You wouldn’t be very happy with those, those are for a lighter car. RockAuto will ship to Canada if you don’t mind waiting, or see if there’s any dimension charts online and or a cross reference chart.

 

OK! Thanks for the advice........much appreciated. I am going to make a phone call tomorrow to Bilstein.

 

I used to have a contact number , but he has long ago retired.

 

Did you get any where with the shorter shocks?

 

Most directions that come with lowering kits say to use tie-wraps.

 

So after driving the truck for a week I'm pretty sure I am going to go full coilover. It rides like **** with the ZZP springs, looks great but I want a bit better ride quality out of it. Its fine for the rest of this year but there will be a set of coilovers on my Christmas list

Thanks for the help Old Blue.

 

ZZP coilover kit has much shorter offset shocks. Maybe they'll sell them to you separately.

That said, I don't know why people severely lower their cars if they're going to drive regularly on the street. It's fine for show and needed for a track car, just not practical for real world roads.

 

Our roads are pretty good up here in Ontario. I've drivin lowered cars all my life and have never had a problem..........

 

The HHR has a very "short" suspension to begin with; about 3-4 inches compared to a 1980 Buick that travelled 5-6 inches. If you lower it 3 inches you are basically taking the shocks out of the equation.
When I loaded mine with 800 LBs It dropped an inch or so and I could tell the shocks were not doing anything.

 

I wonder if your OEM shocks are toast? I ran Canuck Motor Sports 2” lowering coils put over 250,000 miles on them with KYB shocks on Oldblue my 2007 LS no problems.

I saw you have had lowered vehicles in the paste, but did you trim the bump stops?