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I'm looking around for some lowering springs and from reading multiple threads I can't get the answer I'm looking for I'm trying to find out which springs. Give u the most drop some say h&r but then I read on the description on eibachs and it has more inches lower than h&r . Anybody have experience on these two springs I'm just trying to find out which ones lower the car more .
 

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This is going from memory from what I read years ago, but I think the Eibachs dropped the car lower than the H&R springs at least in the front (something like .5" more) but it seems like H&R made some newer batches of springs that dropped the front as low/lower than the eibachs

I will let someone else chime in to tell me I remembered wrong, but that is what I know.

Enless you are trying to slam the car, either should work good for you. I have the Eibachs on my car and they have worked good for me.
 

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Are you running - or planning to run - plus sized wheels/tires? If so, you're going to run into a lot more work than slapping some springs in there and calling it a day. Wider/larger rear wheels will certainly result in fender and trailing arm rub, and the front will likely rub the inner fender liners on hard turns. I personally have H&R's installed on mine. Use the search and read all the shit I went through to make these work with my 19x10 rears with 275 rubber. It was a lot more messin' around than just a spring swap.
 

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Well I installed them about a month ago and the drop is perfect I have no fender gap at all the tires I run are 285/35/18 and front 255/35/18 and have no rubbing issues and recently one of my rear tires got flat so I had to put my extra tire which is a 245/45/18 and I thought I was gona have a rubbing issue but I didnt all I need now is an alignment. But it did make a big diffrence from stock to h&r springs and the mighty mouse spacers
 

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Further evidence to support me theory (from a few years ago) that H&R aren't producing a consistent product. Back when I got mine, the rear dropped so much that my 19x10 wheels were rubbing on my trailing arms on turns, and the 275/30 tires got nicely gouged by my fenders on on/off ramp bumps. It took a lot of F'n around to get shit right, but it's all been good since then.
 
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