Just got my new tires and wheels mounted to day and my springs came in on wed. I'll be putting on the tires this week end and I'm going to try to install the springs on monday. I've been waiting to do this for about a year. I thought that I would wait to get a year under the car before I start to play. Two days after I bought my car the local dealer had a new Intrepid sitting out front that had been fixed up by a local custom shop. Boy it looked great!!!! It had 18" wheels, Eibach spring ( before they stopped them) dual exhaust tinted windows and all the emblems removed. I thought that car would sell in a day but it sat for months. Maybe the $36,000.00 price was the problem. Well I still thought that it was one of the best looking cars I have ever seen, but I new I could do it for a lot less money so I now get to start on mine(and my wifes)!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gonna post any pics???
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!
Well I got the tires & wheels on but didn't have time to install the springs. I'm going to try this monday. BTW the new wheels and tires are great. Just for your info they are 255-45-18 Michelin Pilots and the wheels are made by ALT. They are their AT159's and are 18x8. They look so much better than the stock 16's. I also like the 255's because you still have some side wall left. The right is still very good and you don't bend up your wheels as easy like when you run smaller side wall tires. Yes you give up some performance but this is a street sedan not some sports car. I'll post pictures when I'm done
The wheels I put on are a silver/alloy. I thought the chromes are a little to bright for my taste. The springs are from Dreamspeed and are a spring that they are letting me have to try. They are about 1.5-1.75 inch drop. After I install them we will try them out for drop as well as ride quality. We don't want a harsh ride, but these may be a little soft well have to see. If all works out he will be selling springs and swaybars for the car. His line up at this time is Stratus and Neon stuff.
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Hope those springs work out. I'm flirting with the idea of lowering my car.
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I saw a second gen Intrepid the other day that looked like it had been lowered?? It looked much sleeker for some reason, and that may have been the reason....
OK Guys, If alll goes well I'll have the springss in on monday. I have a buddy that with at a shop and we were going to do it last monday but he had 3 cars show up with out appointments. And as he said "paying jobs come first" so we are shooting for this monday. Also this transaxle thing, well Performance West Group has a 300M with nitrous and has Intrax springs with 30,000 miles (hard miles) and has no problems. There is alot of talk about lowering these new LH cars. I posted a little info about this on the forum. (I think it was the general dis. forum)
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Hey DjPill,
I noticed you said your Intrepid has tints. Do you mean tinted clearcoat?
Shorerunner
I noticed you said your Intrepid has tints. Do you mean tinted clearcoat?
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I think those are in his "Future Wishlist Mods" in his signature
Well I have the springs on. Looks great-but. There seems to be an axle vibration at times. I'm working with Intrax and Dreamspeed to solve this problem. Seems like some LH cars have this problem. HR said they fixed it with motor mount spacers. We are looking at this as a fix, also talked to mopar performance and they think this may be the fix also or stiffer mounts. Luckly for us the mounts are very easy to get to on this car. I'll keep all posted as we get more info. Also I'll post pictures as soon as I can get the wife to show me how to do all this web stuff!
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