G'day everyone

My good ol' ae82 starting to go soft (really soft) and was wondering what spring/inserts people have used for perfect tuning! it does a little bit of motorkhana and khanacross but is also a street driven car so if you could just tell me what ya have under your beast and how she handles that would be tops! :P

 

Cheers Corey

I have in my ae82 twincam

 

Rear

 

Stock height king springs.

KYB dampers.

White line adjustable sway bar.

Custom wheel alignment.

 

Front

 

Stock twincam springs.

KYB dampers.

Stock sway bar.

And again a custom wheel alignment.

 

Sticks to the road like shit to a blanket.

 

Keeping the sway bar settings and wheel alignment settings to myself too many hours put in to tell.

awesome thanks for that but i have 4ac model so can i fit twin cam springs to my struts front and back and are the standard twin cam springs any more heavier??

 

Cheers Corey

awesome thanks for that but i have 4ac model so can i fit twin cam springs to my struts front and back and are the standard twin cam springs any more heavier??

 

Cheers Corey

You need twincam struts to fit twincam springs. Not sure if they are heavier or not. I don't think the SOHC models had a front sway bar either.

ohh ok do you think that is worth doing and is there any mods to do it? and just checked yeah it dosnt have a front swaybar :P

not only are the springs different but where the bottom of the strut bolts onto the hub is different also.. i found out the hard way :P

:yes: but can they be modded to fit??

Put in a front sway bar, Leave the springs till later.

they can, which is what i did, but it ended up about 4 inches higher than stock!!

is it really that the springs of twincam can't be fit to the soch?

In my SOHC I have the struts from a DOHC with super low King springs, the SOHC hub, the DOHC strut brace and just threw in some OZ tec bushes, all old and saggy but the bushes made a big difference.

new to the boards... Ive got a US model AE82 FX16 GTS and I want to find some springs to drop the little hatch, can anybody point me in the right direction for a set...

I got a ae82 sohc with 4ac engine. I will soon be upgrading to 4age.

I have already upgraded the brakes from a ae94 and before do the engine conversion i want to upgrade my suspension.

I got a mate who just bought red koni adjustable shocks and they are friggen awesome now i want some too.

 

I got dohc strut braces waiting to get installed but i need 4 bolt struts.

 

Is there anyway i can put twin can struts in my sohc corolla?

Or does anyone have other idea's? I just want the car to be about 1.5 inch lower with harder suspension with tight handing

Ok, sohc doesn't have sway bar - can get aftermarket ones from whiteline, or get one off a wrecked twinky. The front hubs (so i learnt today) will accommodate twinky springs/shocks (which are the same as ae92 springs/shocks) save for the ae82 top hat. This means that theoretically, you could run ae92 sx/gti springs shocks, with ae82 top hats, with no issue. At the back, i'm asking how hard is it to run ae92 uprights - as in to allow far again, the use of ae92 spring/shock combination. If you do run the ae92 shock, then you can get koni shocks, which as johno said, are rather shiny indeed (btw they are koni YELLOWS johno - lol). The reason why you can't bolt up ae92 struts straight away, is due to the fact that the bolt holes are an extra half inch apart on an ae92 upright.

new to the boards... Ive got a US model AE82 FX16 GTS and I want to find some springs to drop the little hatch, can anybody point me in the right direction for a set...

If you can get them, run whiteline or lovells...both australian - but whiteline deffinietly can send them (not sure about lovells). you'll find you're running the equivalent to a twinky (dohc 'twincam') setup in it

 

Cheers

Edited September 3, 200818 yr by Bowler