Well, last night at 3:15am, we finally finished installing the OEM Sport suspension in my non-sport A4. All that it took was 4 Audi fans, 7 hours, 6 beers, 2 pizzas, 2 pints of blood, 2 broken craftsman tools, one stripped strut and one $500 set of the A4 factory repair manuals.<p>Eric Fluhr, and his Dad (Bill) and little brother (Ken), all helped me, or should I say I helped them; they did most of the work. We did the project over at his Dad's new house with the 3 bay garage, the 3rd bay being devoted solely to Audi work. This was a really hard install, and they only way we could have done this was with the help of the A4 Factory Repair Manual that Eric and his brother bought for their dad, who owns an A4. I could not have gotten past getting the wheels off since that suspension is so complicated on the A4, and Eric took over at that point. Between all of his family, I owe them about 20 hours of labor on the install.<p>Now, as for the results....wow! Now my car feels 100% better, the OEM sport springs and struts are just perfect for me, not too hard, not too soft. I could tell right away that this was worth the effort and money, the car felt so much better (and looks better now that it is lower). So, my advice to you all, if you are getting an A4, save yourself the hassle and order the sport option. Or find yourselves some friends like the Fluhrs.<p>Christian J. Long (& Breeze Parker-Long)<br>Orlando, Florida, USA<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>'98 Audi A4 1.8tm, Neuspeed .8 bar, K&N, 17" Ronal R28<br>'96 BMW 318ti, For sale!<br>'90 Audi 90 <br>Past Audis: '84 CGT, '85CGT, '87.5 CGT, '90 CQ<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I found the suspension change out took a lot of time for the first component of the front or rear, but the second one took less than an hour. It would have been much faster if my brother and I had had better spring compressors. We only had a back issue of "European Car" as a help guide. I found the modular nature of the shock spring components and mounting points to be quite easy to and helpful when reinstalling. It was time consuming I will say, but the performance improvement was well worth it.