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i have 550# springs in my coilovers and it isnt anything horrible, i have been driving it every day for a week back and forth to the shop... i also have a proper alignment and ride height set up after the parts were installed though.
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yeah, i had 680lb springs on my rsx-s and it was stiff but not unbearable, I drove it over 20k miles that way, never had a problem, nothing ever broke, and after maybe the first 2-300 of which, even my (ex) g-f said she hardly noticed the difference... plz don't think we're trying to accuse you, but it does sound like installer/user error?
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#1 I bought the car like this and have only driven it 200 miles. 2 once you get over about 300 lbs on springs the car is going to porpoise, if you don,t believe me ask TonyG his does as well. Trust me I know all about dual purpose street/track cars and what they ride like. I have simply posted an observation and will see what it takes to make this liveable. The p/o simply had it dropped too far and I just wanted to vent. Btw I have a set of 250lb springs for a turbo car lowers the car about an inch and if anyone's interested a set of 400 lb coil over springs as I'm going to drop the rate to 3-325.
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I think your problem is:
The konis are WAY underdamped for your springs, alignment is off, shocks are dead.
Or a combination of the above, except I'm positive of the konis being less than ideal unless they've been reworked.
Ahmet
The konis are WAY underdamped for your springs, alignment is off, shocks are dead.
Or a combination of the above, except I'm positive of the konis being less than ideal unless they've been reworked.
Ahmet
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koni's are good the p/o sent receipts as far as being under damped yeah no doubt that's why in my first post I said I was going to move to bilsteins. koni's are a good shock but until you have a set of properly valved bilsteins vs properly valved koni's I'll take bilsteins everyday. I don't know if I even want to bother re-valving these. The alignn. is def. suspect as well, i'll post feedback later in the week after I raise the ride height and re-align.