tein coilovers
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blee
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tein coilovers
i'm looking at getting some tein coilers and i need a little real world info on the ra and the flex. do any of you guys know the pluses and minuses of these two both on and off the track? or can you reccomend something else?
RA is not really built for street and from what I know they will wear out prematurly from daily driving on the street.
Flex is a good setup and is supposed to allow for stroke adjustment like the Zeal B6's. Of the 2 I would probably get the flex's for cost and features. I have HA's and if I were to buy new now I would probably buy Zeal B6's and then Flex's.
Flex is a good setup and is supposed to allow for stroke adjustment like the Zeal B6's. Of the 2 I would probably get the flex's for cost and features. I have HA's and if I were to buy new now I would probably buy Zeal B6's and then Flex's.
Zeal
One of the more popular places to buy Zeal online is IPSracing.com
I really have not looked around too much to find them else where, but I'm sure there are a number of places that sell them.
As far as you saying your car is not a daily driver, do you mean it's a purpose built race car, or it's your weekend street car. Because as Trey sort of eluded to, many of the coilover systems out there are not meant for the street, though I would disagree with the wear thing. We run a variaty of different coil overs on different types of cars, and the reason people are ussualy coming back with ruined coilovers has nothing to do with premature wear, it's ussualy that they don't realize that the coilovers that they just spent $2500+ bucks on, were not designed to withstand the impact of a 7 inch deep pot hole, or that they can feel their teeth and everything else in their car ratling, or their car is what they consider to be too "bouncy".
Do your home work, and see what your driving style is really like and not just how you picture it, and if you do a lot more track then street, then look into a more tunable precise coil over, if not, don't spend the money, as I don't think you'll get what you expect.
Later!
Aj
I really have not looked around too much to find them else where, but I'm sure there are a number of places that sell them.
As far as you saying your car is not a daily driver, do you mean it's a purpose built race car, or it's your weekend street car. Because as Trey sort of eluded to, many of the coilover systems out there are not meant for the street, though I would disagree with the wear thing. We run a variaty of different coil overs on different types of cars, and the reason people are ussualy coming back with ruined coilovers has nothing to do with premature wear, it's ussualy that they don't realize that the coilovers that they just spent $2500+ bucks on, were not designed to withstand the impact of a 7 inch deep pot hole, or that they can feel their teeth and everything else in their car ratling, or their car is what they consider to be too "bouncy".
Do your home work, and see what your driving style is really like and not just how you picture it, and if you do a lot more track then street, then look into a more tunable precise coil over, if not, don't spend the money, as I don't think you'll get what you expect.
Later!
Aj
http://www.jdmspecperf.com is a great place to get Zeal's.
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blee
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thanks you guys for the replies. also, aj thank you for your reply. very informative. yeah my car is not a race car nor am i real race car driver so the best racing equipment will be wasted on me. i think that i'll try the flex because i heard that it has pretty good street manners as well as track. do you agree?
You got it.....
Yeah, i do agree, I think you'll get some good use out of them, and enjoy them quite a bit.
Good luck!!!
Aj
Good luck!!!
Aj