I purchased a new set of direct fitment KYB GR-2s (now called Excel-G) for my 90 Colt DL. It is swapped with the 4g63 and it looks to have originally had 1g AWD stock shocks and cut springs up front. I purchased my shocks and associated hardware from shockwarehouse.com and here are the specific shocks I purchased for the front:
http://www.shockwarehouse.com/site/prod ... Mitsubishi
So last weekend I pull out the old shocks and disassemble to get the spring off. It is then that I notice the diameter of the lower coil spring seat on the old and new strut are different diameters. The KYB GR-2s that I ordered have a smaller spring seat diameter and look to need a smaller diameter coil spring. Did the C50 cars use a smaller diameter coil spring than the 1g DSMs? I didn't see that in some of the searching I did, or perhaps I overlooked it scanning through all the convolutions of possible suspension setups.
I wanted to get confirmation on this before procuring a set of stock C50 springs. Any difference in spring rates between the N/A and turbo cars?
While I'm bringing this up, are the 1g AWD and FWD DSM springs the same diameter? I've only ever owned 1g AWDs so I have no reference in regards to the 1g FWDs.
Thanks for the help in advance!