thanks guys for posting what has worked for you.
I have been analysing the drop I have and my stock ride height and a regular focus stock ride height and this is what I have found. These measurements are from the center of the wheel to the top of fender arch so it removes the wheel size as a variable.
stock focus
front 14 3/4"
rear 15"
svt stock
front 14"
rear 14 1/2"
fk kit
front 13"
rear 14"
So the stock svt is only 3/4" lower front and 1/2" lower rear from a stock regular focus.
The fk kit which is suppose to be a 35 mm drop front and a 40mm drop rear turns out to be about 45mm drop front and 25mm drop rear.
These numbers are based off a regular focus drop not an svt drop. Take off 19mm front and 12.5mm rear to get the svt drops.
I am very disapointed with the spring drop of this kit. The fronts are dropped more than advertised and rears drop less than advertised. It is very similar to the problem the intrax people were having when they sent out the wrong back springs. It gives the car an ass in the air look which I do not like.
Any ways I have decided to replace the springs with a set of apex springs. I will document the entire exchange with pics so that everone can see what the two springs are like. I will be re-using the fk shocks and struts as they seem to be very good and have a life time warranty. Once I remove the springs I will be going over to fk and checking with them to see if the springs were defective. For their sake I hope they are because if this is the crap they are trying to sell then they should at least change what they say their drops are going to be.
The other things I have discovered, that may help out other people is that the perch height for the stock svt struts seems to be about 1/4" lower than the perch height on my fk struts. I have no stock regular focus struts to compare them to but it could be why when you install the svt struts and springs you get a little more drop than if you replace your stock reg focus springs with just the svt springs.
Oh and the svt alignment is actually in degrees decimal not fractions of an inch. So you guys who are putting your front toe at 1/8" out, you are way off base. It should be more like 1/24" total toe out. Here are the specs just look at the st170 specs they are the same as the US svt.
First, caster & camber2 sets of numbers (decimal degrees then degrees & minutes), and each set of numbers consists of a nominal value then a tolerance. (format nominal/(tolerance range))
Front axle caster
All except wagon - +2.98/(4.08 to 1.88 ) 2 59'/(4 05' to 1 53')
Wagon (normal) - +2.86/(3.89 to 1.83) 2 52'/(3 53' to 1 50')
Wagon(business) - +2.33/(3.33to 1.33) 2 22'/(3 20' to 1 20')
Max diff left/right 1.00 or 1 00'
Front axle camber
All except wagon - -0.54/(0.77 to -1.85) -0 32'/(0 46' to -1 51')
Wagon (normal) - -0.61/(0.67 to -1.89) -0 37'/(0 40' to -1 53')
Wagon(business) - -0.63/(0.62 to -1.88 ) -0 38'/(0 38' to -1 53')
Max diff left/right 1.25 or 1 15'
Rear axle camber
All except wagon - -0.96/(0.38 to -2.30) -0 58'/(0 23' to -2 18')
Wagon (normal) - -0.91/(0.37 to -2.19) -0 55'/(0 22' to -2 11')
Wagon(business) - -0.50/(0.75 to -1.75) -0 30'/(0 45' to -1 45')
Max diff left/right 1.25 or 1 15'
Toe settings are laid out as (tolerance)/(Setting (if required)).
The tolerance values are those permitted when checking the suspension
In case it doesn't come out ± = +/-
Front geometry total toe (all variants except ST170 & RS)
Decimal degrees - (0.20 ± 0.25) / (0.20 ± 0.15)
Degrees & minutes - (0 12' ± 0 15') / (0 12' ± 0 09')
mm - (1.2mm ± 1.6mm) / (1.2mm ± 0.9mm)
Rear geometry total toe (all variants except ST170 & RS)
Decimal degrees - (0.63 ± 0.13) / (0.38 ± 0.15)
Degrees & minutes - (0 38' ± 0 08') / (0 23' ± 0 09')
mm - (3.9mm ± 0.8mm) / (2.4mm ± 0.9mm)
Front geometry total toe (ST170)
Decimal degrees - (-0.15 ± 0.25) / (-0.15 ± 0.15)
Degrees & minutes - (0 09' ± 0 15') / (0 09' ± 0 09')
mm - (-1.1mm ± 1.9mm) / (-1.1mm ± 1.1mm)
Rear geometry total toe (ST170)
Decimal degrees - (0.55 ± 0.05) / (0.30 ± 0.15)
Degrees & minutes - (0 33' ± 0 03') / (0 18' ± 0 09')
mm - (4.2mm ± 0.4mm) / (2.3mm ± 1.1mm)
