Posezion
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Yep, I've been debating wether to drop it first or replace the headlights with chrome spyder retrofits with CCFL halos, which comes up to 250$. Explained in other posts, I'm the type of guy who doesn't know crap until I get my hands dirty, and based on never have worked on suspension, I need to know if this is a "smart" choice. I know you could say "smarter" would be "better" springs, coilovers, whatever. So, basic question; do I got to do anything else to the car besides just dropping it? Would it be reliable? Pros/cons on the springs? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Also, please recommend me some springs, just checked cobalt-addiction and the site was down. If you're asking for my budget, I really want to stay under 300$, and spend around $150-200.
edit: And incase you havn't noticed, I'm a cheap person when I can be, lol, girlfriend is in the Navy so that's the only reason I'm even re-opening my thrive to work on my car. Anyway; since I'm going to be taking my wheels off and be messing around with everything anyway, do you guys have any other techniques to paint my calipers yellow besides a caliper painting kit? Lol, perhaps G.M. replica spray paint from auto zone etc? Or do you all highly recommend a caliper painting kit.
Edit2: found the shocks I was looking at. http://cobalt-addiction.com/handling.htm CA #1 (Yellow ones at bottom of page in the Springs category). Yellow car, yellow shocks, in budget, good sounding drop (NON SS - 1.75" front / 2.25" rear drop = good drop?). Think I should get them? If so, all I gotta do is get the shocks and throw them in and that's that, correct?
edit: And incase you havn't noticed, I'm a cheap person when I can be, lol, girlfriend is in the Navy so that's the only reason I'm even re-opening my thrive to work on my car. Anyway; since I'm going to be taking my wheels off and be messing around with everything anyway, do you guys have any other techniques to paint my calipers yellow besides a caliper painting kit? Lol, perhaps G.M. replica spray paint from auto zone etc? Or do you all highly recommend a caliper painting kit.
Edit2: found the shocks I was looking at. http://cobalt-addiction.com/handling.htm CA #1 (Yellow ones at bottom of page in the Springs category). Yellow car, yellow shocks, in budget, good sounding drop (NON SS - 1.75" front / 2.25" rear drop = good drop?). Think I should get them? If so, all I gotta do is get the shocks and throw them in and that's that, correct?
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