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Old 09-23-16, 09:57 AM
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Eibach coilover springs

I'm looking to pair up a new set of coilover springs with the Tein Flex Z coilover setup. I'm going with the 8/6 or as close as I can to that. I see Eibach makes coilover springs in 448 & 371 and with their good reputation for the ground control setup I was looking for feedback or opinions of these springs vs the Swifts. Pricing is near identical from what I've found. Anyone have experience with these?
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Any good spring is going to work just fine. Hypercoil, Eibach, Swift, Pac, etc.
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Agree very little functional difference between quality spring manufacturers. I used to build and valve custom coilovers and we would use hyperco, eibach, tein, swift, bilstein, whatever was available in the correct length and rate.
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really good move in so many ways. i agree w the other posters... the rate is the thing and all the other vendors springs should work similarly.

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Thanks for the reply guys. Is there any concerns I should have running the 8/6 rates with 255/40/17 tires? I was looking over Howard's suspension thread and thought it mentioned this rate with stock or similar tire sizes.
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no issues w 8/6 and your setup...

30front 27rear set cold is important

i was and am running 18s
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I run 8/6 as well with 18's. my cold tire pressures are 32/30 which seems to like that pressure.
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