will you actually be doing track events  and have you done them?



if you plan on doing tracke vents go with coilovers, i personally have tein ss coilovers and love them, it took me about 3-4 months to get them adjusted perfectly to where i wanted them, but not i love them, perfect belnd of street driveability with track handling



if you have the money go with the jic's but ill tell you the teins are just fine, and overhaul for them is cheap, but ill tell you right now mine have about 20k miles on them, and not one problem yet, nor do i see any wear and tear on them, and ive put them through a track event, lots of drag, and harsh street driving


but honestly coilovers unless you plan on doing some sort of track events are useless for street driving as youll never really use them for what theyre suppose to on the street

JIC out of those 3 without a doubt.

dont even waste your time with ksports.

Yeah, i was thinking bout going with the JIC or the Ksports GT Pro Coilovers....I do not want to go with the basics from them, but I wanna hear what you guys would have to say about your experiences with you suspension setup.  I heard alot of people going with the Tein SS though.  Honestly, i really dont care bout the ride, the stiffer the better (for some reason i like extremely stiff rides, maybe im wierd or to see my g/f's boobies jiggle...i dunno. lol)

take everyone's advice and do NOT get ksports.  i have ss's and love them for dd'ing and track.  jics are overrated.

^^^^ i couldn't disagree with you more.

sticky667 wrote:

shock+spring setup is best.  period

true, but this is ony true when you perfectly match a shock and spring combo


a coilover setup is essentially this, but is also adjustable

sticky667 wrote:

shock+spring setup is best.  period

What would you suggest for a shock and spring combo?

nismored wrote:

JIC out of those 3 without a doubt.

QFT.  I've beat on mine for 56k and they ride like the day I bought 'em.

Honestly man, I recommend reading through what this guy has to say.
It is a different perspective.
It is true data and information from an engineer who applies the principles to racing/auto X and what not.
Gives reasoning behind his information
This is a great resource

http://farnorthracing.com/autocross_secrets.html

MisterNuts wrote:

nismored wrote:

JIC out of those 3 without a doubt.

QFT.  I've beat on mine for 56k and they ride like the day I bought 'em.

Where did you purchase your Coilover setup? How much?

02SERious wrote:

when you say spring and strut combo, most people think of eibach springs with kyb gr2 struts or something like that. Many people think of the koni/gc setup a coil-over strut setup like the pre-assembled setups sold by tein and jic. but yes, the koni/gc setup is the best.

Yea, i heard that setup was pretty good. hmmmmm.........

I wish I had 700 bucks man.

sticky667 wrote:

omar wrote:

sticky667 wrote:

you can build one that performs 100x better with quality parts for roughly the same price

riiiiggghhhht thats why most people that actually track their cars use shock and spring combos over coilover setups 





you will have more adjustability with coilovers then a shock and spring combo


you will have (if properly tuned) a more agressive suspension with a coilover setup

but you will also pay more


you always get what you pay for

you're wrong but ok

and actually if you read the nasa or scca forums.. people who are winning are using shock/spring (koni/gc) combos more often than "pre-built coilovers"

if you read what i said.. you can build a "coilover" for roughly the same price as the cheap shit people are buying and the performance would be 100x better

koni shocks with sleeves and eibach race springs with a camber plate. basically a "coilover" with QUALITY parts.   koni/gc setup with any rate you want are ~850.. another ~350 for GC camber plate = 1200$ for the same price as Tein or JIC.

technically were both right, but i will tell you this our scene in az for the majority is coilovers, because theyre more simplistic, in the way that as what you said before, a shock and spring combo can cost the same as coilovers, but while theyre not a perfectly matched spring shock combo in a coilover, theyre pretty well damn close to it



coilovers versus a shock and spring combo, is like building your own turbo kit, its not hard, but does require some knowlege of what your doing


OP, whichever you choose, take note, theyre not just bolt ons, and do require adjustment, and lots of trial and error

look into ground control springs for now, theres a group buy here. ur car is an 06 so ur struts should hold up fine for maybe a year then go for koni yellows and ull be set. unless you want looks then go for a full coilover which you can lower the car by alot and still have decent shock travel. i decided to go the cheap way, it is more work but its worth it to me

gmarrero89 wrote:

look into ground control springs for now, theres a group buy here. ur car is an 06 so ur struts should hold up fine for maybe a year then go for koni yellows and ull be set. unless you want looks then go for a full coilover which you can lower the car by alot and still have decent shock travel. i decided to go the cheap way, it is more work but its worth it to me

The last car that i had, I went with springs and kept the stock struts and that turned into a nightmare.  The struts only lasted 3 months after I had installed the springs due to the road conditions back then.  It was shit.

omar wrote:

but does require some knowlege of what your doing

It requires a LOT of knowledge to get coilovers adjusted right...