For those of you who don't follow the suspension forum there is a thread for a company called road magnet, this was the frst time I heard of them, they gave some info on there background and there history with Lexus racing ect.. and they were talking about how they just redesigned J-body springs. So after talking to them a couple times they agreed to send me a set of springs, at no cost to me, for me to install and try out. I told them I would give em a shot. The deal was I would get the springs in the mail, try them for a while, give an unbiased review and then if I like them I buy them, if I don't I send them back. I have had RKSport prostreet coilovers, Tein Basics, Koni Yellows w/ Ground controls & Koni Yellow w/ sportlines. These will be installed on of my sets of Koni yellows (Road magnet recomends yellows with these springs, but I'm sure D-specs will work just as well.)
Keep in mind, I have nothing to gain or lose in this situation, I'm not sponsored by them, I'm not afiliated with them, and I'm not being compensated by them. This is simply a try it before you buy it situation, which IMO is a great customer service gesture. They have to have quite alot of confidence in there product to risk a bad review and not even get a sale.
Only down side thus far is the timing, I either install them this monday or after the new year, with the holiday weekends coming up fast my schedule is getting crazzy, I'm gonna do what I can to get them in monday.
I did the butt test (sit on one spring and bounce a bit) they definetly aren't the overly high spring rates you get with cheap springs, they feel like they will be a comfy non bouncy ride. I will keep people updated in the suspension forum but yeah Anyways.... the initial pics
btw..... the original thread --->
http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=3&i=116979&t=116979&p=1
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right on
but ill stick to the Ground Controls
15.1@90.34mph
my silver cav is sticking with Koni/ground controls, its more of a show car then anything so its slammed low. The daily driver/auto X cav I'm interested in new springs, I liek my sportlines but they are just a tad to bouncy for my liking without having to make the struts to firm. If these give a more comfortable ride then the sportlines I will be switching. It seems really difficult to find a nice ride with a decent drop on a j-body.
not so free brandon...read carefully
Darkstars wrote:
The deal was I would get the springs in the mail, try them for a while, give an unbiased review and then if I like them I buy them,
...i'm considerin goin w/ GC's this spring
Neat.
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StreetDreamZz wrote:not so free brandon...read carefully
Darkstars wrote:
The deal was I would get the springs in the mail, try them for a while, give an unbiased review and then if I like them I buy them,
...i'm considerin goin w/ GC's this spring
there free for now though.
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good deal.......hope to see pics very soon!
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thats sweet. cant wait to hear the review. i just want to sit lower than my sportlines.
Member of J-body of Michigan.
I had H&Rs when I had my cav, gave a nice drop, and road great. Im deffinitly going with H&Rs again on the SS/SC, good pickup tho, deffinitly would like to read the review
ACav2Envy wrote:thats sweet. cant wait to hear the review. i just want to sit lower than my sportlines.
I am pretty sure Road Magnet springs are 2.2 drop front and rear. Eibach Sportlines are 1.7 front and 2.3 rear. Should sit lower in the front and about the same in the rear. The Road Magnet springs should still have a raked look. Kind of deoends on what look you are going for.
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FORGET GIRLS GONE WILD WE HAVE GOVERNMENT SPENDING GONE WILD!
I installed them today
if you didn't see my post in suspension from earlier today....
"Well I got the install done early this mourning. I'm going to save most of my comments and pics for a couple weeks till everything settles, then I will align it at work and take some pics and give more info. I don't want to give off the wrong impression form jumping to conclusions to quickly.
Couple quick comments...... horrible loud clunking form both sides of the rear suspension. One thing I do like about the sportlines is that te top smaller spaced coils hade rubber insulators on the spring which help keep them quite. The right rear had a faint but growingly more common clunk, after the install the right rear clunks liek a crazzy, and left rear clunks over moderate-to-big bumps. But liek I said I'm not going to jump to conclusions. I'm going to go ahead and get a brand new pair of rear strut mounts and throw them on, its no secret J body strut mounts are junk. So untill I swap the rear mounts I'll ignore the clunk.
But as for ride height, so far they are actually less of a drop then the sportlines, with the sportlines I drag the @!#$ out of my car going through the car wash at work...... as soon as I put the RM springs on I pulled around and went through the car wash and the car cleared but barely, but this again goes back to the whole having to settle.
First drive impression..... all I'm going to say is at this point I'm plesently surprised, so far so good, first impression is a good impression."
Hey you still gonna let me check them out after a couple of weeks have passed?
yeah not a problem, I'm preta ybusy through new years, get a hold me the weekend after we'll go for a ride
so after going through all that trouble for them they better not make you pay for them or send them back... IMO
I'll put up some pics after a week or so to make sure the springs settle or when i can line up a pic next to my sisters car. The gay tan cav is a base model 04 currently on the stock 14's, my sisters is a red bas model 04 always on stock 14's..... so it will be perfect comparison pic.
Stop playing with these build kits and just get the tein ss-p with the pillow ball joint! it does a hell of a lot better than all these cheap ass kits.
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