Which to get H&R or Eibach Pro spring Kit

[DirtyDog]

Hi all.
I know this has been covered loads , but I'm bored, Its pi*@#ng it down outside and I thought about time I went and had a look at Bella and give her some love...
So my main projects last year -
Get the 78's refurbished.
Upgrade to the larger vented disk & calipers set up rather than the stock solid disk.
Space the wheels out.

Now this has all been done, I really need to drop the car , the gap between the wheel arch and top of tyre looks huge
I want to order some over the weekend so any feedback would be greatly received.
Can these be fitted to the standard shock absorber set up??

The popular option seems to be the Eibach route with a listed drop of up to 30mm, but H&R are also a upgrade people have used, again they list this at 30mm drop.
Apex are the cheapest, but I think the 40mm drop would be a little too much.

@Shortie_gal - am I right you have the H&R set up on your Zed, I love how your car sits,did you get 30mm drop with them or was it more?

Both are priced roughly the same when you look around, Is one better than the other or have most people gone the Eibach route, purely because it is tried and tested by more people?

Once I start to work on the car I will also look at the shocks themselves to see if they are past their sell by date,
the car has done around 60,000 now. I would love a set of Bilstein B8's but I dont think the piggy bank will stretch to that,I think it will be the standard Sachs shocks unless there is a massive improvement using the B8's. Im not a fast driver in the Zed so it maybe a pointless upgrade?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401438129822?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&fromMakeTrack=true

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stosdampf...175840&hash=item58f26dc593:g:DSAAAOSwB-1Y3hqU

Any feedback
Cheers

 

[5harp3y]

I've got eibach 30mm and Bilstein b4

Check my build thread for details .

I drive fast and the setup is perfectly capable

 

[Shortie_gal]

Hey! Yeah i have H&R springs but ended up more like 35mm drop which looks cool! I have 18inch alloys now and i dont scrape. Only on huge speed bumps i have to go slow... the 17inch alloys i scraped quite a lot.

If you havent changed your shocks etc already then you will need to do these too as most probably will be knackered! Look at bushes and bits too. Worth doing them all while youre therr! You can have a looksie at my build thread on the forum

 

[Ludger Kieven]

I've checked different variations in My Zeds.
Both, a Coupé and my Roadster are 3,0.
When i bought the Coupé it drove nearly perfect, but the absorbers and springs seemed to be too soft and the car not low enough. So i bought Bilstein B8 and H&R springs.
Totally good! Few month later someone offered a set of brandnew Eibach springs, i bought and changed the setting! What a mess! Too soft for a sportscar, i rechanged to H&R.

Five years later a Roadster was owned with standard setting. I changed the original springs and took H&R in combination with original Sachs damps.The result: very hard and very good on perfect roads! But roads are mostly too bad for this conditions. So i took a complete Bilstein B12 (B8 damps and Eibach springs). For me, the best result in a Roadie!
Driving the Coupé is much more sportive than the Roadie ! That's why i accept the diffence!

Sorry for my bad english!

 

[Shortie_gal]

Yeah i have sashs with the h&r spring. Great handling but i do feel a lot of bumps. Lol

 

[Nodzed]

I've used -30 Spax springs and Bilstein B8s twice now, very happy with the results

 

[andyglym]

Bilstein B12 shocks and Eibach 30mm lowered springs on mine. Work well but no other makes as a reference.

 

[BMBabe]

Owwwww @DirtyDog you getting stuck in to some mods
I hear a Aylesbury Zed Spanners day