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You forgot about BC coilovers with spindles as well and I see Megan Racing is also coming out with Spec-RS Coilovers soon as well. Im perrty set on the bc's but I want to see what the new Megan's are going to be like.
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All the ones you have listed are made in china. They should all be about the same.Best setup is to make your own using high quality parts. Hts shocks and trd or swift springs is an unbeatable combo. Or dg5 but they are priced accordingly.
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| Re: Coilovers Recomendations please (THE86OFAZTEC) » | 2:19 PM 3/29/2010 |
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im in the same boat but no one replied to my thread. let me know what you end up with, the price, and the ride quality 
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I hear the greddy type s coilovers are terrible well the rears anyways.. (too stiff valved for r compounds) So i'm told anyways.. Heard nice things about the stance.. as far as k sport or megan not a fan.on my personal car i run custom front coilover setup front
shortened casing with weld on sleeve 8kg spring, tein camber plate, t3 nrcra, with kyb agx ss shock rear
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| Re: Coilovers Recomendations please (THE86OFAZTEC) » | 6:50 PM 3/29/2010 |
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Thanks everybody. Any other comments?
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I thought they were made in Taiwan 
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| Quote, originally posted by mr john » | | All the ones you have listed are made in china. They should all be about the same. Best setup is to make your own using high quality parts. Hts shocks and trd or swift springs is an unbeatable combo. Or dg5 but they are priced accordingly. |
x elevendy million Just build your own. It's incredibly easy, you get to say you made them, and it's with quality parts, AND it's a fraction of the cost!
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| Quote, originally posted by HASportAE86 » | x elevendy million Just build your own. It's incredibly easy, you get to say you made them, and it's with quality parts, AND it's a fraction of the cost! |
saw this in the autox thread: these for the rear:
http://www.daymotorsports.com/...ACERS
http://www.colemanracing.com/s...d=705 and GC for the fronts.
budget coilovers.
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I've used the daymotorsports spring spacers for my Alfa track car. The quality is the lowest of the low, but for the price I decided to go with it. I bought the non-height adjustable spring perches.All I can say is that the blue springs sold by Daymotorsports are off on the spring rates by like 40%. I did the math, bought some blue springs and they were much too stiff for what they were supposed to be. IF you under shoot their listed rates by about 40-50% like I mentioned, I think you will be close. I would just get spring spacers that fit the TRD or Swift racing springs.
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| Quote, originally posted by mr john » | | All the ones you have listed are made in china. They should all be about the same. Best setup is to make your own using high quality parts. Hts shocks and trd or swift springs is an unbeatable combo. Or dg5 but they are priced accordingly. |
LOL +1 on what Mr. John Said Greddy is made in Taiwan you just can't go wrong when you are using the best shocks (TRD or HTS) with TRD or Swift Springs
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D-2 are the same as Ksport fyi.has anyone seen/have these? They are STANDARD or STD. 
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I know D2's and K-sports are garbage on S13/14's.
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Just make your own? HTS struts, shorten the casings 40mm. done. Costs alot less.
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I would like to know what brand those are as well. They look good.
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| Quote, originally posted by Camber King » | | I would like to know what brand those are as well. They look good. |
Re-read his post. They are STD coilovers.
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i ended up getting the stance. they ride super nice.
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I have
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gc coilovers with 8kg gc springs in the front
t3 camber plates
t3 rca's
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6.5kg rear swift springsI actually felt like 1500$ did something to my car for once. So ima have to agree with mr. john. Best setup ez unless you have the cash to get a kei office setup?
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i have megans this time around.. good as greddy imo... same feel to me.. but to be 100% honest.. i like my old short stroke backyard classic setup the most thus far..if i did it again id go taht route again
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| Quote, originally posted by Jeonsah » | I have
tokiko hts short stroke shocks
gc coilovers with 8kg gc springs in the front
t3 camber plates
t3 rca's
t3 lateral bar
6.5kg rear swift springsI actually felt like 1500$ did something to my car for once. So ima have to agree with mr. john. Best setup ez unless you have the cash to get a kei office setup? |
I'm planning on following that more-or-less. I already have T3 NRCA's and an adjustable lateral bar.I suggest picking up a Speedway Motors racing catalog. Tons of springs, perches, sleeves, etc. for making your own. They sell tons of thread shocks, too for rears.
