looking for street coilovers

[1WICKED8]

just need some advice on what to get, I don't have a hole lot of money to spend.

Thanks

[lv05evo]

If you want something you don't have to "set-up" you should consider these.

PIC TSO's vs. Ksports (Review)

Here they are from there website.

http://www.pure-tuning.com/catalog/p...oducts_id=1964

Hope this helps.

[GTLocke13]

I know I'm chiming in on this one a little late, but there's no such thing as "street" coilovers. Coilovers are made for competition. Either they're engineered correctly and therefore expensive, or they're crap made to sell to people who don't know any better. The Evo will out-handle nearly any other car on the street. If you don't have a "hole" lot of money to spend, don't. Your stock suspension works just fine.

[Turbolover]

Originally Posted by GTLocke13

I know I'm chiming in on this one a little late, but there's no such thing as "street" coilovers. Coilovers are made for competition. Either they're engineered correctly and therefore expensive, or they're crap made to sell to people who don't know any better. The Evo will out-handle nearly any other car on the street. If you don't have a "hole" lot of money to spend, don't. Your stock suspension works just fine.

Just upgrade your stock suspension w/ some good springs (ex. Swift, etc.)

[03v8slayer]

There is Megan are cheap and some say they are good some say they are bad. i would go with KW / RobiSPEC they are good coilovers but not sure if they are in ur price range. But if u just drive the evo on the street stay stock save the money.

[jaytengan]

buddy club d-1 cheap and pretty confortable ride

[Ohitsmark]

Good Street coilovers that im using are STANCE

[Johnboy1065]

get megan street or megan track coilovers. I have the street and the ride isnt too bumpy for the street unless you set it to full stiffness.

[EGbeater]

Originally Posted by GTLocke13

I know I'm chiming in on this one a little late, but there's no such thing as "street" coilovers. Coilovers are made for competition. Either they're engineered correctly and therefore expensive, or they're crap made to sell to people who don't know any better. The Evo will out-handle nearly any other car on the street. If you don't have a "hole" lot of money to spend, don't. Your stock suspension works just fine.

I disagree. You don't have to pay top dollar to get ride height adjustability, pillow ball (spherical bearing) top mounts, adjustable damping, the ability to cornerweight your car, and increased (and easily tunable) spring rates to both control the inherent body roll of the Evo on stock springs, PLUS dial in the handling characteristics you want.

So far, the Megan "street" coilovers (with 550# GC rear springs substituted for the supplied 6 kg/mm or 335.2# rear springs) have been pretty impressive, especially for the price I paid ($600 shipped, brand new on eBay).

I've used them for autox and a track day:

My first track day in my Evo9 (w/ video clips)

- so I'm not just talking about "mountain driving" or whatever.

That being said, ALIGNMENT will get you a lot of handling improvement for way under $100. Get your rear toe setting to dead straight or maybe even 1/16" toed out per side, and the car will start to dance.

[BocaShula]

+1 on megan streets

[LaminarFlow]

Originally Posted by EGbeater

I've used them for autox and a track day:

LOL!! That's funny!! GTLocke argues no such thing as street coilover.. you disagree, than say you use them for autox and track day.. classic..

I'm with GTLocke.. save your money and get a RSB, rear trailing arm bushings and an agressive alignment.. that's more than enough improvement for the street.. Why do people need the car to "rotate" better, or "tune" the suspension for the street?? and if you want it to look better, get lowering springs.. if you want more grip, buy better tires...

[EGbeater]

Originally Posted by LaminarFlow

LOL!! That's funny!! GTLocke argues no such thing as street coilover.. you disagree, than say you use them for autox and track day.. classic..

You're not grasping what I stated very clearly: that you don't have to spend top dollar to realize significant handling improvements with your suspension mods. I didn't contest whether or not "street coilovers" existed. That's just semantics anyway.

I used the term "street" in my post to describe the Megan coilovers that I have, because that's what the manufacturer calls them:

http://www.meganracing.com/products/...d=350&catid=93

Originally Posted by LaminarFlow

save your money and get a RSB, rear trailing arm bushings and an agressive alignment.. that's more than enough improvement for the street.. Why do people need the car to "rotate" better, or "tune" the suspension for the street??

Again, I never said I was tuning my car for "street performance" - I just happen to use my Evo for both daily driving AND autox/track days.

Originally Posted by LaminarFlow

and if you want it to look better, get lowering springs.. if you want more grip, buy better tires...

Wow. Oversimplification 101.

[LaminarFlow]

Hey EG... didn't mean to imply i was attacking you personally.. I agree with everything you said... I just spent $2k on coilovers and enjoy playing with the settings. I dd and track my car too. But at no time did I ever think i was buying them for street driving, quite the opposite.. They're sole purpose is for faster lap times at track.. thats it... and at the expense of a number of negative compromises for the street. Hence the idea of "street coilovers" is like an oxymoron to me. But hey, this thread is way old and the OP will probebly never look at it anyway...

[el producto]

Originally Posted by LaminarFlow

Hey EG... didn't mean to imply i was attacking you personally.. I agree with everything you said... I just spent $2k on coilovers and enjoy playing with the settings. I dd and track my car too. But at no time did I ever think i was buying them for street driving, quite the opposite.. They're sole purpose is for faster lap times at track.. thats it... and at the expense of a number of negative compromises for the street. Hence the idea of "street coilovers" is like an oxymoron to me. But hey, this thread is way old and the OP will probebly never look at it anyway...

yea cuz you got pwnt by saying "if you want lower go with springs" "if you want more grip get better tires"

[EvoKnievo]

its pretty funny that people think a "good" street coilover is just a outrageously crappy bottom of the barrel product.


spring rates and rebound will affect how it rides not, price/quality (directly that is.)

you can buy any coilover and change the springs, re valve it or adjust its dampening level. to yield a vast sum of different characteristics.


but if your goal is to get something cheap because you yourself do not think that you will notice a difference and/or want to slam your car on its balls. lower than the 2 inches springs will give you then spend 2k on a entry level set of ohlins.