Drummond Motor Sport Coilovers

[Grunter]

Has anyone had any experience with these or know anyone who has? Thinking of buying

these down the track, so after peoples thoughts on these.Any help would be great thanks

in advance.

Cheers

[Swiper the Fox]

top shelf product...you wont be disappointed.

[gslrallysport]

^ Yep! What he said! We refuse to sell the cheaper, 'name' brand coilovers that are becoming popular just because of macca's cred of having 'coilovers', when half the time they don't work, or need rebuilding after only months of use. At least with the DMS gear, we sell it, knowing it will out perform the customer's expectation, and won't come back broken in 6 months time...

DMS are either hideously expensive when compared to D2/K Sport/Tein etc., or ridiculously cheap when compared to Ohlins/Sachs/Reigers etc. You can look at it either way depending on how serious you are, but the later is more representative of the product!

[Grunter]

^ Yep! What he said! We refuse to sell the cheaper, 'name' brand coilovers that are becoming popular just because of macca's cred of having 'coilovers', when half the time they don't work, or need rebuilding after only months of use. At least with the DMS gear, we sell it, knowing it will out perform the customer's expectation, and won't come back broken in 6 months time...

DMS are either hideously expensive when compared to D2/K Sport/Tein etc., or ridiculously cheap when compared to Ohlins/Sachs/Reigers etc. You can look at it either way depending on how serious you are, but the later is more representative of the product!

You get what you pay for,In my old car I got a well so called good brand jap coilover, and the car handled like shit was slower

and dangerous to drive.I would rather have a car that handles rather than a 1000hp car that is not much quicker than a std 1

around a track.Something that handles the same speed around a corner as the straight = fun My next car Im going to put

about $7000 or more all up just for suspension mods .The price for a set of DMS coilovers are pretty reasonable I think

Thanks for the feed back keep it coming.

[gslrallysport]

The price for a set of DMS coilovers are pretty reasonable I think

I totally agree, but unfortunately we get a lot of "oh, that's a bit more than i expected" after people have already priced up other cheaper brands of coilovers... I'm with in in that I'd rather throw the best in and not have to worry about them, or regret paying that little bit extra for quality. We just run the basic 40mm DMS struts in our gravel rally car and they're great. The 50mm are a whole another level again...

What have you been quoted for them?

[Grunter]

The car I was going to buy fell through at the last min it was a S14 (But I might start looking at a S15 or Evo 6.5)

From memory I think they were $3800 mark around there somewhere

[NZM.031]

a guy i work with has used them for rallying in his excel, and an evo that he rallys with, he said they were great, but fell apart quickly as there were alot of little touches that just werent there, like locking rings, he said they were good, but needed constant attention and it added time to their stops, and he said he had to send them back to get rebuilt.. they also couldnt handle the pounding of the rallying after 6 months so he went with a slightly more expensive set that he could rebuild himself.

[Roy]

Comer on man, be fair. You are talking about shocks needing attention after 6 months of rallying....any idea of the sort of abuse they take over single event? I would sugest a single rally event woudl be worth 40-50,000kms of street driving.

Especially when you consider that a clutch needs replacing after 2-3 rallies....and at the other extreme they say a single track day is about 6-8,000kms of street driving....then the shocks dont seem to be hanging in there too badly

[gslrallysport]

a guy i work with has used them for rallying in his excel, and an evo that he rallys with, he said they were great, but fell apart quickly as there were alot of little touches that just werent there, like locking rings, he said they were good, but needed constant attention and it added time to their stops, and he said he had to send them back to get rebuilt.. they also couldnt handle the pounding of the rallying after 6 months so he went with a slightly more expensive set that he could rebuild himself.

The biggest issue with the DMS in the Excels is that for the last 3 years the Excel one-make series regulations have prohibited adjustable suspension. That mean the only option out of DMS was the 40mm casings with a different insert. The 40mm gear is MORE than enough for street cars, and sh!tes over the likes of Cusco/Tein/D2/G4 etc...

The other issue with the Excel DMS is that the Excels are some of the hardest driven rally cars in Australia, so that takes more of a pounding than usual which again puts more stress on what was already only designed for street/track use. Being a one make series, there's no excuse for people to be slow, and stock standard Excels on DMS regularly finish in the top 10 of state rounds against fields of 20 WRX/EVO's. The fact that a stock standard $4000 shopping trolley on $3000 DMS can knock off turbo charged AWD's worth 4 or 5 times more says more for the DMS that it does against it...

Next year the rules are changing allowing adjustable suspension, so the ability to go up the 50mm shocks will fix alot of the issues the Excels are having. Personally I'd had no issues with the DMS in our Excel this year after 8 events, and we're leading the QLD Series so we're not exactly backing off for the rough stuff...

But yep, in a street/track car, I've no hesitation in saying you won't have a problem quality wise.