King Lows on ZRE

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Took the day off work today and tried to be as productive as I could :P

Dropped the car a few fingers down and it's sitting pretty now.

I'll upload some photos soon when I can be bothered.

Product: King Lows all round

Place: Suspension City (41-43 Provost st, North Melbourne)

Price: $400

Time taken: approx 1 hour

Conclusion: I'm surprised at how crap the stock springs are. I was expecting ride comfort to diminish after I went to lower springs but I honestly believe it has gone the other way.

- Hard cornering is much flatter now.

- Steering feels sharper and more responsive.

- Car doesn't shudder and vibrate as much as before when I drive on cobblestones.

- Looks sex.

Edited August 14, 2009 by Saj

[master.Cuong]

nice mate keep it up !! Gonna get mine done soonish !

[1rocky]

Sounds great :yahoo:

looking forward to the pics

[flipsta24]

how many mm did yu drop it? I'm looking at droppin myne next week hopefully

[Leroy]

Nice touch putting the toyota centre caps on the wheels.

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Thanks :)

got those centre caps off ebay, nice and cheap.

havent measured the exact drop amount. the guy did mention something about 40mm.

[KevO]

i thought king lows were a 30mm drop. did you get them resetted to 40mm ?

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the guy "scragged" the springs before installing them. my understanding is that it is compressed to the max to try to squeeze a few more mm's out of it.

[johnnieboi]

nice work dude. missed you at the meet today. Shoulda came down. Been scoping out 18's at TTF lately.. saw yours on the rack. Lol.. soon.. soon

[SILVABULLIT]

Kings lows are 35mm drop. As for "scragging" I've never heard of it. the only way you can compress a spring to make it a larger drop is to heat the spring and reset it. the downside of doing this is the spring rate is changed usually making it stiffer but it can also de temper the spring steel and on the odd occasion the spring will lose it's temper all together and become very soft.

For those interested I can now get a hold of KYB's for the ZRE's at long last....

Front's - $172.38 ea RRP $213

Rears - $170.84 ea RRP $205

These have been proven to be a good replacement for stock struts with lowered springs on the ZZE's so would be the same on the ZRE's.

If you're interested PM me.

Cheers :)

[flipsta24]

hey saj you wouldnt happen to have the part numbers on the springs would you?

cheers

Charlie

[Jaaassseeee]

hey saj you wouldnt happen to have the part numbers on the springs would you?

cheers

Charlie

Should really try to google these things. Took me 1 minute.

Front Low: KTFL-119

Rear Low: KTRL-120

http://www.kingsprings.com/catalogue/kings...r_catalogue.pdf