Vicks vs Vogtland lowering springs

[architect]

Greetings -

I have been searching the forum, and was wondering who has had experience with one of the following springs. I would like to order some soon to accommodate my new tire set up (205 / 50 / 15). I'm looking for at least a 2" drop on my bumper less 78 1800.

I'm thinking that... because I'm bumperless, the claimed drop of these springs won't be as accurate right?

Does anyone have either set up with pics?

Are there better or other options out there?

Any advice would be awesome. Thank you

Vicks (1" only?)
http://www.vickauto.com/newstore/index. ... ts_id=3391

Vogtland (1 1/2"?)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/282083166472

[davery]

Greetings -

I have been searching the forum, and was wondering who has had experience with one of the following springs. I would like to order some soon to accommodate my new tire set up (205 / 50 / 15). I'm looking for at least a 2" drop on my bumper less 78 1800.

I'm thinking that... because I'm bumperless, the claimed drop of these springs won't be as accurate right?

Does anyone have either set up with pics?

Are there better or other options out there?

Any advice would be awesome. Thank you

Vicks (1" only?)
http://www.vickauto.com/newstore/index. ... ts_id=3391

Vogtland (1 1/2"?)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/282083166472

I don't have any experience with either of these. I installed AR lowering springs with deleted OEM bumpers on my 85. I did not notice any lowering. Of course. I removed the bumpers at the same time as installing the lowering springs, maybe they offset each other? I have heard claims of saving a bunch of weight fro removing the OEM bumpers and the figure of 100 lbs is quoted. I'm pretty sure the OEM bumpers don;t weigh anything near 100 lbs. I didn't weigh them, but would guess around 40-50 lbs.

[Smittyspider]

I'm also interested in this thread... I just ordered Vick autosports 1" springs, but I also just changed over to early bumpers. I would guess the front came up at least an inch with the new bumpers. On the Vick site, they say that the springs will need to be trimmed to achieve a lowered height with early bumpers on a later car, so I'm wondering how much? Anyone have experience with how much to trim of the front and rear springs to achieve a roughly 1-1.5" drop?

[architect]

So I took a recent trip to Vicks... and they made it very clear that there really is no way to predict the drop...

To put into perspective (somewhat quoted) your car over the years will settle, and eventually "lower" itself over time. So replacing the springs is very unpredictable and could possibly raise the car! Going bumperless def doesn't help

In the end, you may have to do some trimming. That's the route I'm going.


P.S. Matt over there at Vicks is an awesome dude!

*edited bc of autocorrect

[So Cal Mark]

the Vogtland springs are basically the euro springs but with a progressive rate. The euro cars did not have the large double tube US bumpers so the ride height will be what the euro cars had as delivered.
It's very basic to determine ride height with new springs, measuring from the ground to the wheel well opening and taking into account the tire diameter. I'm not surprised Vicks can't calculate that, they're not very technical

[Tom1B]

I have vogtland springs with Osrav shocks.
Pics : http://www.fiatspider.com/f15/viewtopic ... 07#p267907