A Cheap & Easy Way To Lower Your Mustang!

Published by Heather on September 7, 2010 in Mustang Q&A.  ( 4 Comments )

stangin2005 wants to know: “I’m looking for the best lowering springs I can get for my 2005 Mustang GT without having to buy all sorts of camber and caster adjusters. I want the best ride quality possible!! What springs do you recommend and can I go an inch and a half?”

AM_2011_Mustang.jpg Great question, stangin! Lowering your Mustang has a number of benefits, the most noticeable being appearance and performance. By lowering the vehicle, you lower the center of gravity, which greatly improves handling and reduces body roll & nose-dive. Unsightly wheel gap is also eliminated, giving your Stang a sleek, intimidating look (especially over a set of 17”, 18” or 19” wheels).

Lowering kits that are designed solely for performance gains often make big sacrifices when it comes to ride quality, and lowering the car more than 1.5” will require caster/camber plates and a ball joint kit to properly realign the suspension. Considering you want to maintain decent ride quality, I’d recommend the Eibach Pro-Kit; match it with the Eibach Pro-Damper kit or a set of Tokico shocks & struts and you’ve got a great performance suspension without sacrificing ride quality, or rattling your teeth out of your skull!

springs.jpg The Eibach kit lowers the front 1.3” and the rear 1.4” (approximately), so a simple alignment after installation should be all you need to get your pony rolling again. This is the same set of lowering springs that we installed in our 2011 Mustang project car, and we’ve taken that car both to the track and the grocery store. Best of luck with your suspension and keep the questions coming!

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Heather is a Customer Service Team Lead and blogger at AM, but outside she is a jack-of-all trades. A Ford enthusiast since birth, she credits her love of all things mechanical to her father, a mechanical engineer who really just needed free labor for his weekend car projects. Surprisingly, Heather began her post-secondary education as a Music major, but alas – she was not destined to be eternally dubbed “Band Geek”. Instead she attended Automotive Training Center in Exton, PA where she found her true passion, and worked as a mechanic until her grease monkey career was cut short by a shoulder injury sustained in motorcycle accident. Outside AM, Heather still works on her own 1985 Ranger (Pepe, Le P.O.S.) and Lola, her 2004 V6 Mustang; and although neither of her current vehicles are race-worthy, she is no stranger to the quarter mile. “Girly” is probably the last word you would use to describe Heather, yet she moonlights as a model to fund her addiction to car parts. While she has many talents and interests, she has truly found her dream job at AM.

  • Eric

    Wait…i thought you said CHEAP way???

    • http://twitter.com/solidhex solidhex

      Well, you don’t want to get TOO cheap when it comes to your suspension and tires ;)

  • http://www.americanmuscle.com AMChrisRose

    Most lowering springs can be had for about $249.99. If you install them yourself, and align the car, you can have it done for about $300-325 total. Even with shocks and struts, you can do the entire suspension, installed for $500-700 depending on labor, etc. That’s with top-of-the-line products, at normal pricing.

    We have some weekly sales (check out the rotating banner on AM homepage) where right now, for example, you can pick up a set of H&R springs for your 04-down Mustang for less than $200!

  • steve

    I have had the pro kit springs on my 2006 mustang for 4 years, also have had the tokico d-specs on for about 3 years. I haven’t had any issues with alignment and no need for cc plates