Originally posted by inspyral
Your stock upper mounts are not pillow mounts. Pillow, or pillowball mounts are usually aluminum upper mounts in which the upper bushing is replaced with a spherical bearing. It translates into less suspension deflection and a generally tighter feel over the stock rubber bushings. You can run the TEIN setup with your stock upper mounts, and it should be fine. You just remove them from your stock dampers and reinstall them on the TEIN units. The TEIN set may or may not come with new urethane or hard rubber bushings for the upper mounts. If not, you can re-use your stock ones, although they may be a bit soft. There's no need to buy new stock upper mounts. Just compress the stock springs and re-use the stock upper mounts.
thanks chris... :thumbup: u the man. now i'll just pick up those suspension then. oh btw... i couldn't afford tiens.. so the one i am picking up is the tanabe sustec pro ss. hehe :naughty: