I want to buy and H&R spring to my 996.I want to know after I installed the H&R spring do i need an alignment and camber kit?

wheels
19x8.5
19x11

 

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What model 996 do you have ? The H&R springs are all different to your corresponding model. You will need an alignment as far as a camber kit I wouldn't think it would be necessary.

 

Thanks for the advice.

2001
911
3.4 engine

 

 

How much the spring Part #29513

 

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Yes you definitely need an alignment but not a camber kit unless you're going to be tracking it and want to get into some serious front camber. You can only get to about a half degree of negative camber in the front with the stock parts.

Are you looking for just an appearance change by lowering the car, or are the springs more to give the car better performance?

If it's just for appearance, the stock struts will work just fine with the lowered springs (for a while). A lot of people will say you have to upgrade them, but you don't. They will wear out faster due to operating outside of their designed range, and the car will bottom out on the bump stops more often than now because the struts won't have the firmer valving setup to help prevent this. How long they last depends a lot on how many miles are on the car now, how it was driven in the past in terms of rough or smooth roads, and how it will be driven in the future in terms of those roads. The more the struts have to work, the quicker they'll wear out. The more highway driving you do on smooth roads, the longer they'll last. If your car has more than 50k miles and has seen a lot of city driving and/or rough roads, then I'd highly suggest doing the struts at the same time or you'll have to pay for the same labor all over again when they fail. If the car is lower mileage and haven't been abused, then I'd leave them and you can expect to get tens of thousands of miles out of them before you'll want to replace them.

If it's mainly a change for performance, then you definitely want to upgrade the struts at the same time. There's really just one option you'd want to go with: Bilstein HD. The HD are designed for shorter springs and have stiffer compression and rebound so you'll get a nice performance improvement. Bilstein also makes a Sport strut but those are designed for stock springs and basically just enhance the performance a bit if you don't want to change the ride height.

For the camber, just stick with factory specs if you're not looking to change the performance. If you want to improve the performance of the car somewhat, then go with 1/32" toe-in on each side in the front and 1/16" toe-out on each side in the rear, with as much negative camber as you can get in the front and about 1.5 degrees negative in the rear. If you REALLY want to change the performance more for the track or make it a lot more aggressive on the street, then go with 1/16" toe-in on both sides in the front (again with as much negative camber as you can get) and 2.0 degrees negative camber in the rear (again with 1/16" toe-out on both sides in the rear).

A set of sways would be a good idea too at the same time. The last I saw you could get a set of Eibach front and rear sways for only $80 on amazon.com. It's a steal of a deal! You'll want to set these on the middle hole in the rear and the softest (furthest forward) hole in the front, and then you can adjust the rear from there to add or subtract oversteer (by changing the bar to softer or harder respectively).

 

@porsche02 I sent you a message about the price, you can also click on the link above to see the price on the website. Let me know if you have any questions.

 

I thought the price still they same when you message me before.

 

At that time we had an H&R sale running that allowed us to sell them a little cheaper than before. I can guarantee that we offer one of best price around on H&R springs and components and ECS is way below the factory retail.

 

thanks

 

Not a problem, just let me know if I can help you with anything else. Do you have any pictures of your 2001 ? Are you planning on doing any other modifications ?