lowerin da celli, wats some good springs Options

[carcamo]

ok i tried lowerin my car twice first i used some eibachlowering springs and for some reason they would get compressed too much and they would literely hit each other on every bump and now i bought some coilovers from ebay and they do da same thing but worse im wondering is it that im usin da wromg type of stuff or is that just normal help me out ppl?

[yarik83]

A spring is a spring, if you flip it upside down it should retain same tensile strength. Only reason for him to have any kind of problem is, like manny pointed out, a blown shock but most likely he installed springs from a different car that is marginally lighter than what celica weighs. I am sure there is a... ohh I dont know a kia or something that weighs 1000lbs less and has similar diameter springs. That would explain why spring would bottom out.

Unless....

He is doing 300ft long jumps in a rally at which point spring would definitely bottom out. In rally they use shock and strut systems that costs thousands of dollars a piece to withstand that kind of abuse.