{"id":5023,"date":"2015-09-16T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2015-09-16T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:41:52","slug":"ecs-stanceenhance-kit-vwr-springs-spacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/16\/ecs-stanceenhance-kit-vwr-springs-spacers\/","title":{"rendered":"My Car: Mod #16 \u2013 ECS StanceEnhance Kit (VWR Springs + Spacers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">Mod #16 &#8211;\u00a0<a style=\"color: #073f8e; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ecstuning.com\/ES2951394\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" norewrite\">ECS StanceEnhance Kit (VWR Springs + Spacers) ES#: 2951394<\/a>. These were $549 at the time of ordering (8\/6). Now they are listed for $617 USD on 8\/27. It&#8217;s quite an increase and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d pay that much but I&#8217;ll leave that up to you.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><strong style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\">Install<\/strong>\u00a0of this was at a VW shop with 3 employees and the owner who has been working on VAG cars for 30 years (Porsche, VW, Audi) said it took him\u00a0<strong style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\">3.5 hours<\/strong>\u00a0to install Springs + Spacers and give it a test drive. I paid $280 for the install and an additional $89 for an alignment. Wish I was there for the install but I had work. It would have been good to photograph it. Thanks Redline Motorsport in Hartland, VT for doing such a great job!<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">The DAP video on install is well made though if you want to see the process:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WhYAAUWm-6Y?wmode=opaque\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><strong style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\">Initial thoughts:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">The car sat for a full 24 hours before I drove it off so plenty of time to settle. I drove it 50 miles tonight. At first, I was a bit uncomfortable. It drives like a completely different car. My Golf has 1100 miles on it and it felt like I was in a new vehicle completely for the first while. Then, I realized that I can push this thing a bit and I did<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">WHOA<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">I don&#8217;t think Spacers are doing much here but the VWR Springs put in some work! The car is way more easy to manage when I floor it from dead stop. it takes the power so much easier without any gripes. In corners, I did a full 180 degree off-ramp at 50 MPH. I usually take on the ramp at 40 and my body is being pulled into the door frame. Nope. 50MPH, almost no body roll of the vehicle and the g-force feels cut in half. My GF who knew there were springs but doesn&#8217;t know anything about cars said &#8220;you can go faster. You usually go around this turn really fast&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">She had no idea i was going 10 MPH faster than normal. She didn&#8217;t grab hold of the coat-hanger handle like she usually does. WIN!!!!<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">The car&#8217;s center of gravity is lower, body roll is reduced and the power is basically absorbed nice and easy. I LOVE this mod. Easily the biggest change short of Stage 1 Tune<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><strong style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\">Before Photos of Stance &amp; Wheel Gap (taken last week)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; This is OEM:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><a title=\"View 'Golf R, Window Tinting &amp; Pre-VW R Springs' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20684594546\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Golf R, Window Tinting &amp; Pre-VW R Springs\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5795\/20684594546_328e205ab2_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Golf R, Window Tinting &amp; Pre-VW R Springs\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><a title=\"View 'Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20684600856\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/635\/20684600856_14c5b000be_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><a title=\"View 'Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20710843545\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/774\/20710843545_a5ce86bb72_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><a title=\"View 'Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20089903523\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5684\/20089903523_b648da2fba_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><a title=\"View 'Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20522844788\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/764\/20522844788_b64b59cc06_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Volkswagen Golf R 2016 Stance (Before Spacers)\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><strong style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;\">After Photos of ECS Tuning Stance Enhance Kit, VWR Sport Springs + 17.5mm &amp; 10.5mm Spacers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20928683882\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5653\/20928683882_6c0733566b_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20938439675\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/690\/20938439675_567b7191dc_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20315824214\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/577\/20315824214_3ef83b3ac1_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20928675012\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5820\/20928675012_1ffdb1eaf1_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20938431145\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5808\/20938431145_7283969e5d_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20750368670\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5744\/20750368670_5bb6ff3b91_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20751670969\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5659\/20751670969_8b6c03909b_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20751667669\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5686\/20751667669_6983374518_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20938421165\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5740\/20938421165_43b7236968_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20315805974\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5681\/20315805974_98eff01736_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ECS Tuning MK7 Golf R - Stance Enhance Kit - VWR Springs and Spacers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mod #16 &#8211;\u00a0ECS StanceEnhance Kit (VWR Springs + Spacers) ES#: 2951394. These were $549 at the time of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:16:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"a77b9b38-0cad-446d-aa3e-36ab93673f3b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:16:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ap3ubOAytRG2qPjark2c_Ow","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-my-car","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1j1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5435,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/updated-volkswagen-golf-r-2016-mk7-planned-modifications-overview\/","url_meta":{"origin":5023,"position":0},"title":"Updated: Volkswagen Golf R 2016 (MK7) Planned Modifications Overview","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I posted in August a list of modifications\u00a0and information about my car. Some of those modifications were cancelled and others morphed into something completely different. I\u2019ll make sure to do another update to this post in August as I finalize the car\u2019s build. 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Low-budget for wheels and tires has lead me down a few paths. 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They're aluminum and sort of coated in a thick and powder coat finish which I hope will reduce rust but it also looks nice in the engine bay and doesn't stand out. 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