Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

So I gather that when you say coilover you are wanting something adjustable because thats supposedly the good stuff right?

just get a decent shock and good spec springs and you have your coilover, if you dont have huge amounts to spend look for decent brands in good secondhand condition, but just keep in mind that just because a mate has 'awesome' adjustable coilovers that are all shiny doesnt mean he will have the right spring spec or have them on the right damper/height settings for the car... most times they dont...

adjustable doesnt always mean good... they may be great for track or racing, but for street with no DIY alignment system and no real suspension setup experience its just not practical... see what what the people in the motorsport section are running and why.

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/328805-your-thoughts/#findComment-5349015
Share on other sites

my thoughts:

u dont even need 2 levels of adjustment when they are as shit as most cheap coilovers, there is usually maybe 1 or 2 adjustments with half decent curves, and u have to find them on a shock dyno. people think because they can "feel the difference" when changing the damper adjustments, that they are doing their job. straight up wrong, ur not tuning the performance, ur tuning the ride comfort in most cases.

waste of money, and less performance. thank god for dumb people, otherwise companies would actually have to put more thought into marketing than painting them some pretty colours and putting some knobs on them to play with to sell them.

a lot of damper adjustment is handy when the adjustment is good for teams who have the resources to test and tune properly, but even then it's only handy when the damper adjustment is actually good, basically until you get to around high end koni's level, the damper adjustment is just about useless, even to race engineers let a lone newbies.

it's pure marketing and wank factor.

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/328805-your-thoughts/#findComment-5349054
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • My thinking is that if the O2 sensor is shot then your entire above described experience is pure placebo.
    • Here is the mess that I made. That filler there was successful in filling dents in that area. But in the middle area. I can feel dents. And I've gone ocer it multiple times with filler. And the filler is no longer there because i accidently sanded it away. I've chased my tail on this job but this is something else lol. So I'm gonna attempt filler one more time and if it doesn't work I'll just high fill primer the door and see where the issues are because guidecoat is of no use atm.
    • Ok, so I think I sort of figured out where I went wrong. So I definitely overthinked it, and I over sanded, which is probably a large part of the problem. to fix it, I ended up tapping some spots that were likely to be high, made them low, filled them in, and I tackled small sections at a time, and it feels a lot better.    I think what confused me as well is you have the bare metal, and some spots darker and some are lighter, and when I run my finger across it, it' would feel like it's a low spot, but I think it's just a transition in different texture from metal to body filler.    When your finger's sliding on the body filler, and crosses over to the bare metal, going back and forth, it feels like it's a low spot. So I kept putting filler there and sanding, but I think it was just a transition in texture, nothing to do with the low or high spot. But the panel's feels a lot better, and I'm just going to end up priming it, and then I'll block it after with guide coat.   Ended up wasting just about all of my filler on this damn door lol  
    • -10 is plenty for running to an oil cooler. When you look at oil feeds, like power steering feeds, they're much smaller, and then just a larger hose size to move volume in less pressure. No need for -12. Even on the race cars, like Duncans, and endurance cars, most of them are all running -10 and everything works perfectly fine, temps are under control, and there's no restrictions.
    • Update: O2 sensor in my downpipe turned out to be faulty when I plugged in to the Haltech software. Was getting a "open circuit" warning. Tons of carbon buildup on it, probably from when I was running rich for a while before getting it corrected. Replaced with new unit and test drove again. The shuffle still happens, albeit far less now. I am not able to replicate it as reliably and it no longer happens at the same RPM levels as before. The only time I was able to hear it was in 5th going uphill and another time in 5th where there was no noticeable incline but applying more throttle first sped it up and then cleared it. Then once in 4th when I slightly lifted the throttle going over a bump but cleared right after. My understanding is that with the O2 sensor out, the ECU relies entirely on the MAP tune and isn't able to make its small adjustments based on the sensors reading. All in all, a big improvement, though not the silver bullet. Will try validating the actuators are set up correctly, and potentially setting up shop time to tune the boost controller on closed loop rather than the open loop it is set to now. Think if it's set up on closed loop to take the O2 reading, that should deal with these last bits. Will try to update again as I go. 
×
×
  • Create New...