What did you do to your Fiesta ST today ?

[KenST]

^^^How deep was that crater?!?!

I’m thinking it was from this pothole I hit the day before, it was no signs that it was failing till I kept on hearing a thumping noise in the way from work. Pulled over checked under the hood seen nothing, popped the hood seen nothing till I took a glance upward.

(This is some of the reason why I want gravel rally strength, inverted front dampers, and bombproof top mounts, and no lowering. )

What happened?!?!?

Honestly have no clue I’m guessing it was the pothole I hit the day before, cause I didn’t hit any bumps leaving work.
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Were those oem or non-oem strut mounts?

Oem mounts with whiteline springs


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[TyphoonFiST]

Oem mounts with whiteline springs


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Aren't they made for OEM struts? How many miles on the struts? With and without springs?

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[KenST]

Aren't they made for OEM struts? How many miles on the struts? With and without springs?

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Around 8k without and about 37k with


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[J.andretti93]

Around 8k without and about 37k with

That is concerning... I have the same set up and similar mileage.



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[Dubcc]

2016 with 70,000 on stock suspension. I have swift spec springs arriving. I want to refresh the strut mounts and whatever else anyone thinks I should swap out while I’m in there. Can anyone point me toward a refresher kit? It doesn’t look like Ron has anything on his site. Mountune only has rear spring pads.

At the very least I probably want to replace the front strut mounts with my mileage?


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[Erick_V]

If I was in there I'd at least buy new strut mounts. Everything else should be ok. I'm super hard on my car with AutoX and other than some squeaky strut tops at low speed on my BC Coils (around 40k on them) nothing else has caused me trouble.

 

[M-Sport fan]

2016 with 70,000 on stock suspension. I have swift spec springs arriving. I want to refresh the strut mounts and whatever else anyone thinks I should swap out while I’m in there. Can anyone point me toward a refresher kit? It doesn’t look like Ron has anything on his site. Mountune only has rear spring pads.

At the very least I probably want to replace the front strut mounts with my mileage?


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With the pounding our rides take on the totally bombed-out roads in this state, and doing all of that work anyway, I would just throw some Bilstein B6es on with the Swifts since you have everything apart already (unless you really just cannot budget that right now).

Of course there are many on here who claim that combo actually negates the lowering of the Swifts, which in my case/needs, I WISH were true, since I want the higher spring rate of the Swifts, without any lowering at all, or very minimal (like under 0.50") lowering.

 

[ronniec687]

I installed this sunday with my shift knob I made myself back in 06

 

[Dubcc]

With the pounding our rides take on the totally bombed-out roads in this state, and doing all of that work anyway, I would just throw some Bilstein B6es on with the Swifts since you have everything apart already (unless you really just cannot budget that right now).

Of course there are many on here who claim that combo actually negates the lowering of the Swifts, which in my case/needs, I WISH were true, since I want the higher spring rate of the Swifts, without any lowering at all, or very minimal (like under 0.50") lowering.

So how much lower is the Bilstein / Swift combo than stock?


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[M-Sport fan]

So how much lower is the Bilstein / Swift combo than stock?


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Swift claims a full inch, even with those dampers, but many on here who have that setup claim that it is actually 0.0"-0.25" lowering.

 

[Dubcc]

Swift claims a full inch, even with those dampers, but many on here who have that setup claim that it is actually 0.0"-0.25" lowering.

So how much will my car be lowered with the Swift / stock struts?? Hopefully more than a quarter inch!


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[LiLfieSTa]

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oof Ken, i just felt my heart sink

 

[M-Sport fan]

So how much will my car be lowered with the Swift / stock struts?? Hopefully more than a quarter inch!


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Most who have that combo do claim a full inch lowering, or very close to it.

It is the oft disputed, back and forth flame wars which state some static ride height raising, or not, ONLY with the Bilstein dampers (and NOT the Koni Sport yellows).

 

[Erick_V]

Coolant flushed, vacuumed the car, greased the slide pins and then these grippy boys came in. Stoked to get them mounted later this week

 

[Ludeem1]

Put in the chubby drawer looks awesome

 

[Fiestig]

Most who have that combo do claim a full inch lowering, or very close to it.

