Rally Coilovers! Anyone?

**MR2** · 01-23-2011, 04:10 AM

well, it's official, the Teins are GOING, I went around a corner last night, hit a bump and BOING the car was lifted of the road and lost traction for long enough for the car to end up in the gravel ~half a foot from the guard rail (armco) before I managed to pull it back...I was ONLY saved by the fact that it was an S bend and managed to nurse it around the initial curve.

**2fnloud** · 01-23-2011, 09:03 AM

what about these KSports?

**GTOJOE** · 01-23-2011, 06:15 PM

Not legal in Australia cus the lower mounting section is not fixed. Ie it can be adjusted. Stupid rule really. As far as we know the only road legal coilovers in this country are Tein. But there are so many imports around riding on coilovers so I don't think the cops now what's legal or not or they just don't care.

**MR2** · 01-23-2011, 08:15 PM

I've given up worrying about the legality at this stage, apparently pedders do rally coil overs so when I'm next feeling flush I'll be talking to them.

**HLxDrummer** · 01-25-2011, 06:33 PM

How about throwing on some springs/stock struts with aftermarket sways?

**MR2** · 01-27-2011, 05:14 PM

Hmmm, not sure dude...going to talk to some experts and see where we get...some sort of cruising and bashing switch would be nice

**GTOJOE** · 01-27-2011, 05:45 PM

ECS? my last car [Mazda MX-6 GT Turbo] had ECS [or whatever Mazda called it] and it was great. Just left it on "sport" the whole time except over speed bumps and in car parks. It made a noticable difference. On sport over a speed bump it would be quite harsh then on "soft" it would just float over without any harshness. The ECS on the GTO is disabled. Has been since I got the car.

**MR2** · 02-26-2011, 01:54 AM

on another project I'm working on to fit wider tyres, I swaped the rear 6kg coils to the front to replace the front's 12kg coils...

and here is the 6kg springs from the rear set of shocks:

They are actually coiled 4mm thinner...does not make them fit on the front shocks so well...showing stock front vs rear coil:

and this shot shows the TOTAL travel compressing that the teins have...pretty shit...I'd say somewhere around 2-3" maximum (once you talk droop + the top hat that sits over the shaft...)

what it looks like on

and showing that the 6kg coil can not hold the front of the car's weight at ALL and as such the car just sits on the bump stops (1-1.5" down the full shock travel)

Fucking YAY.

Soo definitly need to get some rally shocks...4-6inch of travel is a MINIMUM that I'd expect for any road car.