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I quite like the HKS Hypermaxx II. Thye best car i have ever driven at teh track had them and Nismo adjustable arms. The car was brilliant to drive. Much better then my car.

On the street though it was a bit harsh...but on the track i quite liked it. And combined with that it seemed very quick and grippy as well

Yeah...spot on with what I would say.

My HMax2's are very noisy (compared to the standard)..but are simply awsome and provide much confidence when trying someting you 'saw in a cartoon' once!!

Mine are set to super-soft setting, but they still wreck your back!!! LOL! >_<

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Superspit.

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can't take credit for finding that article - its stickied here in the suspension section. just seemed relevant to link into this thread.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...howtopic=161623

Roy Grand Master

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, but to say its not a handling track I think is a little far fetched.

To go very fast around Sandown (I'm talking sub 1:20's), there is a lot of ripple strip jumping, a suspension with short travel and the inability to absorb bumps at speed will throw the car off the track.... I'd be inclined to say that you'd need less suspension at PI than you would at Sandown, coz of how smooth PI is.. Correct me if I'm wrong...

My car is much happier at Sandown then it is PI. I run out of suspension real quick at PI, but at Sandown the soft suspension allows me to brake deep at turn 1 with all the bumps and hammer ripple strips. LOL...at PI i lift the slightest amount and my car gets lost mid corner with no stability :) PI needs a lot more spring just becuse of the corner speeds/Gs. Sandown needs good shock/spring setup so you can handle the bumps in braking areas and ripples strips. So different thats all.

I now agree with JAGR33. Sandown my be a drag strip, bu ti think you need far better suspension as it is simply so bumpy. PI is smoother and with crappy suspension you are simply slow. With crappy suspension at Sandown...you may end up in a lot of strife if the car does not ride the bumps as me and RowdyR32 have founf out

Snowman Grand Master

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Brisby - you could have $20K proflex suspension but if you jump on the brakes with oil on your rear tyres you're still going to crash into the wall.

Having said that Sandown does need some suspension that can ride bumps as has been said already. I'd add wakefield to that from my short experiences there. IMO the standard shocks are better at Sandown than a lot of the hard jap stuff. But the opposite is true at PI.

If I was going to have picked a suspension from the original list it would have been the Tein Flex. They seem by far the best of the "basic" Jap stuff that is available.

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MADGT4

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I dunno if anyone has mentioned it but have you had a look into these...?

http://www.silkroad-jp.com/section/a8.html

Im currently using TEINS (GTS4 - still the same) but have experienced a car using the Sections and i instantly fell inlove, deff swapping when the time comes!

I would however say that the ride was something that wouldn't be pleasant day in day out with normal driving.

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