Way to go Kafka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

errr, I think I am in the same case as you, cause this afternoon I went to my garage and they said They do know how to drop an 8, my 8 should look like that but in awhile the car would eventually drop some more in the front, besides I am using the stock shocks and this is a critical reason causing the front gap of my 8 is way wider than the back.
I think I will need a set of new shocks if my car don't drop more in the coming future...

 

Millchan,

The Front springs are stamped: 11-55-00701-VA
The Rear springs are stamped: 11-55-00701-HA

 

+200000 Ya Hire Greg he's da man!! It's awesome how he works on cars all week and then comes out and still is willing to jump in and give a hand. After my week of working on a computer, last thing I want do to on my weekends is fixing other ppls computers.

 

I hear you bro, after an 8 hour shift of staring at my work computer, I find it a chore to boot up my computer at home lol

 

This is why my home PC is on 24/7 :D

 

thats because computers are crazy frustraing, and cars are just fun. well...not mine, but everyone elses is. lol. seriously, i would love to work at scarb mazda, but that would be one hell of a drive and i cant move out of my parents house...its too good of a deal living with them. lol.

 

Dude if I could live at home my car would be turboed by now lol or a 20b in it or both hehe.

 

Who said Id hire ya?!! Just kidding I'd make room to give you a job here!

 

ouch al. you cut me...you cut me deep. lol

 

guys just remember as mentioned before the 8 Sits LOWER in the back especially after you had people sitting in your back seat .......(i never take anyone in the back LOL) the springs and struts sit in more....Plus when you lower the car it sits in even more in the back. As for when the 8 is new, it actually sits the same front and back ....But due to the front wheel well being higher in design it looks like the front wheel has a bigger gap...........



so when i drop my car i think all i will need is get a front set of mazda speed springs.....and leave the back stock since it sits in low....

 

If you mix and match spring like that you may get the desired looked but your car handling will be evil...............ask me how I know.......

 

what al said.


when i did my suspension setup, i did it over two days after work. one day, i put on the front. then drove home. it was raining, and im used to playing in certain areas in the rain. beleive me, lowered front with stock back is dangerous as ****. my car was so tail happy, but it wasnt easy to recover like with all stock stuff. now i have the full package done and handling is very much like stock, just sharper and tighter. dont mix and match. period.

 

Guys,

First 12 hours of driving with it on... Eibach Pro-kit on Stock shocks

Mazda should have had these stock on the car. The handling is better. The smaller bumps are absorbed and doesn't jar through the chassis like the stock springs did.

However I must say that this is not an independent factor because I changed the eibachs at the same time I changed to my summer tires.

So far loving it, the rear is quite dropped already... the front still needs a little more dropping with settling. Now need to shop for 8.5" rims... for 2010 of course

Thanks to Al and Mazmark for doing this. Mark even touched up my paint calipers. I felt bad so gave him a tip off the record. hehehe

 

Gee I heard that somewhere before about the Eiback pro-kit for a street car, better ride and better handling without spending more money.......................lol

 

I put the car through 3 hours of grueling stop/go bumper to bumper traffic in GTA over the course of the rest of the day yesterday (DVP shut down)... I must have worked in the suspension pretty good!

There is less rebound, so when it goes over a bump, the spring doesn't stay compressed as long. I guess this is what you call "firm". For example, when I go over a speed bump slowly, it's now faster for the car to go up and down where as before, it floated up, and on the return, it actually recompresses slightly before reverting back to normal. With the eibachs, they do not go beyond normally compressed state.

In engineering/mathematics what I mean to say is the stock springs are like an "underdamped response graph" whereas the Eibach's are "critically damped"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping#System_behavior


I know this is common fact now, but I just want to rant that: Toronto's roads everywhere are in serious disrepair!!! It's appalling the amount of broken pavement all over the damn city as I drove in North York, Scarborough, Downtown, and Etobicoke all day.

 

So pay out of your pocket to get it fixed then!

 

It's already being done Al.. it's called my TAX PAYER's MONEY.

 

So whats the before and after look on the car??? PICS??????

 

Yeah, I'm waiting for some good weather so I could do my massive 7 hour spring detail before I take pics. The car is settling more in the front, and it pulls to the right under hard stopping and acceleration. It definitely will need an alignment done in a few weeks after it finishes settling.

Joshua, if you want, we can meet up just to shoot the ****... you know I'm in North York now, so closer to you.

 

hey footman, you wanna come out and compare both 8? I really do think....mine is really higher than the regular...

 

Mine looks great... definitely dropped.
I'm in North York, near Yonge/Finch. It's going to rain for the next 48 hours though.

 

um...I go yonge n finch very often. maybe the next shiny day then.

 

sure, you set up the meet then. Maybe others like HAYAKU would come.

 

lol...it's hard to set up a meet in mid town....there is no PARKING =.=" and drive thru...
the best spot i can think of is the parking right behind "finch" shopper...anywhere u can think of is better in that area?