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I always thought that you would just drop your car off with them for R&D and pick it up a week later. Then go back after the prototype is manufactured, let them install it, and voila you've lowered your car for free.
You sending them things, them sending you things, sounds a lot more complicated and less cool. In fairness to them I haven't asked them how it works yet lol.
Havent found anyone local to them so the only options are to ship/ship back.
As soon as they're final production, I'll share! Get the word out to anyone you know in SoCal with this car to go be the tester so we can get these lol
Hi guys, I did the spring install today with Swift. Disclaimer: these are technically still in R&D. They'll need ~2 weeks to settle and if all is good, Leonard will call Japan and give them the executive order. Please don't blow up his phone before then.
The expected drop is 1" Front, 0.75" Rear, and the current height is just shy of those numbers. If you have any questions please leave your comments in the video below. Thanks!
^^ Looks good but why are the rims pinkish?! (lol)
The only thing that I am not a huge fan about dropping my vehicles is that the gap in the arch doesn't look symmetric anymore....It looks like the gap at the top of the tire is not even with the gap between the front and rear of the tire (if I am explaining well). The only car I did a lowering job was my 2019 RC 350 AWD because the gap in the front was 1 inch more than the rear and looked like I had a very heavy set person in my backseats
Hi guys, I did the spring install today with Swift. Disclaimer: these are technically still in R&D. They'll need ~2 weeks to settle and if all is good, Leonard will call Japan and give them the executive order. Please don't blow up his phone before then.
The expected drop is 1" Front, 0.75" Rear, and the current height is just shy of those numbers. If you have any questions please leave your comments in the video below. Thanks!
Thanks everyone. It was a lot of fun meeting some of the guys @ Apex and Swift. I didn't feel too much like a guinea pig since Swift knows what they're doing. Also as the tester I wouldn't have been left hanging with an inferior prototype if something wasn't right. Swift told me that they have to make for final production exactly what's on my car. I don't know the exact spring rates however these are supposedly Spec-R, which typically have higher spring rates that they use for more performance oriented cars. If you look at their website the RCF Spec-R is 9 kg/mm(F) 16kg/mm(R) and GSF Spec-R is 8 kg/mm(F) 14kg/mm(R). If it's close to that that means Swift will be almost 30-50% stiffer than RSR which is 6.5 kg/mm(F) 10g/mm(R)! The only confusing thing is that Swift also makes Spec-R for the RC350, which is 5.6 kg/mm(F) 11kg/mm(R). I also took a before and after photo of the drivers side front of the wheel. If you focus on the bottom of the black trim you can see it goes from 6 1/16" to 5 1/8", which is a drop of 0.9375," very close to the promised drop of 1" and it may not be fully settled yet.
06-04-22, 05:55 PM
