Raised spindles, How to properly do it? Options

[914_1.8t]

I want to go this route, but need to know who sells them? I've been unable to find it on the net. (for a SC front suspension)

Also, how difficult is it to do on your own and how exactly is it done? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif)
Does any one have any detailed pics of a raised spindle shock/strut?

[914_1.8t]

hmmm.... i need to see which ones I have in the car.

But i'm thninking about the strut  chop option.  It seems the leaset difficult and probobly something I could do myself.  Wouldn't really mess up suspension allignment.  But I guess it will always have the shock copressed a little more (whatever the amount chopped is).  But a few inches should not hurt the shocks too much I guess. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

914_1.8T,

I think if you chop the strut, you really need different inserts..... Just lowering a car (too much) will cause you to blow struts much more often. A friend of mine had a track car with Koni struts that he had to buy new front shocks for every season becuase he had his car dropped too much.

how low do you want to go.
You can just turn the adjuster screw and get a car pretty dang low (enough to blow shocks out) without all of this fiddling.....

brant

wow....this seems a like a lot of extra trouble to get the car to sit low. My situation is that I got some 180's in the back and they really lowered the car...actually i like it nice and low. I wanted to get the front equally low so the back of the car is not lower than the front. When I did this the front suspension has almost no travel left. Initially i thought about running 15" rims in the front (instead of the 16's which are on the car now) with lower profile rubber...that way I could raise the car a little and still have it sit low and have enough travel.

Now I've decided to put 18's on the car...since I have a set sitting that I am not using. They are 18x8.5 fronts (with 225/40zr18) and 18x9.5" rear (with 265/35zr18). So bumping the tire/rim size down is no longer an option. That is why I want the lowered spindles.

By the way, here is a pic of the car at it's present ride height (which is how low i want to be with the 18s):