Roush Rear Springs
10-29-2016, 09:39 PM
#1
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 16
Roush Rear Springs
Hi Guys,
I have a question for anyone here who has installed the Roush rear springs (part # 401295). The description states that the drop is only 1/2" but I have seen in some of the reviews that people have said the drop is actually about 1". Does anyone here have any first hand experience with the Roush rear springs? I am looking to level out the stance on my '06 GT by just dropping the rear down by an inch and I am hoping that the Roush rear springs will accomplish that. Thanks a lot for any info that you can give me!
Dave
I have a question for anyone here who has installed the Roush rear springs (part # 401295). The description states that the drop is only 1/2" but I have seen in some of the reviews that people have said the drop is actually about 1". Does anyone here have any first hand experience with the Roush rear springs? I am looking to level out the stance on my '06 GT by just dropping the rear down by an inch and I am hoping that the Roush rear springs will accomplish that. Thanks a lot for any info that you can give me!
Dave
11-26-2016, 01:15 PM
#2
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
Posts: 406
I was gonna buy those same springs a couple years ago .... about $130 as I recall ..... but I decided "What the hey"? .... 
I dropped the rear of our '08 GT a bit over an inch, with 235/55-17 OEM size tires all four fender lips at top at now 28-1/4" from floor. Before the mod the rear was at ~29-1/2" I also cut top nubby off the snubbers. I did it by cutting 1 full coil plus an inch (of wire) off the top end of the OEM springs.
I also had some spare rubber spring seat rubbers used on '89-97 Thunderbirds, shortened a couple to fit tighter wound GT springs and secured them to the spring tops with tie wraps.
Rides great and now it doesn't look like the rear has hijackers.
Then I checked side to side, saw / measured that static height, the LR tire was closer out to the fender than the right rear, the difference being 3/8" .... which meant I just needed to move the hole where the PHB mounts to the frame over by 3/16". A little work with a Dremel and I had a longer hole and a washer and a spot weld .... hole moved & rear is centered.
I dropped the rear of our '08 GT a bit over an inch, with 235/55-17 OEM size tires all four fender lips at top at now 28-1/4" from floor. Before the mod the rear was at ~29-1/2" I also cut top nubby off the snubbers. I did it by cutting 1 full coil plus an inch (of wire) off the top end of the OEM springs.
I also had some spare rubber spring seat rubbers used on '89-97 Thunderbirds, shortened a couple to fit tighter wound GT springs and secured them to the spring tops with tie wraps.
Rides great and now it doesn't look like the rear has hijackers.
Then I checked side to side, saw / measured that static height, the LR tire was closer out to the fender than the right rear, the difference being 3/8" .... which meant I just needed to move the hole where the PHB mounts to the frame over by 3/16". A little work with a Dremel and I had a longer hole and a washer and a spot weld .... hole moved & rear is centered.