Well, so I tried to get my car corner balanced, and it turned out that they couldn't do it.

Because the prevous owner had really short H&R slamming bling springs installed, they are yellow in color and doesn't allow the coilovers to go above half way, which means I only have less than 2cm of clearance during normal driving.

Does anyone know what color the OEM springs for the GT2 is? Just on the off chance that these springs, yellow in color with H&R stamps, are OEM. I am about ready to order a set of stock springs.

The balance as it stands is not too horrible, but I would like to make it better.

 

The stock springs are yellow and say H&R on them.

 

Hmm, the only thing is, when I called Sunset, the part numbers that they gave me were significantly longer than the part number stamped on the yellow H&R springs. I will look for it and post them...

 

Pictures of my car...





You can see the edge of the H&R logo

 

I will post the part numbers for 2003 and/or 2004 tonight, as I have them at home. However as you can see from Josh's photos the springs are progressive.

I think GMG, Fabryce, would have a used pair of OEM GT2 springs in stock, as they have replaced a number of cars with Moton's and revised springs.

JCM

 

Looks like a stock spring to me-

You should have no problem corner balancing the car with the stock springs..

I dont know what the shop is telling you- but they should be able to do it.

The stock GT2 springs is yellow and supplied by H&R
It will have a porsche part on it 996.xxx.xxx.xx

 

The rear ones seem to be stock springs: 996.333.531.94 or 996.333.531.98 (04+ GT2)

The front ones you need to rotate with your hands to spot the part number: it should be 996.343.531.93 or 996.343.531.98 (04+ GT2)

 

I know mine are stock, the question is if stuka's are. Hopefully, he can post pictures/part#s of his car.

 

those are stock springs if they are yellow and have H&R stamped. H&R aftermarket springs are generally red in color. No H&R aftermarket springs for GT2 come in yellow.

 

Well, apparently they are stock, judging form the pictures and the documentations that the shop gave me.

It just seemd odd that the part number that Sunset gave me wihch is, 99634353198504.

The shop documenation has 996343193.

I guess I should set aside some $$ and replace my lip spoiler every 6 month.

I also talked to the shop, and they told me that it can be adjusted, but the car will sit lower than it currently does, which is pretty damn low.

This all started when I took off the wheel after buying the car and found that the previous owner had the coilover turned to bump stop, so it bottoms out everywhere, not scraping, but bottoming out.

So I readjusted it to where it won't go any higher, and I guess that is the way it is...

Thank you all for the detective work, I really appreciate it.

 

turned to bump stop? Fact GT2 settings are generally pretty low. spoilers are consummables buy them by the six-pack esp if you drive it as a daily.

 

Yes, the coilover was locked at the lowest, so yo ucan barely get your finger in between the tire and the wheel well.

I am calling Sunset to stock up on 6 packs of spoilers, as you said.

 

the lowest concern to have with a lowered GT2 is the spoiler lip. The biggest one is the bump steer coming from the rear axle, that can be lethal at a racetrack.

 

Just to clarify, see picture #3, the previous owner had the collar turned all the way to the top so the car has that bling bling ground hugging look that bottoms out on uneven LA freeways for no techincal reason.

I turned it down to around where picture #3 collar is. There still appear to be a lot of travel on the coilover that can be made if it wasn't for the length of the spring.

 

NJ-GT - The biggest one is the bump steer coming from the rear axle, that can be lethal at a racetrack.

I can attest to this. The GT2 can be evil at the track! Took a guy for a ride last time at the track and when he got out one of the guys asked him how the ride was, he said said it scared the $#!^ out of him, said I was crazy. I told him no, that is just rear biased bump steer I haven't dialed out yet. If you can't feel it you can't fix it!

JCM