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Which brand would you recommend ?  

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this ones easy .. ohlins .. if u can find them :) .. if not then go for bilsteins or konis as they are much easier to find ... also go for them if u prefer a softer suspension cause japs are hard as!! ;) thats just my opinion :D

whiteline has a new series of coil overs for sale now, i think the R33 coils are almost out.

it looks like they are trying to provide features from more expensive damper sets in a reasonable package.

from memory, it uses 40mm shock, height and damper adjustable from the top, so u only need to open the bonnet etc to adjust, and they say that you dont need to do regular services. also the shock is inverted.

retails for $3000

Its true most jap brand coilovers are way too hard for our inferior aussie roads, ive fitted bilsteins some 15mths ago and can only speak to highly of them.They can be revalved and maintained in nearly all states that i know of and quite reasonably priced in purchase and maintenance.The other big advantage that bilstein, koni, and ohlins have over the japenese brand name is that most of these have had thorough testing done on them in aust for aussie conditions and as such are deemed legal,where as the jap ones havent been tested or adr. approved!!!

Regards,

SKYLINE....

Hi HKSgtst, Bilsteins have adjustable (via circlip) lower spring seats so you can have it whatever height you like. Tip, I always have extra grooves cut in the shock body to accommodate a wider range of heights.

I would use Whiteline springs rather than Kings. It has been my experience that, since Kings only make springs, they try and do everything with the spring rate and this results in some excessive rates and rate transition. Whiteline also make stabilsier bars and alignment products so they don't try and make a spring do stuff that it is not intended to do.

Hope that helps

Hi GTRman1992, don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with the Kings product itself. We use Kings springs in some of our race cars. But I specify the springs rates, to suit the tyres, the stabiliser bar rates, the damper rates, the circuit, whether the circuit is wet, dry or slippery etc etc.

When they do an off the shelf road car spring, they don't know if you have done any of this to your car. So how do they know what spring rate to give you? They guess, they have a philosophy they follow.

It has been my experience that they assume you are not upgrading the stabiliser bars and therefore specify a higher a spring rate than someone else who assumes you will (or have) upgraded the stabiliser bars. Kings don't make stabiliser bars, in fact if you ring them up and ask them, they will tell you that their springs are designed so that you don't need a stabiliser bar upgrade.

This is of course nonsense, a spring and a stabiliser bar don't do the same job. The spring’s primary job is to hold the car up and a stabiliser bar’s primary job is to control roll by linking wheels on the same axle. If you try and control roll only using springs, you will have too high a spring rate. The handling and ride will both suffer.

So I use a company that has a philosophy of complete and complimentary suspension components. At the moment that is Whiteline, they also make stabiliser bars and have a large range of alignment products, body braces, shocks etc. So their philosophy is not one of "springs are everything". A handling package is an integrated group of components that will always make a car handle and ride better than one single component trying to do it all.

Bottom line, it's not the quality of the product itself, it is all about what the designer had in mind when he specified the product.

Hope that helps

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