Hello! Looking for some driving impressions and possible photos of XF's and XFR's with Mina Gallery Springs installed. I'm looking to lower my XFR just slightly and they advertise as having less of a drop than H&R's.

Thanks in advance!

 

Me too!!! Although never realised that H&R do springs for the XFR!!

MUST be someone on here thats done it!!

 

Yeah, still hoping for a response. H&R does make springs but they drop much lower than the Mina's. From my research it seems like Spires have the least drop, followed by Mina's and then H&R's.

 

Spires are not actually springs........they remove the dampers to remove and reweld the spring platform.

u can basically havevany drop you want although they tend not to go below about 18mm

where in the UK are you as Viezu tuning near Stratford Upon Avon also offer springs for the XFR

 

Not the best pic...but gives you an idea. Springs and Spacers make a nice fit....no issues .

 

Just curious what you guys are doing, to get the rear camber back in spec, when you lower the car. My '09 XF Luxury, with the stock springs in place, has the rear camber right on the edge of being in spec. Another .5-.75" drop, and the camber will be too far negative...... FWIW, the previous car, a Lincoln LS, had the same issue.

 

The XF rear doesn't have any camber adjustment, and AFAIK there is nothing you can do to fix this other than maybe installing an after-market camber adjustment kit, and I'm not sure such a thing even exists for the XF.
I fitted Eibach lowered springs to my old XFS, and the resultant increase in negative camber caused the inner edges of my rear tyres to wear very quickly.
The Eibachs dropped it 1.2" at the front and 1" at the rear and really improved the stance and handling, and the ride was only a tiny bit harder.
I have considered getting a set for my XFR, but I'm a little worried that it might stuff up the active suspension (error codes etc), and I don't really want excessive wear on the inner edges again, so I've decided against it.

 

You car looks great! Any chance I could request a side shot? What size spacers did you go with?

Thanks again!

 

Car looks very sharp,awesome stance! What size spacers?

 

How did you desilence your intakes? Must sound gnarly, too bad our superchargers are quiet too lol

 

The charger whine is now much louder!!! Three things........

1. Remove the intake snorkel chambers and blank them off.
2. Get some k&n panel filters
3. Cut most of the bottom of the air boxes off

Result is some serious charger noise, and on a few rolling road session with my Quick silver exhaust and straight through center pipe more hp!!!