What brand are the coilovers? If they are a good brand, they should be easy to adjust to your liking. Any good brand can be revalved, if you choose, and if the spring rates are too stiff, you can purchase springs separately. The spring noise you are hearing may be caused from the spring being too short for the fully extended travel of the strut. This might be cured by simply adding helper springs, that can be acquired from the same source.
My major concern with the car would be the condition of the car. By this, I mean that I would generally rather find a good, unmodified car, with the thought that it might not be as abused as someones hot rod project. Think about it. Would you rather have a stocker that some old lady babied, or a some punk´s playtoy? I´ll take the old lady´s any day.
Just go over the car thoroughly, especially the body, engine, and tranny. Personally, I would rather a perfect body and a trashed engine, since once a car´s body has been tweaked, it never seems the same, and engine work is half the fun.
Have fun shopping.
Marcus
My major concern with the car would be the condition of the car. By this, I mean that I would generally rather find a good, unmodified car, with the thought that it might not be as abused as someones hot rod project. Think about it. Would you rather have a stocker that some old lady babied, or a some punk´s playtoy? I´ll take the old lady´s any day.
Just go over the car thoroughly, especially the body, engine, and tranny. Personally, I would rather a perfect body and a trashed engine, since once a car´s body has been tweaked, it never seems the same, and engine work is half the fun.
Have fun shopping.
Marcus