting some 400lb front springs and 255lb rear springs.
anyone running these kind of spring rates on their cars?
I have 500/300 on my car. I started out with 400/300 on H&R coilovers, and
this was just about balanced... I may switch back.
Also i was looking at using bilstien HD shocks, or boge pro gas. Is there a
big differance between the two other than the price. Do the boge shocks come
with a lifetime warranty, i saw that the bilstiens have a lifetime warranty,
but what exactly does that cover?
I wouldn't recommend either for high spring rates.. the bilsteins should
work ok, but will work better if revalved. I would spend the money for
koni's if you're going to go with high-rate linear springs. The H&R
coilovers have the damping matched to the spring rates, and it's really
nice. no bouncing, no weirdness.. just perfect damping. Underdamped springs
are not fun. The lifetime warranty from bilstein will cover anything except
you being an idiot. You will have to mail them off to have them repaired,
though...
Also if i do end up going this route, i will be buying new springs, shocks,
and probably strut mount/bearings. From looking at Parts4vws.com it says
that you can use G60 strut bearings as an upgrade from stock, this seems
like a good deal as they are only 17 bucks each. I checked the vr6 strut
bearing upgrade and it was much more pricey.
How does the g60 stut bearings compare to the stock ones, and are they worth
it?
Go for the VR6 ones; the G60 ones are really not any better than the A2
ones.
Finaly is there anything else that i should replace while i'm there?
nope, that's about it...
