SRT Spring Drop!

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Thu May 26, 2005 11:21 am

After a week it is still settling but i can see the front end is just about settled where as the rear keeps going down.

Here is a week old photo of the car.

eVilcreations · Post by **eVilcreations** » Thu May 26, 2005 12:16 pm

hmmm.....bigger wheels and tires needed? that's some pretty major wheel gap, but I bet it corners quite nicely now......

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Thu May 26, 2005 12:51 pm

I will take some more photos of it when its clean and under the sun and it looks totaly different. I dont know why it looks so jacked up on the photos.

Front to rears are exactly even and the gap is not as big as it seems.

But otherwise yeah it handles like a pro. SRT weight is 3100 and my neon is 2650 and with the srt springs you can notice the difference in ride. Its amazing. I guess i will be on the lookout for srt sway bars and then it should really drive like its on rails.

fflores · Post by **fflores** » Fri May 27, 2005 11:03 am

GTS wrote:I will take some more photos of it when its clean and under the sun and it looks totaly different. I dont know why it looks so jacked up on the photos.

Front to rears are exactly even and the gap is not as big as it seems.

But otherwise yeah it handles like a pro. SRT weight is 3100 and my neon is 2650 and with the srt springs you can notice the difference in ride. Its amazing. I guess i will be on the lookout for srt sway bars and then it should really drive like its on rails.

Ok.. i'm not tring to flame you or anything... i just want a better understanding for what you did, i've had a few people ask me for my struts and springs since i have Tein Coilovers now.

U'r a bit off onthe SRT weight, i've seen quite a few srt's go up on the scale with full interiors and drivers and come up weighting 2850... i believe u'r pretty close on the numbers on u'r neon...

Here are the stock srt springs... and i was just comparing it to the tein coil over springs...

Now.. i got rid of my suspension cause it just had TOO much give... too much body roll... while cornering, i didn't feel like, though the srt suspension is good, it wasn't good enough.

I would think that since the ride height on the srt is about the same as the ride height of a neon (except for the 17's) that you would actually end up with a bigger wheel gap because you car is lighter... I will be really suprised if you end up dropping any with srt springs...

On another not... i will probably be selling my SRT-4 complete strut and spring suspension, along with the sway bars soon.

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Fri May 27, 2005 11:40 am

I think that i saw the weight of the srt in one of the magazines, may have been with driver not sure but i know they are quite a bit heavier than the 2gns.

Your struts have a spring perched moved ~.5in higher in order to fit the 17s. People have tried to do direct SRT wheel tire package swaps and they rub really bad.

So your springs had to be shorter to fit in the strut and still give it the ride height.

So when i got my old ones out they were about 2 inches taller in the front and may be a 1in or so in the rear. but now because SRT springs are higher spring rate when compressed the ride is not 2 in lower but more along the lines of .5-1 in lower.

My springs were brand new and they are still settling and i am sure that after a few months it will even out even more.

SRT Springs + Struts will give no drop.
SRT Springs + Stock Struts is good for .5in and a kick ass handling.