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Hi guys,

I've got a little bit of a dilemma. My girlfriend smashed my ride a couple of months ago and I'm nearly ready to get it back on the road except I'm up for a new set of coilovers. Now my question is that I'm looking at getting a set of ISC Coilovers and I'm not sure if I should get a set of adjustable swaybars from whiteline aswell. I live in the south coast of NSW and our roads are pretty crappy so I don't want to comprimise ride quality to much. Does anyone have any experience with the ISC coilovers ie. are their spring rates exceptionally hard or not enough adjustment etc. Does anyone have a combination of the whiteline and ISC gear.

Any feedback would be great as this is the last stop for me before my car is drivable again.

Thanks

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Sway bars are the way to go for sure the best suspension mod I done on my old car

just make sure you get adjustable set.I had coil overs fitted which wear 8kg front

6kg rear and they wear way to hard and dangerous to drive they didn't have enough

travel and because they were to hard didn't soak up the bumps and skipped over the

top thus reduced braking.On a section of road that I allways tested on were actually

slower. I couldnt wait to get them out they were crap,on a race track only they may of

been ok, may being the key word.What I ended up doing was getting SK bilsteins

group buy kit and they were fantastic car handled like a dream firm but not over the

top and soaked up all the bumps and they are height adj buy the circlip on the shock

body.Its just a old meyth that you need a stiff set of coil overs for a car to handle

thats just not true.

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