i didnt cut mine at all, was i suppose to? maybe thats y my car still seems high

 

i did cause i was looking at the hotchkis bumpstops and they are tiny... so i just cut to make them about the same.

 

can i cut them without taking the struts out again?

 

nope.. u have to take them completely apart again... thats what sucks...

 

ugh, i wish i knew that before hand, i knew i read it, and competely forgot when i put my spings on

 

ScionDave...you got them in spec WITHOUT adjustable camber links, right? Just using the adjustability stock in our cars?

jonathan...I have not installed s.Techs, but I installed a set of h.Techs, which are not even as low, and we had to cut the stock bumpstops almost in half...like it says to do in the instructions...

 

yeah just the spings on the oem struts, and got it to spec w/ stock adjustability, correct.

 

h-techs about a few months old

 

 

so hold on if you cut the bump stops i'll make your car a little lower? my s techs do sit higher than my buddies

 

well got the trd's on, new eyelids, some cleaning up, figured i'd snap some shots
factory
TRD's

 

super clean, son!

 

cuttin the bumpstops just allows the shocks more room for travel so they are less likely to bottom out.

when did you install your springs?
did you let them settle before you compared?

 

x2! In fact, I adjusted the car myself (I am an automotive technican) There is still room left for me to adjust rear camber. Right now as my car sits my rear camber is at -1.0 degree on each side (I believe spec. is -.9) and my front camber is at -.7, and the spec up front is -.5 I believe. So I didn't need the adjustable camber links...

 

haha i put them on like a year ago. just compared them last week lol

 

well actually, i didnt have to adjust anything except the rear toe on the left side, other than that the front camber is about -.6º and the rear is -1.11º

 

Scion Jon and GQQSE13 's TRD settle pretty nice.
I can't decided between H Tech or TRD.

 

Get TRD dont void the warranty if you have one and they settle pretty nice. I just put mine on and they look great.

 

i was in the same bind but went TRD and glad i did as i couldn't beleive how nice the TRD would make it. and i still kidna have some problems in my driveway w/ my exhaust scraping (since i have the elbow angle on my drift spec exhaust. but its amazing what just throwing TRD's or any springs on will make your car look like

 

lowered about 2.5 inches with H&R coilovers, ill be going lower in a couple weeks.









ill be going about .5 in in the back back, and 1 in the front.