TRD lowering springs in a JPN-built 2.4 Gen 6

[ustderek]

Just got the springs installed last week and the car looks so much better than the shopping-cart-style before!

I'll share pics of my car soon... and have a few questions:

1. I notice the ride is a lot more bouncy. Is that the TRD springs outplayed my stock shocks?

2. To make it less bouncy I plan to get US-built SE shocks for 2.4, do they fit my JPN-built?

3. Will only swapping the shocks solve the problem? Do I need to swap in SE bushings/stabilizer bars etc?

[james399]

Originally Posted by ustderek

Just got the springs installed last week and the car looks so much better than the shopping-cart-style before!

I'll share pics of my car soon... and have a few questions:

1. I notice the ride is a lot more bouncy. Is that the TRD springs outplayed my stock shocks?

2. To make it less bouncy I plan to get US-built SE shocks for 2.4, do they fit my JPN-built?

3. Will only swapping the shocks solve the problem? Do I need to swap in SE bushings/stabilizer bars etc?

trd spring = stiffer spring = bouncier ride.... you don't have shocks on your car, they are struts,
if you change your springs, you should upgrade your struts... dunno, if the se is any different from stock..

swapping out stabalizer bars bushings etc will only make your car stiffer...

[white07cam]

i would leave it the way it is

because there are no aftermarket struts a lot of guys around here just run springs (eibach, trd, tein, H&R) without upgrading. Im not sure if the SE struts are any different than other models, I think it's just the springs are a little different

[njerald]

Originally Posted by white07cam

i would leave it the way it is

because there are no aftermarket struts a lot of guys around here just run springs (eibach, trd, tein, H&R) without upgrading. Im not sure if the SE struts are any different than other models, I think it's just the springs are a little different

More wrong stinking thinking.

[james399]

Originally Posted by njerald

More wrong stinking thinking.

man i wish they had aftermarket struts for us gen 5ers...

i know the life of my struts are going to be uber short considering the kyb's are gas but only stock replacments...
*sigh*

edit: what i wouldn't do for a set of tokicos for us gen 5ers... i have eibach and trd's on my gen 4, and tein's and kyb's on my gen 5...