brumby coilovers?

ausbrumby · Post by **ausbrumby** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:17 pm

Gday was wondering if there are any coilovers that can fit or relatively easily be made to fit for to a Subaru brumby, would also like a pair on the rear

stenno · Post by **stenno** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:36 pm

Gen 3 or 4 liberty or mx5 front or rear coil overs for the rear depending on height wanted. For the front any impreza / liberty coilovers if you go 5 stud conversion just change the top hats ( the only physical difference ). 4 stud fronts, I have no idea maybe a ground zero or similar DIY coil over kit on MY standard struts.
Check usmb for more details as it has been done more frequently over in the us.

Also the jap spring / shock rates are usually massively stiff for imprezas / libertys for most coil overs compared to what's needed for a light weight early model Subaru. Maybe try contacting just jap? (importers of hsd coil overs I think) to see if they could piece you together a "Custom" brumby kit or try to get a brand of coil overs that have australian support so if need be you can send them off to be rebuilt / revalved / re sprung eg teins, bilstein etc

ausbrumby · Post by **ausbrumby** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:33 am

Thanks for the help, I would like to get it very low haha

nncoolg · Post by **nncoolg** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:07 pm

Remember brumbys have a torsion bar on the back, not springs. Adding a sprung strut aswell would make it pretty stiff...

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:33 pm

nncoolg wrote:Remember brumbys have a torsion bar on the back, not springs. Adding a sprung strut aswell would make it pretty stiff...

I was curious about that when thinking about coilovers for the rear of my wagon; could you just remove the torsion bar completely? or take the torsion bit out of the tube and cut it in half?

There's probably some glaring obvious reason why you can't, but I don't know about it yet

ausbrumby · Post by **ausbrumby** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:10 pm

Yeah I was thinking of removing the torsion bars completely

stenno · Post by **stenno** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:44 pm

The easy way for the rear is to just loosen the pre load on the torsion bar to get your desired ride height with coil overs. Otherwise just clock the splines on the torsion bar to get your desired ride height then adjust the torsion bar to set your desired spring rate using your existing shocks.
Also check out the structure of where the shocks / coil overs mount, they may need reinforcing as they where not designed to carry the load / weight of the vehicle.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:06 pm

Yeah forget coilovers for the rear, just adjust the torsion bar as described above

B00sting · Post by **B00sting** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:53 am

You could try BC coilovers.
They may do some custom ones.

Post by **TOONGA** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 10:02 am

nncoolg wrote:Remember brumbys have a torsion bar on the back, not springs. Adding a sprung strut aswell would make it pretty stiff...

Extremely stiff as I found out with my MX5 rear coil overs which now live on my vortex.

If you remove the torsion bars how are you going to hold the trailing arms on the car?

go with Steptoes suggestion of adjusting the torsion bar (Gregorys) and use an aftermarket gas strut in the place of the factory one.

TOONGA