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any good?
Sunday, April 23, 2006 5:45 PM
are arospeed coilovers decent? just curious....

Re: any good?
Sunday, April 23, 2006 5:54 PM
NO



Re: any good?
Sunday, April 23, 2006 5:57 PM
To emphasize:

Event wrote:


6) Coilover Choices
Now on to coilovers, this section will be relatively short as I have already covered this. Instead there are 2 links posted that will reference you to information on what to look for and what not to look for.

***Once again courtesy of Bearsfan (Jerry A)***

Coil-Over Choices

1- AroSpeed - - - (Cheap Ebay Crap or CEC)
2- APC "Next Level" - - - (CEC)
3- Ground Control - - - (Best bang for the Buck get w/ Konis)
4- HMS CoilOvers - - - (Need Info & Input)
5- HP CoilOvers - - - (CEC)
6- MantaPart CoilOvers - - - (Decent choice)
7- Number 1 CoilOvers - - - (Need Info & Input)
8- RK Coilovers - - - (Similar to Ground Control, but use H&R springs)
9- Skunk2 Coilovers - - - (Not too bad, but still missing critical parts, better choices)
10- Spring Tech "Blue Line" - - - (CEC)
11- Tsudo Coilovers - - - (CEC)
12- Weapon-R "Circuit Pro" - - - (Not Much Info, but bad Info)
13- EBAY COILOVERS read the next link......

READ info on coilovers to find out whats DECENT and whats CRAP:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041105143649/www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=3&i=49870&t=40664

READ additional info on lowering at all, especially on coilovers and rksport full coilovers listed:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040506084207/http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=3&i=46968&t=43234


I would higly advise that you def read the first and second post in full. It will save you headaches in the long run and you wont screw up your ride by being cheap or simply not knowing.

A few combos of note in the spring & strut/ full coilover area are

***Once again courtesy of Bearsfan (Jerry A)***

Complete Coil-Over/ Spring & Strut Combos

1- RKSport "Pro-Street CoilOver" - - - (Very Good Choice)
2- MantaPart Sport Strut Coil-Over - - - (Very good Choice)
3- Bilstein Coil-Over Package - - - (Bilsteins, What Else can You Say)
4- Koni Red or Yellows w/ Eibach Springs via Highrevmotorsports - - - (Very Popular & Satisfying Combo)
5-Tokico D Spec Struts w/ Spring via Gravana Tuning - - - (Very Good Choice)
6- Koni Yellows w/ 1 inch front springs and 1.75 rear springs (Very Good Choice) --Gravanatuning.com and highrevmotorsports.com should have these..
7-Gravana Tuning Full 30+ way and Dual stage Loweing Coilovers (Soon to come out, but will prob be one if not THEE most adjustable coilovers for these cars)
8-Tein Basic Coilovers (Recently Came out)
9- KW coilovers Variants 1 and 2 (still yet to be released)





Re: any good?
Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:06 PM
welp that pretty much covers it



Re: any good?
Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:42 PM
Their spring rate is 450lb/in and they sag. They'll be uber-harsh and self-adjust your height downward over time.



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