Nice job drkay. The ride quality of the Swifts are fantastic. Swift used my RWD sedan for testing a couple years back. I'm lucky as I'm about an hour or so away from them. To this day, I still love them.

 

You and I both....no updates or pics yet?

 

The second set of springs have been fabricated and are currently in transit. As soon as I receive them I will install them and publish pictures and the review!

 

How low do they drop the car from oem height? I have basic X coupe not sport

 

Looking forward to those pics & final review.I'm currently stock and looking to install these as well.

 

Patience young grass hopper, patience.

 

what's with this spam?
(still waiting on the revised springs. . shouldn't be much longer at all)

 

What was up with the first set btw?

 

You would think that a company would do some real engineering and testing instead of basing things on pictures and user comments from getting a free set.

 

I agree. I don't see how engineering a set from states away, mailing them, and having the first volunteer test them makes a quality set of springs. Also, if I was reading his mod list correctly, he has subwoofers in his trunk. This will ultimately skew the weight distribution of a stock car and will affect the resulting ride height. This just seems like a really half baked approach.

There are so many other variables here that affect the ride quality:

Are alignments being performed?

Are the springs being installed by a certified mechanic to ensure no errors were made during installation?

Is a sample size of 1 appropriate?

I could go on...

The only plausible assumption is this. Swift sent him the RWD springs, took his pictures and comments, and made adjustments to try and "fine tune" them for the AWD weight (which is skewed by some of his mods). The second set will be this tweaked pair and as long as they are somewhere in the ballpark (ie. no one is in danger, the ride is at least mediocre, and the lowering is at least close to even) they will just throw them into production to start making some sales. They will let the real sample size begin after production on the consumers dime.

This could result in great springs, or terrible springs, but the logic behind their development is at best questionable.

 

Any updates Drkay?

 

While I don't disagree with your comments, one must also consider that SWIFT is an established spring manufacturer. They have made and tested way more springs than we could imagine, so their processes and techniques are assumed to be mature. When making springs for a new application all you really need to adjust for is the spring rate and ride height.

That being said, I'm also surprised they didn't do an in-house or certified 3rd party test.

 

I agree. I don't think these springs will be terrible, I just think they could have fine tuned them to be a much better final product had they gone with a more controlled and official testing method.

But the more they spend on R&D, the less profit they make.

 

Patiently waiting....need to drop the G

 

Any updates? waiting for these.