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Originally Posted by Dean
Alternative 1. Hacksaw.
Alternative 2. Torch
Alternative 3. Listen to the owner of a professionaly engineered sytem from JIC... 
Sorry man, I couldn't resist.
A Subaru, Tein, Tenabe, engineer or marketing department's ass is no more caligrated that yours or mine. Since the struts are non-adjustable, you get what you get from each of the vendors, and whetehr you like it is determined only by your ass, no one elses.
My suggestion is to find a car that already has brand/model X springs and get a ride. |
The JIC's suck specifically *because* of the lack of testing. They took the JDM coilovers that are supposed to be terrific, and decided "gee, people in the US don't like really stiff rides, let's just sell 'em w/ softer springs." There was no R&D, which is why they suck so much. Sounds very similar to: "well the '05 STi looks the same as the '04... lets just say our existing springs are just fine and sell 'em for the '05 as well."
I would hope that companies like Subaru, Tein and Tanabe are using more than an engineer's ass to test their springs. Things like a shock dyno and timed test laps come to mind. If the R&D involved is just throwing 'em on a car and driving around the block, then $200 for springs is about $180 too much.
And as soon as someone has an '05 w/ springs on it, I'm sure Phil would love to get a ride. Problem is, he's the 1st one in our group to look at springs on an '05. Everyone else w/ an '05 has stayed stock or gone to coilovers.