what kind of springs are these?

My tokicos were very tight in the tube, so tight i had to grind the label off of them to get them to fit. That looks like NA shocks in a turbo tube..

I just removed my stock cartridges this past weekend. There is a little seal that is suppose to go around the top that fills that gap/prevents the wiggle. The body of the cartridge will still be very loose in the strut tube.

My 2 cents based on what I saw when I took mine apart.

When I put my tokico's in, they were a different design. They were a bigger diameter and filled the entire tube. There was no seal to install on the top like the stock set up.

You can see a picture of the seal in my thread from this past weekend.

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the springs i bought from some character that claimed they were for a z.
my car is an 87na and i ordered na strut cartridges, did i get the wrong part or did my na happen to come with turbo tubes?
do tokico sturts not require a seal and others do? there was no seal in mine.

I don't believe the Tokico's require a seal. They didn't come with one. I didn't re-use the old one as it wouldn't have fit anyway.

Are those Tokico's in the picture you posted? If so, I would say they are fitting differently than mine. My car is a 87 NA as well.

Let me comment on my last comment as it's a bit hard to tell from the picture you posted.

My tokico's slid into the tube with no resistance. There is very slight play. It's suppose to have a little play so oil can be in the tube around the cartridge.

I didn't put a seal around the "top" of the cartridge where the gland nut attaches. I don't think the old one would have worked (size wise) and the new cartridge didn't come with one.

I just dropped the tokico cartridge in (with oil around them) and re-installed the gland nut. Like I said, it had a smidge of wiggle, but it wasn't sloppy wiggle. (hope that helps…)