Styling Stilo 1.4 lowering advice

[Crazy Horses]

Hi all.
I've done some searching but it's all very generic, so I'm posting this as by my reckoning each suspension pack is going to be specific to each model, engine weight and all.
So I've just bought a yellow stilo nothing special but decent enough. I think it's sitting a little too high so how can I best ( cost effectively ) lower the car by say, 50mm all round. I really don't want to be using coilovers and I like my arches untouched, so some good advice would be really appreciated.
Regards.

 

[Studentas]

50mm lowering without coilovers, seems impossible. Eibach springs lowers front 40mm, usually 35mm at back. I think its the best option without coilovers.

 

[reecurner3]

I lowered my 1.6 with amax.. Or apex, think they're the same company? But anyways I'm 99% sure the lowest springs you can get is 40mm, then it would be coilovers, but word of advice, the springs that I used didn't lower the front, it seemed that they 'leveled' the car out, as in, the stilo sits a little nose down standard, so when using those springs it lowered the back but not much at all on the front end, but at the fast show a few years back a lad was there who had lowered using eibach springs, which did lower the front, just letting you know from my past experience

 

[Crazy Horses]

Thanks for the replies, yes I'd read about a few owners having problems with the front end not dropping. Is this specific to certain brands ?

 

[reecurner3]

No worries, as far as I know the amax/ apex ones don't drop the front, and the eibach ones do, but this is only going by my experience with the amax/apex ones being on my car and seeing the eibach ones on another members stilo, if it were me, I'd play it safe and spend the extra money on the eibach ones

 

[MarkThompson4]

Get an eibach kit - springs and dampers. It's good practice to upgrade the damper when fitting lowering/ uprated springs. Most eibach kits come with Bilstein dampers, you can't go wrong with these two companies

 

[Crazy Horses]

It seems that Eibach are getting a good write up from Stilo owners on here, so I'll be making some enquires into the Eibach kit.
Thanks again.