Some Sorta Lowering Thingy, yeh like the title says Options

[The__J__Factor]

ok guys i found these thing on some site, i cant find the site any more but basicly these things are like little clamps u attach to your springs, and u just tighten it to bring the springs closer together and therefor lowering your car.


has any one heard of something like this, is it good, bad, most probly bad but yeh tell me wut u think

[Theyellowdart084]

Im with player on this one......definatly only for driving my friend's parents bought him a new WRX (lucky bastard) and he was being cheap and used those compressors.....he definatly cracked his struts like 2 weeks later and now he is spending the money anyways

[gcgkt]

Im with player on this one......definatly only for driving my friend's parents bought him a new WRX (lucky bastard) and he was being cheap and used those compressors.....he definatly cracked his struts like 2 weeks later and now he is spending the money anyways
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No, those clamps really were used to lower the car, not compress the springs for installation work. I know because I bought some (a long time ago -- in the day that we used to use lowering blocks on the rears). They were only long enough to compress two adjacent coils together -- I've seen the installation tool and they are much longer because they have to compress a lot. Anyway, don't get them, they don't work. Just bite the bullet and buy new springs.

[Coomer]

(a long time ago -- in the day that we used to use lowering blocks on the rears)

What's a lowering block?

[gcgkt]

(a long time ago -- in the day that we used to use lowering blocks on the rears)

What's a lowering block?
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A long, long time ago.......when some cars had leaf springs in the rear and the axle was attached to the top of the leaf spring with u-bolts, people would lower their cars by inserting a "lowering block" between the axle and leaf spring. Basically it was just a spacer. All it did was raise the axle relative to the spring, making the rear ride lower. And the front was typically lowered by cutting or heating the springs. Lowering springs weren't that common.