Eibach Pro kit or Sportlines?
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Thats a lovely drop! Are you running better struts or oem?adm87 said:I currently have skunk2 springs on mine. They give a fairly large drop. Something like 2.5" front and 2" rear from standard.
As I use mine all year round for all kinds of journeys, I'm actually hoping for some spoon rear springs to pop up at somepoint as when I start loading up the boot/get people in the back, it gets low!
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carl hammond
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Just go spoon springs on mugen showa shocks and job done, perfect stance, great feel, perfect height all first time round 
BataLeon
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So these? https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/222715468314?chn=ps&dispctrl=0&adgroupid=49522826281&rlsatarget=pla-572358399032&abcId=1128966&adtype=pla&merchantid=6995734&poi=&googleloc=1006886&device=c&campaignid=857333700&crdt=0carl hammond said:Just go spoon springs on mugen showa shocks and job done, perfect stance, great feel, perfect height all first time round
Where can you get the mugen showa shocks? can you run the Spoon springs on standard shocks or is that just a waste of time?
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Yeah, you can buy the Mugen Showa shocks new but they're about £800+ if you scour some pages on Facebook you can get a set for £350. The spoon springs are fine on OEM shocks but the Mugen's stiffen things up a bit.BataLeon said:
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Pm'd
carl hammond
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The Mugen and spoon setup is not stiff as such it's just right, perfect height/stance and a great feel for the road imo
Pm'd you (before buying anything if you'd reasonably local you can have a go in my car to see how it feels before the bilstein's go on).
You can put Spoon springs on OEM shocks, will sit a bit higher than mine does (see my build threat for it's current stands), the total drop on showa shocks and spoon springs is 40mm whereas the spoon springs alone reduce ride height by approximately 25mm, the showa's do an additional 15mm.
The spoon springs rates are as below:
•Spring rate – FRONT: 7.4 (2.8-4.6) kg / mm
•Spring rate – REAR: 8.2 (3.0-8.0) kg / mm
and I paid more than the ones you linked too and they have only covered 1800 miles since being fitted to my car - https://torque-gt.co.uk/product/spoon-progressive-lowering-spring-dc5/
They are great but for the best stance ideally you'd want the combo mentioned for the best stance and setup all-round imo.
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There seems to be a bit of an obsession on this forum with rear rake with the Eibach kit. I had it fitted for about 18 months on my first DC5 and I never once noticed it in real life. It's only in the past few years on here that it's constantly brought up that started to slightly notice it, and even then it's because I was looking for it in photos.
Liamneale69
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I‘ve got eibachs and like Chris has said I don‘t even notice the rake at all
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Ive got a set of black eibachs just remove from my car if your interested