JadeGS

'98 GS400 with 108,000 miles, original owner, regular service, stock except for EVO Mille Miglia 18" rims with Sumitomo summer tires, Michelen all seasons on the stock rims for winter. Replaced the starter at about 95k and shocks. Lower mileage is due to this car becoming my winter/bad weather driver with a S2000 for top-down fun, pretty short commute too. Now my daughter is driving the car to high school and work.

Have noticed that the gas mileage around town is low, around 14. Looks like I need to replace the plugs, also timing belt, my bad for not keeping on top of that. :o

Any other ideas on the gas mileage issue?

I bought all the stuff on EBAY. Eibach Springs were like 240 and the bilsteins were 475. It took awhile to decide what to do with my money. I looked into body kits, two tone leather, everything in the book. I finally decided to go with anything suspension because this is what I believe the GS lacks most. I am very happy and do not regret one penny spent on this upgrade. I did the work myself though I still need to get an alignment as when you do this the geometry of the suspension changes, thus throwing off your alignment. However I've been driving it and it's not like it's eating my tires or anything but still it is a necessity.

I installed Eibach Springs with Bilstein Shocks. By the way, I recently read in Road & Track that the new Lotus Eagle will have Eibach Springs and Bilstein Shocks setup. :o The ride is Lexus-like with a little more harshness on bumps. The attitude is greatly improved and I was considering sway bars, but this set up is so good that I would really think twice before spending the big bucks on sways. The install was very easy. You don't even have to take apart ball joints for the front. Rear is easy too. My OEM setup had only 30k on it.

hey man...how much did you spend cause i wanted to originally buy a new bodykit for my car but i was thinking about just dropping the car with a new suspension instead

Can you point me to any 'how to' posts for shock/strut replacement?