02-04-2007, 02:37 PM
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Lowering Springs
I have 18's and was wondering what you guys though about the best spring to buy for an alero. I been looking at einbach and sprint. Does anyone have any feedback on which would be the best buy ?
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02-04-2007, 02:54 PM
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eibach are a waste.
sprint gives the biggest drop...... but i see your from ohio...... might wanna consider intrax.
im assuming its hilly over in canfield (im in kent) so you might want intrax
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02-04-2007, 03:11 PM
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Jack-Wagon
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maybe we should start a forum category of "FAQ's" with all the shit about springs and gadgets everyone asks about without searching.
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02-04-2007, 05:36 PM
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thanks I guess I should go with intrax since the roads around here are shitty in some places. Im leaking power sterring fluid today ! yay this cold weather must have had something to do with it
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02-04-2007, 08:09 PM
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yah my hose popped off my power steering pump or something the other day (the power steering pump was going anyways) and it dumped all my fluid within seconds all over my driveway... needless to say i had no power steering and got it towed in! lmao. def random as hell. it sucked.
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02-04-2007, 09:26 PM
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eibach best performance, but has the smallest drop. ed say for where u are, go with intrax or sprint. plus u have 18s so the bigger drops would be better
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02-04-2007, 09:55 PM
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Defeat < Giving Up
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I Have the DZ's. You can get em on ebay. I think they are made for the malibu. They drop about 1.75 front and like 1.8 back. They ride to loose for me I have scraped on some of the bigger dips in the roads here. But our roads suck
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02-04-2007, 09:59 PM
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I was running Spring Tech (Sprint, if I remember right they're the same) and it made it easy to scrape, but not to a rediculous degree. If you drive it careful and take driveway and parking lot slopes a little slower then it'll be fine. Even snow didn't seem to do much except rip off the plastic wind thinger under the front bumper.
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02-04-2007, 10:35 PM
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hell i have dropzone springs in my car and i love them!! 2" drop easy and i havent even had my wind guard under my front bumper get ripped off yet hahaha just gotta watch how you drive
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02-04-2007, 10:56 PM
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Mine got torn off from driving a long ways in a pretty decent snow storm on unplowed roads. All the other cars could barely clear it but my good old Alero scraped off quite a bit from the top. It didn't quite reach the bottom of the bumper but when I got to where I was going the windgaurd was only hanging on by a thread.
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02-04-2007, 11:08 PM
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Southern Fly Boy returns
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i got Sprint and definitely a good 2 inch drop, looks good tho with my 18's, but im not also up north like you, Im way down south.
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02-05-2007, 12:45 AM
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Everyone says they have bad roads. There's bad roads anywhere. a 2" drop isn't going to kill your car even on bad roads. We have some pretty bad winters here in Buffalo and my car has always been fine with my Sprint springs even during winter. Only time I scrape is on the steeper driveways and parking lot slopes. It is a little stiffer ride also, but not unbearable.
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02-05-2007, 01:37 AM
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Southern Fly Boy returns
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yeah I feel like Im headbangin goin down a bumpy road with my sprint springs lol
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02-05-2007, 04:55 AM
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The Drunk
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It's not the bad roads around here that worry me, It's the huge dips at most of the intersections around here for drainage.
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02-05-2007, 07:27 AM
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Canadian... Eh?
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you will be fine, I got springtech(sprint) and our roads are hell here.
The only really bad time I can remember was this entrance for a bar, the driveway went up a little ways, then down. I pulled in not realizing and the started to scrap, and tried to stop and back out, and my cat got stuck on the lip of the driveway. So I had to go forward and just let it scrap, it sounded pretty bad, but it was just the exhaust scraping.
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02-12-2007, 04:13 PM
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If I'm plannin on getting 18's and the AAS kit, and usually drive on some pretty bad roads, which springs would you guys recomend?
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-Red 04 Coupe, 2.2 eco, 20% tint all around, Cosmo wai, Sprint springs, both speedbuilt sway bars,18" black Enkei Ls5's -Future plans: Kyb agx's, front and rear stb's, and a lil more in the planning...
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02-12-2007, 04:35 PM
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if i remember right, sprint spring and a body kit make things a little more prone to hitting the road.....i dont know, if it were me i would air on the side of safety and go with eibach if you're putting on a kit, maybe intrax....it really depends if you care if youy body kit gets knocked around or chipped or cracked
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02-12-2007, 04:57 PM
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I'd really rather not have all the chips and cracks and all, and I do drive on some pretty rough roads. I had been lookin into the eibachs, but then saw that in those posts up there about them. Now, I'm unsure what to do. I don't know if I saw it somewhere on this site or where it was, but I read somewhere to get some of that spray on bed liner ran around the bottom edge of your kit to help with nicks and all. Was thinkin about gettin that done to help a little.
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-Red 04 Coupe, 2.2 eco, 20% tint all around, Cosmo wai, Sprint springs, both speedbuilt sway bars,18" black Enkei Ls5's -Future plans: Kyb agx's, front and rear stb's, and a lil more in the planning...
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02-12-2007, 05:23 PM
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Hey if I bought a kit I mean lowering springs for a malibu they will fit my 2003 Alero?
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03-14-2007, 12:10 PM
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