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Originally Posted by onzedge Also, don't forget the Koni's. Swift without Koni is like a day without sunshine. It's like toast without butter, eggs without bacon, a dog without its

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Also, don't forget the Koni's. Swift without Koni is like a day without sunshine. It's like toast without butter, eggs without bacon, a dog without its bark.

It's like going to the prom with your sister (or brother), like going on a blind date and it's your second ex-wife (or husband), like having the house to yourself for the weekend and all of your friends are busy, like showing up to work on a Sunday by mistake, it's like getting socks for Christmas.

Please, please, please do not get me started on tire selection.

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Damn dude! You've got a Buncha free swag from promoting all these goodies dont you? Big screen tvs and the like perhaps?
I wish that were the case. Alas, I am a simple guy who knows quality and am obsessively driven to share knowledge with others so that they may benefit from my experiences.

People often ask me "what's it like being you?". I can only answer that it's the hardest job I have ever had.
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Also, don't forget the Koni's. Swift without Koni is like a day without sunshine. It's like toast without butter, eggs without bacon, a dog without its bark.

It's like going to the prom with your sister (or brother), like going on a blind date and it's your second ex-wife (or husband), like having the house to yourself for the weekend and all of your friends are busy, like showing up to work on a Sunday by mistake, it's like getting socks for Christmas.

Please, please, please do not get me started on tire selection.

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To summerize Mr.onzedge's post: It's like Mr. without Dr.Mrs.
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To summerize Mr.onzedge's post: It's like Mr. without Dr.Mrs.
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Springs + sway bars. I really want better handling.
The best advice I can give you is to purchase the Swift Spec R springs($300) and the Stillen sways, I believe they go for $300 as well. For only $600 bucks it will dramatically change the way your car handles. Plus the springs will lower it which will give it looks Keep in mind though that after lowering you will need to align it a couple hundered miles after driving it. A good alignment can be had for 100 bucks or so. Also after lowering you may consider wheel spacers to push the wheels out further seeing as how lowering will "tuck" them more. Spacers are fairly affordable as well. Doing all that will keep you well under $1100. You may even have enough left over to pick up a used Stillen Gen 3 intake
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The best advice I can give you is to purchase the Swift Spec R springs($300) and the Stillen sways, I believe they go for $300 as well. For only $600 bucks it will dramatically change the way your car handles. Plus the springs will lower it which will give it looks Keep in mind though that after lowering you will need to align it a couple hundered miles after driving it. A good alignment can be had for 100 bucks or so. Also after lowering you may consider wheel spacers to push the wheels out further seeing as how lowering will "tuck" them more. Spacers are fairly affordable as well. Doing all that will keep you well under $1100. You may even have enough left over to pick up a used Stillen Gen 3 intake
all good advice.

Also, If you want a bit stiffer sways you can go with Eibach, hotchkis or even whiteline for not much more.
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The best advice I can give you is to purchase the Swift Spec R springs($300) and the Stillen sways, I believe they go for $300 as well. For only $600 bucks it will dramatically change the way your car handles. Plus the springs will lower it which will give it looks Keep in mind though that after lowering you will need to align it a couple hundered miles after driving it. A good alignment can be had for 100 bucks or so. Also after lowering you may consider wheel spacers to push the wheels out further seeing as how lowering will "tuck" them more. Spacers are fairly affordable as well. Doing all that will keep you well under $1100. You may even have enough left over to pick up a used Stillen Gen 3 intake
You're not making this decision easy.
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all good advice.

Also, If you want a bit stiffer sways you can go with Eibach, hotchkis or even whiteline for not much more.
I believe Whiteline and Hotchkis are at least 1-200 more for the set, no? I wanted the Whitelines but remember not liking the price.
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You're not making this decision easy.
Thanks for all the help Ryan!
Thought I WAS making it easy

No problem Tracie, always feel free to ask questions You are a nice addition to the great group of people in this thread
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I believe Whiteline and Hotchkis are at least 1-200 more for the set, no? I wanted the Whitelines but remember not liking the price.
The Whiteline rear sways are $220 on Kamispeed
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While nice, not always necessary. Although I do plan on gettin some rear camber arms to sooner or later to improve tire wear. VERY upset I only got about 11k out of my last set of rubber
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