Coilover vs. Lowered Spring/Shocks

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Springs installed! Very pleased and love the look. Pictures to come soon.

Did you do springs all four sides? Are you sticking to your original plan? Mine will come next week.

[Aaron_Angstadt]

I stuck with just the four springs. Didn't change the shocks in the back. They are awesome. Love the new height and rides so smooth. I thought it would be really stiff but they aren't. It does corner so much better like everyone says.

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Got my springs last night. They came well packaged.


All American from Germany


The inside of the box


The spring itself.


I plan to show the old springs next to the new ones. I went by and ordered the links from the strut to the anti-sway bar. I cut out my old ones as I had put in Rabbits Adapter Kit.

[cool-aveo]

Don't forget to post before and after pictures.

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Don't forget to post before and after pictures.

Ah, he does not know me....he he he

I got my shocks last night.



Now waiting on the tie-rods. Going to try and do my ride video showing of the coil-overs and the ride. Corners great just not comfortable on the ride.

[northguest47]

just waiting on the bars, looking forward to making the suspension swap too, and leftover parts from my build can still lower yet another aveo

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I got all the parts. I took my video. I need to finish stabilizing the shots, edit, and then upload. I am in Atlanta taking care of GF and Easter. She just had surgery, so it will be a couple of days before I can post anything.

[petrified.rabbit]

Hope she is well.

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Hope she is well.

Thank you Rabbit. That is very kind. She had hand surgery for arthritis in her thumb. You can see the bruising in her arm from the anesthetic block and from the surgery.

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So I am working on video in post production. Before edits, I need to massage the video to get it to be acceptable. I got a lot of high frequency shake on my inside camera mount and outside camera mount. The only mount that held up with my professional Sticky Pod mount. You should have seen me sticking my not cheap 300 dollar Canon G-12 on the side of the car.

So here is a series of three articles that might be helpful to the forum and those following. This is all from a bicycle forum (Shelden Brown Rocks) on doing video stabilization. A lot of the same principals apply.

Link one on the basics:
Image Stabilization for Bicycle Video

Link two on video processing:
VirtualDub Video Processor

The above link is needed before you can dive into this free tool:
Using Deshaker for Image Stabilization of Bicycle Video

So I will have done several days of post processing before I even begin to edit. Here is a picture of the cool shots I was getting: