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Old 10-01-2010, 04:36 PM   #9
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I dabble at a shop where we install both, GC and H&R even get some of their components from the same source.

The H&R quality is much nicer than the GC stuff on the aluminum machined parts IMHO.
I do like the threads machined right into the struts... that is nice.
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They make the only spacers I would ever use.
Agreed.
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GC is Asian H&R is German, the H&R engineering staff are almost all ex Bilstein employees.

GC is generally Koni and Eibach, combined with the GC specific parts they use to make the kits... camber plates, threaded collars, rear shock mounts etc...

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H&R is more pick and choose the parts you like, GC makes packages. You can buy their springs separately though.
Did you mean GC is more pick and choose? I have never seen an H&R kit with options. Which is my point... I would consider H&R out of the box coilovers on an out of the box car... but a swapped ti is not and out of the box car.
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