[der Geist]

I just got in my 18" chromes and while I was putting them on I thought I would snap a quick pic so whoever wanted to could compare the 17" & 18" side by side. The car is lowered about 1 1/4" with coilovers. My $.02 on the lowering springs vs coilover is this-If you are going through all the trouble to take the entire suspension apart it just doesn't make sense to not do the coilovers. With lowering springs you have additional labor, while coilovers cost a bit more than springs. There are at least 2 companies now that sell coilovers for around $1100.00 delivered. The advantage to the coilovers is that you can adjust the height in a matter of minutes and with the lowering springs you have a major job to get the car back up to the US height. You also have the advantage of adjusting the stiffness of the coilover with ease for street/track/autocross. I was just in Germany last week and I did see a number of Porsches buzzin' around the streets of Berlin in the snow all of them with Euro spec ride height and they looked so much better than the US height.