Finally my car is drop

Finally my car is drop

I just got my k-sport installed and dropped it down a couple of inchs.
The handling is awesome but I still got a little tunning to do regarding coil preload and camber adjustments.

Here is the look of it before...
http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/...aZZE-110001.jpg

And after
http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/...aZZE-110003.jpg

Here is the stock front strut assembly next to the k-sport
http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/...aZZE-110005.jpg

And the rear strut next to k-sport
http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/...aZZE-110004.jpg

Sorry for the steel rims and winter tire but I did get a
chance to mount my toyo proxes on my old school 14s''
hehe... no rubbing in sight

Hope the pictures work.... it's the first time I get to post
some and just learned how to do it lol

yup the pictures work just fine. the car looks much nicer too with the drop. how do you like the feel of it?

verry nice set up looks good

Nice drop, I wish I have this setup too.
If you haven't read these 2 threads yet, I recommend that you read them both. About how to fix the problem that you're going to have very soon.
http://www.vvti.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12649
http://www.vvti.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12665

Ugh. I can't wait to get my H&R's and Tokicos on my car.... :sad:

The handling is perfect, the compression setup on the front shocks are set at standard position and the rear setup is half a turn tighter then standard. As far as springs go, the front springs are set without preload and again half a turn on the rings at the back.

It just sticks to the road whatever you do with the car, it's awesome!
As far as handling goes with that setting, the car behaves neutrally and when you push it to far, it even tends to overstear It's less forgiving but hell it handles like a dream.
It is much stiffer than original but that suits me right, my wife however doesn't like it all that much, she is 6 months pregnant and find it a little to stiff for her butts!! but believe me it's not that unconfortable.

I'm kinda old school and still ride on 14'' so I havent been able to rub the tires at all no matter how hard I tried. I just can't wait to instal my toyo proxes to be able to get the car on the edge.

As far as installing the thing, it was easier to instal all four struts then change the stupid OEM sway bar link assemblies it would have took 2 hours to do the four corners and it took an hour and a half just for the sway bar links. Stupid allen key to lock the bolt, what was Toyota thinking. I mean it's the second thing I find on my corolla that wasn't thought at all, this and the stupid pop rivet to hold the front speakers.

Nice drop.

You'd never really know how nice it performs until you autocross or track that baby!

I can't wait for the season to start
As far as the link problem, I solve mine with the help of my brain.... and it seem to work, I jammed the link between the spring compression ring and it's looking ring, along with tighting the 2 allen key on the bracket. It doesn't move at all and the sway bar doesn't rub at all plus the links are pointing directly downard so their is no change in geometry what so ever.
I jacked my car today after putting 200 km on it just to see if everything was still in good condition and tight and everything is perfect, I also checked to see if the spring compression rings were still at the right height, especially on the rear shocks because of the sway abr link brackets and they're still tight and in good position. The height of the car didn't change either so I guess I did a good job. I'll check them again soon just to confirm but as far as it goes everything is sweet