anyone using Ground Control Coilovers? need help

[hollar1211]

i ordered some ground control coilovers a while ago and tried to have them installed a couple weeks ago. needless to say the gc sleeves don't fit over the msp's stock tokico struts. i called ground control and they said they don't carry coilovers specific to the msp and they don't know how people with msp's are fitting them on their cars. i know members on here have gc coilovers and need to know how you fit yours in or if you had a special kit of parts put together by gound control. any info or part numbers would help me out a lot.

they sent me #5046 for 99- protege's incl. mp3 and mp5, and they obviously don't fit. thanks for the help.

front springs are 180.64.61
rear springs are 200.64.44

[hollar1211]

so no one's using ground control coilovers then?

[livelyjay]

Send a PM to low_psi, I think he might be using them.

[hollar1211]

thanks man, i pm'd "RUSH" and "Yellow Msp" because i saw they use them. I got some feed back, but no definite answers. I think i might just sell them rather than send them back and deal with the whole restocking fee and shipping.

[808MP5]

they fit. You have to take off the little metal covers on top of the strut. I'm running gc's and tokico blues

[low_psi]

You have to chisel the top cap off, place the sleeve around the strut and then hammer the cap back on.

I think I have a pic saved somewhere from years ago... found it.
http://www.msprotege.com/members/low_psi/GCHelp.jpg

[livelyjay]

I knew you would have the answer.

[808MP5]

Problem solved. Nice illustration

[hollar1211]

awesome, thanks everyone, this saves me shit loads of time and stress. i'll give it another try this weekend and post pics. sweeeeeeet!