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i'm looking to buy some coilovers with 12kg front and 10kg rear spring rates, has anyone here had experience with these as im interested in how stiff they would be, the coilovers also have 32 damper adjustments, so say the spring rates are too stiff, could you soften them up by using the damper adjustments, thanks in advance, the car would be mainly for street use by the way

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Yeah depends how tolerant you are towards these kinda things.

For street use would be a bit too stiff IMO, and would make driving it daily a bit of a pain.

Not to mention if you are into hill runs and the like, a car with these will handle worse on uneven roads than stockies. The bumpiness will throw the whole car off balance as the suspension wont really absorb the bumps well.

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It's likely the shocks will not be able to cope with the huge spring rates.

also, there is virtually no way the shock can "adjust" the springing - it only adjusts the damping.

to adjust the springs, you will have to change the springs.

WAY OTT for the road.

try someting more like 6 and 4 for a GTR for road use

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Way too high, why would you want high spring rates in what is mainly a daily driver? Look into normal lowered springs, upgraded shocks and some swaybars to control the roll. Dont try and control roll with springs, especially not in a daily driver!

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Might i ask why you're looking at such high spring rates for a daily driver?

i'll agree with most of them here that you should go with lower spring rate. Especially since you're driving a GTST.

i'M not wanting to start another thread, so here goes..

1. Has anyone had any experience with Buddy Club Jr Spec Coilovers? How are they like? will be running it in a Silvia

2. I've heard/read that HKS Hipermax Performers have pretty bad shocks. Anyone able to explain furthur aside from the ride being too stiff?

3. Which would be better? Greddy Type-s Coilovers or these Buddy Club ones

Thanks

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I own a R32 GTR and just installed brand new TEIN Monoflex coilovers, they run front 7kg and rear 7kg with 32 point damper adjustment, and i can say that they are absolutely brilliant with about 4 inch of Base height adjustment to come down so that the springs stay same height.

They are still comfortable on softest setting car is shit loads more rigid with alot less body role.

Mind you i have them 3.5inches lowered rolling on 20inch rims hehe so anything smaller in rim size would be perfect also, good luck but i swear buy Tein all my mates have had them for years and tracked there cars heaps and no problems.

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im running Tein HAs ATM with s pring rate of Front: 9 and Rears : 8 and its good and dont forget its a stagea. I had the valving swapped to Oz specs by fulcrum suspension. And its firm but nice. The car feels like its stuck to the road when going on rough roads. I had the damper set to the softest on the fron and 3 clicks from the softest at the rear

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im running Tein HAs ATM with s pring rate of Front: 9 and Rears : 8 and its good and dont forget its a stagea. I had the valving swapped to Oz specs by fulcrum suspension. And its firm but nice. The car feels like its stuck to the road when going on rough roads. I had the damper set to the softest on the fron and 3 clicks from the softest at the rear

can i ask how much it was for your HA's to be revalved by fulcrum?

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i've just installed some

tein circuit master type RA into my r33 with 10kg front and rear spring rate (racing springs as tein call them), i have yet to drive the car yet (due to not having a gearbox) but once i do, i will let you know what the ride is like.

i had previously had d2 coilovers which had a huge spring-rate and i found it drivable in street-condition abit bumpy and i got uses to it

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