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Camber King
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I ended up getting Stance coil overs and must I say great quality. Definitely worth the buy but still kind of pricey but id by them again =p
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| Quote, originally posted by Grant » | | I know D2's and K-sports are garbage on S13/14's. |
oh GOD YES! i rocked them on my 13 back in 2003-2004, worst coilover ever 
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I had Megan's on my s13/240 from 07-march '10 when i sold it. ~65k and alot of "spirited" corning. and still to the day i sold them they out lasted a friend tiens. ride qualtiy was what you would expect from a coilover... The AE i have Greddy. and ride the same as the megans.
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there's also garage-tune coilovers for $850 + shipping.
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| Re: Coilovers Recomendations please (THE86OFAZTEC) » | 5:11 AM 8/18/2010 |
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Im not sure exactly sure what model Cusco sleeves my friend used but the frame of them was black and 'extremely rare' as he said. He had 9kg trd springs front and 7 in the rear. Supposedly an amazing setup.
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i'm using greddy and I cant say they are any better than my old setup:front:
Ground Control Coil Overs w/ 9kg springs
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trd springs 7kg
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| Re: Coilovers Recomendations please (THE86OFAZTEC) » | 2:43 PM 8/25/2010 |
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Lower rates: soft and comfortable. AGXs are soft and poorly valved.
Fine for show or restoration. Soft and boring otherwise.6k / 4k with HTS for daily, and some light track/ grip, Learn to drift, etc. Great daily setup that's real world usable and nice for "touge". 8/6 for some street, mostly track or drift.
Greddys are decent for a track rat but suck on the street, over bumps and on the highway they can be scary. Stance are the nicest affordable off the shelf option. Higher rates; Hard core drift setup. Bonus round: JRZ or Moton if your a real baller. Custom rates and valving. The sex of coilovers. Amazing.
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| Re: Coilovers Recomendations please (Sbailey294) » | 12:39 AM 8/27/2010 |
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Here's a tip from me who has the Stance, get an LSD if you do! I almost considered the rear suspension useless until I got the LSD in for this last event. Before LSD the rear end was bouncing all over in turns. I think it made me SLOWER than stock as Id be fighting this. After the LSD was installed, that problem went away. What was happening was in turn as exiting I'd try to accelerate, but the inside tire would spin, then momentarily hook up, cause the car to jerk, wheel start spinning again, grip momentarily, etc. With the LSD the power application was consistent, and oversteer became instantly possible.
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D-2 are nothing like k sports . D-2 = cheaply made pile of poop. ive rocked K sports before and yes the shocks do blow nuts but K sports never snapped in half for me when i spun out or went into a rocky dried up riverbed/hit mountain walls... Unlike D-2 so ive heard and seen pics of snapping in half on a 240sx just because of sliding it... but never for k sports...... So i dont know how d-2 even compares with k sports or is even up in the polls..............
i have greddys now and i love them for dd!!!! beats my homemade setup and k sport that i use to rock. Only down fall is the spring rates on greddys if you want to do some hardcore track/drift imo but they can be changed oh and price maybe ..... Pay your moneys worth for something nice and you wont regret it. Greddys! for dd or t3 or make your own.  <br /><br />
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| Re: Coilovers Recomendations please (TurtleDude) » | 1:16 PM 9/25/2010 |
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| Quote, originally posted by TurtleDude » | | Im not sure exactly sure what model Cusco sleeves my friend used but the frame of them was black and 'extremely rare' as he said. He had 9kg trd springs front and 7 in the rear. Supposedly an amazing setup. |
Henry you mean? No not that rare. You no i drove his car and it wasnt anything special.
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