Friday, July 13, 2007

New Suspension

I found a slightly used set of Koni Adjustable struts and Ground Control Coilovers. I took off from work the 2 days after July 4th so I could have plenty of time to get them installed. I foolishly picked the hottest part of the summer, and despite the name of this blog, I have no shade to work in.




Here it is, the last sane moment, before all hell broke loose.




No turning back now!



Stock Fronts:




Stock Rears:




My wife took these to prove that I did it all myself. If you look closely, you can see the sweat dripping off my face:




Torn apart fronts:



Completed Fronts:



Completed Rears:



2 days later:




I didn't run into any major issues. Just took a lot longer than I expected only because I've never done anything like this before. Only had to make one trip to the parts store and that was just to borrow a set of spring compressors.