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I thought there was a tut about the shock that people have been putting in the trunk, but i cant seem to find it anywhere. Is my search button broken? I have found a small shock at Autozone, but not sure if it is what i need and not really sure i know how to do it. A tut would be helpful. Thanks.
A few people have used the trunk shocks for the lancer. The shocks are made by redline tuning. I dont really reccomend using the shocks because they dont work as well as the stock torsion bars. Use them only if you have to remove the torsion bars because your speakers are hitting them
oh damn I might do this.. my torsion bar broke in half and sent metal shards flying...
Well if you dont have torsion bars at all, then yea, this would definately help keep your trunk up instead of using a piece of wood.
I think it was ChicagoGTZ had a prototype for trunk shocks form Redline Tuning back in the day and they couldnt come up with a design that would work.
that said, using the lancer shocks, the trunk is still heavy. I think the stock trunk is about 50lbs? From closed position to halfway up, the trunk still feels like its 20lbs. After its halfway open, the shocks do the rest of the work. Closing the trunk is the same thing but opposite. A lot of people drop my trunk lid shut because it suddenly gets heavy halfway down. :(
with a carbon fiber trunk though, I think it should be fine.
A cf trunk is the opposite. MrJaydeeones (Jason) trunk is too light to close with 1 hand. The trunk flexes a little and I feel like I could break it if trying to close it too many times only using 1 hand. I have to use 2 hands to close it and have to use like 10 pounds of force to do it.
Well, the speakers that are in my car have to have a wooden spacer to keep the speaker from hitting the torsion bars. I would like to be rid of them all together. So which shocks from redline were used? Or do they have the part listed for the 8g?
bumping an old thread. I tried flipping the trunk shocks upside down and the trunk is easier to open and close now. It doesnt slam shut anymore like i previosuly said. The trunk shocks are not half bad anymore. be advised when installing the trunk shocks, do not follow the Lancer instructions, the trunk will not close correctly if you do
how would you take those torsion bars out?
A torch.
look under there and check. mine came off pretty easy. I know i didnt need a torch. lol
They just pop out with some force, just stick your head under their you will see exactly where to pull at.
QNZ, can you take a pic of your trunk with them? Im thinking i could probably use them on my stratus. I want to see how these work.
to take off the torsion bar through CUTTING you can also use an angle grinder. i used it to cut off an inch or so from the end because my speakers were hitting it. sparks do fly but it takes like 2 seconds.
ummm be careful taking that torsion bar... i got one off and the trunk slammed down on my legs. yes it hurt lol. its easier to pull on it to bend the bar enough to take them out one side at a time.
another thing, i tried to ziptie the torsion bars a little closer together so my trunk didn't slam all the time.. yea one of the bars broke in half. had to weld them back together. figured id give ya a lil bit of info before you go hurt yourself lol
So, what shocks am i looking for? What year model of lancer? and do you have pics of how you mounted them?
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legs? were you sitting in the trunk?? hehe
yea, the trunk is about 50lbs without the torsion bars
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lol yea i was laying down putting new speakers in.
here are cell phone pics of how I installed my shocks. I flipped the shocks upside down and the trunk is easier to lift and close now.
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/a...n/IMG00075.jpg
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/a...n/IMG00074.jpg
Interesting. So are those rivets holding them on?? They don't look like bolts., i'm going to have to look these up. I want some for the Stratus.
I think im going to get the hood struts too.
Nice. If i was wanting to get some like yours, what would i look for (what model year and what car)?
these are for a 03 Lancer
QNZ, were they hard to modify to fit our trunks? If you have any other pix please post them so I can see where they needed to be mounted. Looks like you kinda have to mount one side of the kit and see where the opposite end falls, then rivet it down. Does this sound right to you?
You dont have to "modify" anything really. But is is exactly like you said. I mounted one end first and then see where the other end falls and then riveted that in. If you notice my first pic, that black gob is waterproof silicone from the hole i drilled for following the Lancer directions. Then I realized that it would not work for my trunk and then just freestyled it.
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Cool...Thanks for the tip man. I kinda figured doing that way might be better since no direction were written for us to do this mod. I even contacted Redline about this and they had no idea that some of us were using their Lance kit on our trunks. I met those guys at NOPI a few years back and they tried to figure out a way to do our trunks, but gave up and said it wouldn't work well. Glad you guys are "rigging" up a way to "GETTER DUN!!"
Getting ready to mount mine... Just wanted to comment so I can find this easier.