It is the oft disputed, back and forth flame wars which state some static ride height raising, or not, ONLY with the Bilstein dampers (and NOT the Koni Sport yellows).

B6/Swift lowering is near 1". 7/8" at install to be exact. Tis perfect for me. I will load some pics tomorrow. The only reason stocks would be different is how worn the stockers are. I had just installed new stock struts with swift springs to start and the lowering was 3/4" at install. The ride was fine, but the b6/swift ride is just so much better that I wouldn't waste my time with stock struts/shocks

 

[Mikey456]

B6/Swift lowering is near 1". 7/8" at install to be exact. Tis perfect for me. I will load some pics tomorrow. The only reason stocks would be different is how worn the stockers are. I had just installed new stock struts with swift springs to start and the lowering was 3/4" at install. The ride was fine, but the b6/swift ride is just so much better that I wouldn't waste my time with stock struts/shocks

Good info ^^ Are you staying with the B6/swift combo or still experimenting?


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[M-Sport fan]

B6/Swift lowering is near 1". 7/8" at install to be exact. Tis perfect for me. I will load some pics tomorrow. The only reason stocks would be different is how worn the stockers are. I had just installed new stock struts with swift springs to start and the lowering was 3/4" at install. The ride was fine, but the b6/swift ride is just so much better that I wouldn't waste my time with stock struts/shocks

This has me wondering what all of the members on here did 'wrong' on their installs, when they claim (and show pics of) little to no lowering at all over factory, even AFTER any 'settling', with that same Swift/B6 combo.

If this is an actual 100% of the time case (the 7/8" to 1" actual lowering) this combo lowers way too much for my uses, even with 1/2" top mount spacers.

 

[Fiestig]

Good info ^^ Are you staying with the B6/swift combo or still experimenting?

I was going to do the whiteline/b6 as well, but I really don't want to any longer now that I know that it is going to be plenty lower than I want. I honestly should have done the whiteline/b6 first knowing that I probably had nowhere to go but up moving to the swifts. We'll see. I still have FiST #2 that I could do the whitelines on.

This has me wondering what all of the members on here did 'wrong' on their installs, when they claim (and show pics of) little to no lowering at all over factory, even AFTER any 'settling', with that same Swift/B6 combo.

I read this so many times that this is what I suspected it would be, but it simply isn't in my case and swifts are within what is advertised for drop. I did not use rear urethane spring pads. Just new stock pads, which would equate to probably about an 1/8 difference in drop over urethane. I also didn't reuse the stock dust cover which does have a built in spring pad for the front. Not sure that would even equate to 1/8" at full compression since it is essentially just a thin rubber isolator.

I have wondered many times... Is there a reason why you don't just pick up custom spec springs for your initial needs? Or you could try the Ford Performance pack with spacers. I think that can be had for very little $$ just to try.

 

[M-Sport fan]

I was going to do the whiteline/b6 as well, but I really don't want to any longer now that I know that it is going to be plenty lower than I want. I honestly should have done the whiteline/b6 first knowing that I probably had nowhere to go but up moving to the swifts. We'll see. I still have FiST #2 that I could do the whitelines on.



I read this so many times that this is what I suspected it would be, but it simply isn't in my case and swifts are within what is advertised for drop. I did not use rear urethane spring pads. Just new stock pads, which would equate to probably about an 1/8 difference in drop over urethane. I also didn't reuse the stock dust cover which does have a built in spring pad for the front. Not sure that would even equate to 1/8" at full compression since it is essentially just a thin rubber isolator.

I have wondered many times... Is there a reason why you don't just pick up custom spec springs for your initial needs? Or you could try the Ford Performance pack with spacers. I think that can be had for very little $$ just to try.

Because all of the spring companies require 400 spring 'runs' for any custom spec spring which is not already sitting on their shelves, just like Enkei and all of the other wheel manufacturers do for non-stocking PCD drillings/offsets, if they even offer that option at all.

A factory ride height, but 20%-25% greater LINEAR spring rate spring would be ideal for me, but NO ONE is EVER going to offer that for these cars, since the majority of owners want to slam them right into the ground.