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Bug-Rex
04-19-2010, 02:13 PM
I know you guys must be getting tired of answering questions about how to do this and that to WRX's, so I'll try to make this short.

Right now I am driving a slammed bugeye on very stiff coilovers. I am looking for some stock wrx struts and springs to put back on for a more comfortable ride and so I will be able to once again go out to all of the windy Alabama dirt roads and have some off-road fun. I have no intention of tracking the car anyways so a stiff suspension like mine is not really necessary.

So, onto my question: I want a lot of wheel gap and travel. My plan right now is pick up some stock struts and springs and put a Jackson lift on them. What can I do spring-wise to soften up the ride and maybe give me a little bit more travel on stock struts?

Here is my car for reference except now it has more lights:
http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/Bug-Rex/DSC_1119.jpg
http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/Bug-Rex/DSC_1144.jpg

Bubba02sti
04-19-2010, 08:34 PM
if you wanna go back to stock ride height this is what I did... I put on tokico d specs with sti pink springs with 04 rear tophats the rear strut spaces that you can get with the tokicos to stop the butt sag and the adjustment extenders for the rear so I don't have to take apart the back seat to adjust...

anyway here is how it stands now... I dropped maybe a 1/4" from stock ride height
http://i806.photobucket.com/albums/yy345/Rally_Subie/All%20Things%20subaru/DSCF1484-1.jpg

Im sure you can add the king springs and get a bit of lift with it... and throw on a JR lift spacer to get some lift... either way man good luck... but yeah that thing looks way to slammed... damn pavement queens


edit... also I am on a 17" wheel and have quite a bit of travel room to go before I hit the wheel wells

Bug-Rex
04-20-2010, 07:59 AM
Thanks Bubba! Going to be going with stock struts for now.

bue car
04-20-2010, 10:43 AM
lol what kind of coilovers? would they fit a 07 sti?

Bug-Rex
04-20-2010, 10:51 AM
They are Megan tracks. I am pretty sure they won't fit 05 and up STi's.

bue car
04-20-2010, 10:54 AM
oh snap..stiff mutha's. kool.. i want coils for my sti hehe

already gots teh lifted rs. I used to have wrx struts with wagon springs, now I rock impreza struts (broke a wrx strut jumping) king lift springs, and jr lift kit.

sixTOO
04-20-2010, 11:35 AM
oh snap..stiff mutha's. kool.. i want coils for my sti hehe

already gots teh lifted rs. I used to have wrx struts with wagon springs, now I rock impreza struts (broke a wrx strut jumping) king lift springs, and jr lift kit.

pics of current setup? :D Any thoughts on your king springs?

bue car
04-20-2010, 01:16 PM
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r255/thyfacelessgod/Impreza%2025%20Rs/Picture050-2.jpg

i used them at the least event, i loved them. a little soft on tarmac, but, i have learned to take corners in them at 'fun' speeds on the street, so the car isnt too bad. I do have a ton of chassis braces tho that offset the normal body roll.