ian kam

I have this setup on the car now...but the setup is very very stiff...not recomended for street. Now anyone who uses this for street what valve setup do you have and the springs your using. The roads here can be rough too rough for the setup I have now. I'm currently waiting to see what I have on the car.

macnewma

Do you have the Bilstein Escort Cup suspension? If so, you can send them to Bilstein to be revalved to Firehawk specs which is more of a street/track compromise. You might even be able to valve them for a lighter spring than the Firehawks. Just call Bilstein motorsports.

ftanguay

I use to run with Bilstein Firehawks setup... relly nice for street. It compare with a Audi TT 3.2 and really good on track too.

Sam Lin

Don't bother revalving to Firehawk, just buy the Firehawk struts and sell yours. You'll spend less money that way.

Sam

macnewma

Sam is right, I wasn't thinking. Buy the firehawk struts from someone like Paragon. If you want to keep coilovers in the rear you will need to revalve those to Firehawk specs because they are not threaded for coilovers. If you don't care about having coilovers in the rear, just get the Firehawk rear shocks.

ftanguay

Personnally I'll just make them revalve... at more than 800$ for the front (new)... revalve price was not too bad. And like macnewma said you have to keep the rear Escort if you want rear coilover.

check for price and option, i'm not shure you have to revalve the rear (if you want to get rid of the torsions). I recall some tread talk about revalve the front to firehawks and keep the rear escort.