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Now days with all the crazy air and hydraulic suspensions, people sometimes loose track of the basics to suspension lowering. You can simply add a nice set of lowered springs with a modest drop and achieve a clean look without loosing the ride of a stock suspension. This is easily done on most of today’s cars in an afternoon with just a few tools. This is what we did to my wife’s 2000 Toyota Celica GTS. It only took a couple hours one Saturday afternoon in the front yard with a few hand tools. He also used a couple air tools, which speed up the process a little. Even though this install is on this specific car, you can use pretty much all of the steps on just about any McPherson suspension car. Most people recommend the use of a lift and a spring compressor, but if your like me and don’t have access to all of that,
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you do what you gotta do to get the job done. We used a floor jack, jack stands and the leverage of the car itself to get this job done. The following pictures will show you most of the steps involved in this lowering job. For the set of springs, I chose a set of Goldline 1.5” drop springs, which were purchased for around $120. This with the use of 225/40-18 tires on a set of 18x8” wheels, these springs pretty much took out all of the nasty wheel gap and gave the car a cleaner, sleeker look. It also kept most of the factory ride. It also didn’t drop the car so far that it would kill the alignment, which would quickly eat through a set of tires. The day after the springs were installed, I took it to the local alignment shop and had it adjusted to insure good tire wear.
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