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Howdy! Alright so I'm very undecisive and I need to upgrade my suspension. I currently have Ford B springs with tokico blue struts and eibach pro damper shocks (I know I shouldn't mix and match but under the circumstances of every dealer being out of stock on them at the time I had to). My first set up tokico struts went out within 2 months. I installed new ones and left the rear eibach shocks in place. Well 4ish months later the tokicos are wearing out again, a few months after that the eibachs are giving in as well. So I'm confused here. Could this early wearing out be due to mixing the brands up? It's pissing me off and I wish I would have done it the right way with Bilsteins and H&R ss, but I cheaped out.
Any ideas as to why the tokicos keeping dieing out? Some memebers on svtp concluded that the tokicos are just junk. I'm starting to think so. Thing is, on my GT I have tokico blues with H&R ss and 2 years in the car rides just fine. I thought maybe they are not the correct struts for the springs, but than again that's basically a mach 1 set up.
One fault I do claim, is that the first set went out due to me using an impact gun on top studs when installing the first set no idea why I did it, I completely forgot about the shaft spinning and destroying the seals inside. Anyways, the second time around I did them the correct way. Used AM's install guide.
So now I'm poised with the question of should I just get coil overs? Detriot seems to think I should lol. But my car will not be tracked, will hardly ever see the drag strip so I won't be getting a bank for my buck there.
So to me Bilsteins and H&R SS are perfect with MM LCA's and SFC's.
I've researched that lowered SN95's shoud go with fox struts/shocks; the ones on my car are not fox parts so maybe they weren't proper for my lowered car.
Sorry for the long post, I just can't explain something without going in depth lol.
Advice away! PS I wanted to hold off on the stuff until summer break but it rides horrible right now ugh. If not, tomorrow I was going to order a magnapacks catback and get my windows tinted finally. Maybe the control arms now and just stick it out with the suspension. It rides okay, except bottoms out on all four corners when there is a sewer hole or going into turns at 20mph +. Also back end is bouncy, the eibach pro dampers are definitely not performance oriented.
Any ideas as to why the tokicos keeping dieing out? Some memebers on svtp concluded that the tokicos are just junk. I'm starting to think so. Thing is, on my GT I have tokico blues with H&R ss and 2 years in the car rides just fine. I thought maybe they are not the correct struts for the springs, but than again that's basically a mach 1 set up.
One fault I do claim, is that the first set went out due to me using an impact gun on top studs when installing the first set no idea why I did it, I completely forgot about the shaft spinning and destroying the seals inside. Anyways, the second time around I did them the correct way. Used AM's install guide.
So now I'm poised with the question of should I just get coil overs? Detriot seems to think I should lol. But my car will not be tracked, will hardly ever see the drag strip so I won't be getting a bank for my buck there.
So to me Bilsteins and H&R SS are perfect with MM LCA's and SFC's.
I've researched that lowered SN95's shoud go with fox struts/shocks; the ones on my car are not fox parts so maybe they weren't proper for my lowered car.
Sorry for the long post, I just can't explain something without going in depth lol.
Advice away! PS I wanted to hold off on the stuff until summer break but it rides horrible right now ugh. If not, tomorrow I was going to order a magnapacks catback and get my windows tinted finally. Maybe the control arms now and just stick it out with the suspension. It rides okay, except bottoms out on all four corners when there is a sewer hole or going into turns at 20mph +. Also back end is bouncy, the eibach pro dampers are definitely not performance oriented.