if i get just lowering springs and only run on the street with a few auto-x then can i just drop em in or should i get them revolved. what are the benefits?

 

What? Revolve?

 

I'm lost.

But you just install the springs and go.

 

He or she is trying to write "revalve."

If you have a GSR, it's irrelevant, because you can't. If you have an MR, it depends on the rate of the new springs, but, odds are, it won't help and/or isn't needed. For example, one of the best replacement springs for Xs are GTWorks Tarmacs and then work just fine with stock-valve Bilsteins.

 

You can't on the Gsr's KYB's?
why not?
ok so you can just slap them on and good?

yes revalve. sorry.

 

Slap them on and get alignment!

 

ok thanks

 

In order to be able to revalve a shock, there must be a way to open it, change the shims on the piston-head, close it back up with the oil still inside, and then repressurize. This can be done with the Bilsteins from an MR (like almost all Bilsteins). It can't be done on the KYBs from a GSR (like a majority of OE shocks on any car).

 

gotcha. thanks

 

this is the first time i've heard of this. i'm sure it's going to work just fine but revalving the stock mr struts with gtworx springs should improve the handling characteristics of the evo. at least that's what everybody says.

i have my gtworx springs + mr strut combo at home. i was planning on sending it out to bilstein next month. stop me if i've been fed bs because revalving aint cheap. its around $450 for all four.

 

And don't skip the alignment.

You'll throw off your camber and SAI when you lower a MacPherson car.

When I put DMS 40s in my Celica GT-Four, I added Cusco camber plates so I could get the alignment right.
After a day or so of fiddling, I wound up with what may have been the world's only AWD Celica with no understeer.