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Ride low and cool

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Eiback SpringsIf you feel like the tuning wizard I think one of the easiest, very visible, tuning option is to lower your ride with some custom springs. I had a look around for a good one and found that Elbach Springs are pretty good. By lowering your body about 1″ - 1.5″ you will gain all sorts of advantages, from reduced body squat, less body roll and so on, giving you a smoother, safer and cooler looking ride.

In fact, the Eibach spring is praised forums as well, take a look at this opinion. “The eibach kit does a great job of giving that “sporty” suspension feel. Steering response is noticably better, low speed body roll reduced, dive under low to medium braking reduced and traction off the line and out of corners reduced.” This is part of a long and very helpful review pointing out the good and bad sides of this spring, take a look at the Briskoda.net forum for more info.

What may deter the pro is that at higher speeds and sharper turns you still get body roll, which means you don’t gain all that much advantage over stock springs. However I still feel that the Eibach is worth it, especially if you’re new in the business. It will lower your ride to make it look awesome and will give you less squat and give you some roll reduction. It’s a great way to ease yourself into tuning in general and the springs are definitely good enough if you just need the looks!