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Old Oct 9, 2008, 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Spoolin11
I will be honest and say I was a very apprehensive about purchasing a set of springs that were going to lower the car an equal distance all the way around. As most of us know the wheel wells in the front of the car are slightly larger than the rear so if a car is lowered equally then it may appear that the car is much lower in the rear than the front. The reality is that the car is not lower in the front, it is just an illusion. With that said Jamie informed me that through all the R&D WORKS had done they felt that lowering the car equally will allow all the suspension components to remain as Mitsubishi intended while still allowing for improved ride quality and performance.
If you lower the car equally in the front and rear, I don't see why it would look lower in the rear? It should retain the stock front-to-back geometry, just sitting equally lower (what...9/10"?), and thus looking like stock, only lower. Looking at your pics, it doesn't in fact look any lower in the back to me, than the front. IMO, it looks fine.
Knowing what the spring rate is would help people figure out if they want them or not. Even just knowing how much heavier of a spring they use over stock would help

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Old Oct 29, 2008, 05:22 PM
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The .9 springs are great but I recently upgraded to adjustable coilovers, if anyone is interested in a set of slightly used .9" springs, please PM me.
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does anyone have pictures of the 0.5 inch drop? would these springs work on MR?
Old Nov 5, 2008, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by LVSBB6
does anyone have pictures of the 0.5 inch drop? would these springs work on MR?

I think that second ww evo is an mr, pm the person who posted, and the works site says that these springs will work with both the mr and gsr.

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These springs do work on an MR. I have the .9 on mine.
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Isn't it Works that makes seperate springs for both the MR and GSR on both ride heights?
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From an email conversation with jamie@works (hope he doesn't mind me posting it here)

"As far as the springs themselves, we have one set that was engineered
for both models. Initially, plans were to have two sets (like we have
available for the EVO VIII/IX) for the different shocks/struts. We went
as far as ordering the MR-specific Eibach springs from Mitsubishi well
before the MR would actually arrive here in the states. Based on what
we learned with the OEM springs rates, the results of our in-house shock
dyno testing and previous experience with the KYB and Bilsteins, we felt
it appropriate to use a single design amongst the two models.

At WORKS there's no "use it because it almost fits" attitude. If we
need a model-specific application, we'll design one. Unfortunately,
others have used this philosophy with the previous MR/GSR spring
variation and suffer by having the rear end of the MR chassis sit higher
than what was called for."
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Works needs to update their website to reflect same
Don't have a problem with their position if in fact the rates are close enough to allow proper utilization of both shock valving differences. I thought that the upper or lower mounts were different between the two struts and therefore required a little different winding of the spring ends.

Why would the rear ride height differ in the previous MR? Shock valving in the MR is stiffer?

Stock, the Evo X has a .75" rake biased towards the front as measured from the underside of the car at the ends of the front and rear side rocker panels. Works seems like the only one who lowers the car equally front and rear. Cobb, Eibach and Swift have different rakes. Don't know why they all choose something different as they all say their springs were developed specifically for the car.
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