White Slug :: 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage ES Plus (Garage entry)

[deleted user]

Welcome, I responded to your alignment question in your other post.

regards
mech

[inuvik]

Welcome aboard!

[debburyl]

Welcome !!! Glad to have you !!! Love your mirage Name!! Lol lol

[laceygirl]

Hello :-) Welcome.. :-)

[Littlestan]

Welcome, I responded to your alignment question in your other post.

regards
mech

Thanks mech! I appreciated all your help with the Acty earlier this year/late last year too.

Thanks all for the warm welcome. I'll be sure to update soon with the things I'll be doing with the Slug. ;D

[Littlestan]

Installing a UR rear torsion bar tonight... not expecting a very noticeable difference like the swaybar
would give, but should still lend a bit of stiffness. Will report back after I've driven it awhile.

[Littlestan]

Springs are in from Amazon! 175lb front 205lb back spring rate. I'll do a spring rate test on the stock
one's once they're out to see how low rate they really are... really interested to see how low the
rear one's are, what with all the swaying around.

[laceygirl]

Ooh can't wait to see these..

[Littlestan]

Springs installed! Bought them from Amazon here:

http://www.amazon.com/Mitsubishi-Mirage-Suspension-Lowering-Spring/dp/B00QLTTPNW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1441805600&sr=8-2&keywords=mitsubishi+mirage+spring

Initial impressions are very positive. No more wibble wobble in the rear coming around corners or
hitting bumps/holes in the road. Car feels much more solid and in contact with the road.

I did notice something odd; the rear springs were 'softer' than the stock one's. I could much more
easily compress the new one's by pressing on them with my body. The new front springs were
much stiffer, however. This leads me to believe that all the rear end slop was eliminated by the
new front springs.

As it's really easy to do the rears, I'll swap the stock one's back in tomorrow night and rip around
a bit to see what it does. If it ends up still feeling solid, I'll probably just keep them in there as I
don't really like the flat lowered stance and much prefer the rear of the car standing up a bit
higher than the front. Check out the review in the Amazon link to see what I mean. Otherwise,
I'll have to track down some coil spring spacers/risers to put on the rear coils to jack the ass end
up a bit.

Will report back with pics tomorrow!