[eslai]

My two cents, even though it probably is redundant at this point:

Lowering a car "on-the-cheap" will always give you unsatisfactory results. I personally say "don't screw with the suspension".

I've had a lot of experience with different suspension setups on my Eclipse. We did a lot of prototyping for different suspension setups for race and street, especially trying to find a cost-effective and viable setup that could perform well on both the street and track. We used off-the-shelf springs from different manufacturers, specific monotube coilovers, different control arms, bushings, an odd assortment of sway bars--even custom fabbed some parts on a lathe in our quest.

After a lot of experimentation we ended up with a setup that would cost people about $4000 and handle like a dream, but would still be more harsh than most people would want to use on a daily basis unless they were pretty hardcore about turning. I was shooting for performance, not looks, but yes, the car was nicely lowered.

My point is, it takes a lot of money to do things right in this area (imagine if I had been doing all that on a Porsche...yikes!). If you just want the car to look better, don't slam it, go the wheel route like SD987 suggested. If you start tweaking with the suspension, you're going to end up with a sore ass and a scraped front bumper, along with a polarizing look (I hate the look of a wheel slammed up into the fender, but still having massive gaps fore and aft of the tire).

Keep in mind as well that just lowering the car on springs is going to screw up your camber, reduce shock travel, pound you in the back, and potentially lower your roll center enough to really screw with your overall suspension geometry. You might end up with an unpredictable or just plain poorly-handling car.

By the way, I have PASM on my 987 and I disagree with SD987--I can easily see the difference between PASM and non-PASM-equipped cars, but I don't think the standard ride height looks bad, personally.