Coilover question?

[Black91n/a]

It's always people without winter always seem to chime in about how really stiff springs can be fine on the street. That may be true where you are, since I'd bet your roads are in MUCH better condition than the crap that lots of us have to drive on.

I don't know of any coilover that lets you specify a spring rate other than their standard rates without some extra cost, and very few will revalve them to suit and it will always be at an extra cost. If you're talking about really high end stuff that they build to suit, that won't be the case, but that's not exactly in the realm of what 99% of people will be considering.

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by josh18_2k

off the shelf struts are not valved for 8/6 springs (or anything near that high)
any drop in shock must be revalved if you want it to handle properly.
after buying all the components, and revalving the shocks, it will probably be cheaper and easier to just have bought a complete coilover setup.

another advantage to coilovers is you get height adjustment on the shock body, instead of just the coilover sleeve. as you lower a car with the sleeve, you lose shock travel (no bueno).

I agree and disagree at the same time. When talking C/O's then yes, adjusting the shock body up and down and keeping the travel the same is a VERY nice thing. However, if you are going with a matched, revalved Koni or Bilstien with a hieght adjustable sleeve put together by a shop that REALLY knows their stuff, than loosing a bit of shock travel isn't going to be that bad of a thing. The key is to find a shop with the experience to do it properly. I can only think of two in the US

Originally Posted by Heeley

I assume they then revalve the dampers to match?

Not always. Generally when you order a set of C/O's the dampers are designed to be used with springs within one, sometimes two weight adjustments. So if you ordered an 8/6 (as I did with my FC) you can go 7/5 or 9/6 without worrying about revalving. Personally I'm running a 7/5 now and I'm happy on the street. Hopefully next year I'll see some more track time and actually be able to experiment a little more.

Originally Posted by Black91n/a

It's always people without winter always seem to chime in about how really stiff springs can be fine on the street. That may be true where you are, since I'd bet your roads are in MUCH better condition than the crap that lots of us have to drive on.

I don't know of any coilover that lets you specify a spring rate other than their standard rates without some extra cost, and very few will revalve them to suit and it will always be at an extra cost. If you're talking about really high end stuff that they build to suit, that won't be the case, but that's not exactly in the realm of what 99% of people will be considering.

Depends, when I ordered my Stances through Rishie I called Stance and talked to them for quite some time about thier product. They tossed in a set of 7/5 to try with my 8/6's. This was also in thier infant stage so I'm sure that's changed slightly.

The roads in the NE REALLY suck. My city especially is under alot of construction right now and there are roads that litterally raise my blood pressure when I drive down them in my LIFTED JEEP! There are some that I won't even take my FC down but some dumb fuck in city planning decided to do construction on both the roads leaving the penisula that I live on. Can't escape it anywhere in the NE. Even the highways are all pretty nasty. So yeah, when trying to balance plush street driving with a good track suspension, you need to lean one way or the other.