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Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:37 am
by Mat04
Hi everyone I'm thinking about purchasing a gen 4 outback and was wondering if my coil overs in the wife's gen 4 liberty would fit and work on a outback of similar year?

Re: Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 12:50 pm
by sheppo9
Yes.

Need to "de-lift" if your going to dump it or the CV's will be at silly angles.
Or lower it a couple of inches only and not worry about it.

Re: Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 5:50 pm
by Mat04
What I de-lift?

Re: Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 7:37 pm
by bigBADbenny
I'm no expert but you'd need some different suspension components like camber bushes, links, ALK, RCA and maybe control arms to correct the lowered geometry, if going low... It could be a very cool look with the wide body-esque wheel arches over e.g. stretched tyres on wide rims.... 8)

Re: Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 9:51 pm
by Mat04
That would be the look I'm heading towards I seen a picture today of a black 05 outback over in the states with white wheels, looks the part.

It seams like there is a lot more involved in getting an outback to lay sills or be close to it compared to a liberty. Maybe just dump the liberty and get an outback as family car.

Re: Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:17 pm
by bigBADbenny
I drove a Foz the other day - lifted cars are so much fun, feel so bombproof!
But I like that lowered widebody look too...
I'm sure someone has attempted it here.

Re: Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:39 pm
by Anson
Was fairly easy...
Anylower on the back and it's on the bumpstops...

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Re: Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:45 pm
by rooby
What a shit street in that last photo.

Re: Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:38 pm
by bigBADbenny
@ Anson: How did you do that?

Re: Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:30 am
by Anson

Re: Coils in an outback

PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:50 am
by rooby

Have you just done coilovers or also other supporting mods.

Mark has a list of supporting mods for a low outback here if you haven't seen viewtopic.php?f=10&t=14609&start=195#p236539