CallmeQ

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I'm on KYB GR-2/Tanabe combo and it seems that my car is pretty bouncy and tends to take the larger bumps pretty hard. On a smooth road it feels great but once I hit some waves or roughness it seems magnified 10x over.

Does anyone else experience that?

How does coil overs feel on a rough surface?

vvtisupra

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I'm running TeinHA at half stiffness. Ride is pretty nice. Slightly firm but nothing near harsh.

Matador

On other cars I noticed that lowering springs were quite a bit more bouncy than coilovers. I dont know if its due to a softer spring or what, but I wont get anything besides coils now.

CallmeQ

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That seems to line up with the experiences that I am reading about. Excuse the noobish question but what is the main different between springs and coil overs other than height adjustment?

ReeM

Im running the same thing only cause that's the way i bought it. Its horrible. I hit a hard bump and bent my rim pretty bad, luckily i was able to fix it. The bumps are hard on the car. There's no space for your shocks to take the hits. Put it like this...its like going down for a squat with your legs in a 90 degree angle. I'm getting coilovers so i can drop it low for events and ride a little higher or stock when i'm driving regularly. With coilovers you can adjust it low, medium or high. And it also has to do with what area you live in.

Matador

Coilovers are a 1 piece set up with height and dampening adjustments. When you get springs/shocks they work well enough, but werent necessarily designed to go with one another. Ive only seen one set up work really well, I think it was like gixxer-drew/bilstein or something like that. Besides that most people lean towards coilovers nowadays. It also helps that the price of new coilovers has dropped quite a bit, especially with some lower end (but not bad) brands cranking out coils for all different makes/models.

ReeM

Lowering Springs just lower your car to the desired measurement of the spring. Some give you 1 inch, 2 inch etc. they come that way already. (correct me if im wrong) Coilovers are fully customizable. (not a word but it fits the sentence thank you. lol) it comes with a wrench so you can adjust the desired height.

ReeM

^^^^ What he said lol.

deknick

of course lowering springs are going to be bouncy/hard, they're not designed to be like that. coilovers on the other hand, such as my k-sports, are 100% adjustable, including, height, rebound, and damper. the Tein HA's are garbage. i know first hand, as i had mine, and if you go lower enough to come close to rubbing the wheel wells, you turn up the damnper, and it feels like a mexican lowrider on hydrualics. i'm so glad they siezed on me causing me to have to buy new ones.

get a good set of NEW coilovers, and it'll fix that boucny/hardness your feeling

CallmeQ

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Thank you everyone. So I pretty much am decided on getting coil overs once I get some other issues out of the way. I want to remain cost effective so I may go with the Megan's or K-sports depending on what the research uncovers about each.



Thats how I feel. I drive up to New York occasionally and just came back from DC a couple weeks ago and the ride was a mess on the rougher streets. It definitely feels like there is no room for the suspension to travel. Which is weird given the fact that the car isn't slammed or anything like that. This setup must be made for super smooth japanese roads or something like that.

deknick

I'm sooo happy with my K-sports, firm enough it doens't cause major issues with rubbing, but soft enough to be able to DD it, and i know, cause i put over 80km's on it just to work and back daily