I have TEIN: Comfort Sport - coilovers, but Im wondering if because TEMS is an active suspension designed to resist load on the shock (it pushes back upward), is it a better suspension than a coilover? I mean, coilovers provide height, and damper adjustability which is a plus; however the active-factor during hard-driving seems to be a huge plus, while combined with the softness of OEM shocks during normal-driving. Although it's fixed at stock ride-height, you can take hard turns at 100mph with stability, on the TEMS system. I haven't exactly tried that on my TEIN's ...

 

Link to this TEMS you're talking about?

 

^+1. tems?

 

I think it came on jdm models and my mk3 had it back in the day and to be honest it sucked.

 

The UZZ32 had TEMS but it also had a crap ton of other sensors for the suspension as well. + they remapped the ECU because of all the extra weight that it added. But back to your question, could it be better? Yes, but to get all the parts it'd probably cost so much that I'm not sure it'd be worth it.

 

Toyota Electronic Modulated Suspension (TEMS) = Toyota's "EDFC"
The Active-Soarers not only have active-steering (rear wheel-steering), but an active-suspension also.
What happens is that, when a load is placed on the shock, this system kicks-in to compensate, and the shock will inflate to resist the load, basically re-balancing the car; thus the active Soarers have incredible handling as a result of this feature, and can corner at high-speed (100mph) w/ ease.

(FFWD to 3:50)


Soarer Active Shocks (Air-Powered)

 

The air suspension (and tems) was in the uzz31 and uzz32, but only the uzz32 had the active suspension ( the 4 wheel steering and hydro-pneumatic active suspension). Do you want the active suspension and TEMS or just TEMS? I know it's on top gear, but the speedo read 100~101 but unless he did some conversion for the speedo then that speed is in kph. cornering 100 kph and 100 mph is slightly different lol.

As for should you get it? From what I've read on the aussie soarer forums a lot of people say the TEMS is good but they end up replacing it w/ coilovers for better handling. They most likely didn't have the active suspension extras though just because I believe there was <900 uzz32s made.

This is slightly off track, but I know HKS has a TEMs controller don't know if it's for the mk3 only or if it'd work on the soarer as well but that'd probably be the way to get the most out of the system if you did install it.

 

TEMS factory suspension is soft...
Tien w/EDFC
or
Tanabe coilovers also have an electronic active controller. (Using the MKIV Coilovers on the SC)
http://www.tanabe-usa.com/teas.asp?id=17
is the way to go.

I'm pretty sure SC400TT has the EDFC system installed, not sure if functioning yet..

 

Well I already have TEIN coilovers, but fortunately, I just found this ...

http://www.tein.co.jp/e/products/edfc_active.html

 

You don't want to try and swap in a TEMs haha, waaaayyy too much trouble and it would let you down I'm sure.