First of all, the ground clearance with these TPiS long tubes is awesome to say the least! I'm about to pick up a BEAUTIFUL set of 17x9.5" Torq Thrust II's off of a buddy of mine for a GREAT price and am wanting to lower my car.

I will most likely be going with Bilstein HD's and I can't decide whether or not to go with the Prokit of the Sportsline from Eibach. I did come to the conclusion that a 1" drop wouldn't really be enough for me, so it's either going to be the 1.33" with the Prokit or the 1.75" with the Sportsline.

Does anyone have any first hand experience with TPiS long tubes along with either the Prokit or Sportsline? I'm quite sure that I can pull off the Sportsline with room to spare, but was just wondering if anyone had any first hand experience.

Thanks!

 

I'm sure somebody must have some input...

 

If you go with the sportlines, better make sure that there are no speed bumps or anything of that nature on your route I personally prefer the looks that the prokit gives better than the sportlines, plus you will have extra clearance. I know lots of people who run Hooker Long tubes with the prokits and clearance isn't a huge issue. Good luck.

 

cool thanks



anyone else?

 

I'm lowered over an inch and a half with the DMS springs and have the TPIS long tubes, I had issues with them clearing my steering linkage, and had to massage (beat with a hammer) one of the primaries per TPIS's suggestion to get it to clear.

Other than that I was quite happy with them until I pulled my motor a few days ago, to add to the issues they have apparently been hitting the car as I have a nice little dent on both od them, I would guess it's been hitting the crossmember from the location, as a side note the coating has come of in places and the coating itself has began to form suface rust.

Ground clearance as you mentioned is amazing, the only thing I have ever hit is the custom Y-pipe and the collector gasket scraped once as it hung out of the bottom of the flange about half an inch LOL! Speed bumps are not a problem for me personally, but I will admit that I'm quite careful.

 

Wheres the best place to find those DMS springs or the Eibachs? When I used to look at them back in the day, eBay had some good prices on them...don't know if that's still true...

 

don't know really there are so many places that sell Eibach, DMS sprins as far as I know can only be gotten from Dynamicmotorsports, pretty good people to deal with

 

Don't feel bad, I had my tpis headers coated by jet hot and within a year the coating started to flake off and rust by the collectors. I don't think there are too many coatings that really last long. Seems like a hit and miss. My slp shorties' coating by jet hot lasted longer.

 

id suggest getting the sportlines. i have them on my car, and ever since i put them on, every other camaro or firebird i see looks like its got a lift kit on it, lol.

i put on new bilsteins and koni dd shocks on when i did mine, and i actually scraped less on my headers. although i think it was due to my car having stock shocks and 100k+ miles on them.