New struts or buy coilovers?, GT-Four coil discussion Options

[Brian_GT4]

Hey everyone, new member here and this is my first post. Sorry if there's a ton of posts on this already.

Basically, I just got my '95 GT-Four a couple weeks ago and it had a ton of noise coming from the front passenger side. Upon initial inspection by a local shop they thought it was the figure 8 mounts, after a closer look with someone in town who has his own GT-four we found that it was actually the strut that had seized up. It had fluid around it and when we applied pressure to attempt to compress the strut it just lifted the car. We checked out the other strut and it had a bit of fluid around it and could be on it's way out.

I live in Canada and getting parts here for this car is going to be a trick to say the least.

My options at this point are either new stock struts (~$800 CAD) or go to coilovers ($1000~$3000+ CAD).

The car currently sits quite low and I've had it scrape in places I'd prefer to see it not scrape in. My thoughts are with coilovers I could fix the current problem and raise the ride height.

I've read a couple write ups on here about different types of coilovers that are available and I read a really in-depth review of BC racing coilovers. These seem like a pretty cheap and reliable alternative to the TRD or Tein factory superstrut coils.

I don't plan to do much with the car, it's definitely not going to be raced anything like that. It is my winter ride for this winter and I need to make sure it runs reliably and I need to get this seized strut out asap.

Any insight, thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm curious what some other people have done to set up coilovers in their ST205s and what products they went with / how hard the install was.

Thanks.

[jbod]

Nothing wrong with the bc's they seem to do the job. I used a set in one of my 205s and i also used the teins. I guess in a quality perspective the teins had travelled 150,000ks, looked and felt new. Id imagine the bc shocks would last 6-7years before needing a birthday. The teins twice that. Ones from japan the other taiwan. Out of everything twice i have just re sleeved the shock. Chop it in half weld a nut on and put some koni inserts in and your away. Same feel as the GAB or TRD dampner shocks. And can always replace the shock cartridges. Maybe buy a good second hand set of aftermarket direct replacement dampners like the GAB or TRD shocks. Approx 600-1000 nzd landed i have found.

Il currently using GAB dampner shocks really good tho mine are getting old done 150ks or so!