you dont know his situation, theres plenty of people driving round with spring rates like this or harder so 'way too hard' is probably a bit of a pointless comment. Price wise its not too bad, however the bigger issue is they're some new cheapy brand thats only been seen on ebay, have a look at caz's website for some budget coilovers that at least have a reputation & some parts support. Another choice is to jump onto importmonster & find a used set in japan to have imported. Just take your time looking if you go this route, top end brands/models pop up in good condition fairly regularly. Only con's are your always taking a bit of a punt on condition & they take a couple months to ship out. Now if your zeds a daily driver & the roads you drive on have plenty of potholes then yes, the spring rates are going to be harsh but you may be willing to put up with that. If its only a weekender then no dramas at all. That said I wouldn't go any harder than this (ie. 12/10) lowzx is very vaguely suggesting the more common 6/4 or 8/6 spring rate combos. If you do go the harder spring rates then its not completely neccessary to go for aftermarket swaybars, plenty of people have found thats what makes the ride a bit too harsh when combined with harder spring rates. If your regularly tracking yours though then its probably still worth a go. cheers, Tim
Price is OK, no idea about the quality of the coilover though. 10kg and 8kg is too hard even for a track car. But you may never notice the difference. If you are serious about track use and want well researched, well engineered coilovers then you need to up your budget.
i vaguely suggest because he doesnt research anything yep,rob and i know nothing about coilovers do we ,10 and 8 is totally wrong for a street car as far as "theres plenty of people driving with spring rates like this",thats rubbish,most on here have either jap or aus spec
jap or aus spec what? cars? yes in that case your completely correct, would be silly to import a lhd one anyway well anyone with tein monoflex (& theres a few) is about 9/7, my hks's are around that too though not 100% sure what as springs arent labelled but they're certainly not 6/4. plus there's all the people that run the cheaper d2's, hsr's, etc not to mention cusco's or pretty much anything else from japan bar tein superstreets or flex. At the end of day like I said in the last post it depends what you use your car for. Mines no longer a daily so I dont mind the odd bumpy freeway ride into town as the rest of the time its great.That said though my ride isn't soley due to the springs I've also got swaybars & a carbing front strut brace. & i never said rob didnt know anything about coilovers.
I'm not an expert , but from what I've gathered 8 kg/mm front and 6 kg/mm rear is a good setup for track and street . Which is what I got from Caz , I can't really comment on them atm though , as the cars still in pieces on the shed floor http://www.cazracing.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=40&products_id=280
well he didnt agree either lol,but each to his own Im talking about the aus spec/jap spec coilover rate,not the bloody cars 8 and 6 is a nice compromise drew,thats what im running on LOWZX (TEIN FLEX),on the t/t i have aus spec (TEIN S/S) which is slightly softer Im guessing everyone will have different views on what better for their driving style
I have looked into these its an american company and apparently they sub contract to GReddy and also are about to launch deal with Pedders or something? wholesale suspension are the guy to talk to i think. They have competed in redline time attack and got 2nd place in a few races so there suspension cant be that crap!! They can change the spring rates and also revalve so no troubles there looks the goods to me.
