Hey guys,

I know its not excatly a Subaru but was wondering if you could help my dad/mum out. They want to lower their new car. Just want to see a nice height on photoshop that would be suitable for car parks and what not.

Out of intrest for myself, can someone totally dump it aswel. So in saying this, 2 pictures, 1 dumped, and one lowered on say, king spring lows.

Thanks in advance,

Eric!

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gonna supply a picture or do we have to do everything?

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Calm down Lyndon you trev. If my desktop computer would load imageshack properly id of had it already.

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My mrs has an SP23.

A bit of history. When she got the car in 2004, there was nothing available for it in the way of performance. As I was selling a lot of suspension and other performance stuff at the time, I kept on the suppliers pretty hard about it all and made sure I got stuff as soon as it came out.

Consequently,

- She had the first set of production Kings Springs in Australia for an SP23,
- She had the first set of Lovells in WA (we swapped them, just to try them out and because she wanted to go a bit lower)
- One of the first production Whiteline strut braces in Australia, first in WA.
- Whiteline strut braces F+R out of the first production batch in Australia.
- Solid rear engine mount from the USA, first that we knew of in Australia to do so (to stop axle tramp on launch).
- K&N Typhoon intake was a 2 month wait as there were none in stock and none produced as yet, and X-Force cat-back system took 3 months to get here after we ordered it, as there were none made!
- Short shift and weighted gear knob came from the USA, as there was no one in Australia selling anything like that at the time.

USA had a lot more stuff than Aus, because the USDM Ford Focus has the same drivetrain and chassis as the Mazda3...a lot of gear was adapted for the Mazda pretty quickly after it was released.

You cant go extremely low like you can with WRXs. For a start, the floor plan is less than 100mm off the ground when you go with Lovells super lows (the Kings are a bit taller).

Also, the Lovell's tend to rub the coils together too, so you'll need to fit spring wraps if you can't handle the sound.

If you go too low, the swaybar links are on a weird angle, and you risk snapping them....you'll need to get some links, which I'm sure Whiteline have released now (we haven't got any yet, but so far so good...if they break we'll replace them )

Low springs (as opposed to super lows) don't have any of these issues.

Thanks Joe! Yeah my old lady will be driving it 90% of the time, and shes worried about the whole scraping thing. I also advised them to just go lows to take the "boat" effect out of it, but keep it practical (dont look at my wrx for the term 'practical').

From experience how do you reckon it will ride with just Low Kingers in it? They are also looking at 17"s so maybe lowering it might make the 17"s have a better effect im thinking.

EDIT: While we are on the rims topic, reckon John at WW could help em out on a nice set of rims?

EDIT 2: Off topic but thought i wouldnt make another post for it, just chucked my Frontlip on thanks to cooj! Sorry for the crappy Phone pic, my N73 only got 3.2MP

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This is one of our cars at work with super mega stupid lows from King springs.

Drop:




Dump:

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That looks quite the part imo almost like an ugly betty without the frontbar/lights ;p

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hey eric is it manual?? if so i have an rx-8 6 speed gear knob at home if ya want it!!

home come you front lip fits better than mine

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hah let me have a look at it. I had to sort of drill into the frontbar and had a little bit of a hard time because my frontbar bottom is chopped to fit the FMIC ;p

Its that sequential i tihnk its called. Auto but can be put into manual!

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