Improving Handling for summer slaloms... and for the fun of driving
#11
RE: Improving Handling for summer slaloms... and for the fun of driving
ORIGINAL: ALX
Nothing too drastic like some people think (Lower the better) but just a little bit to lower your center of gravity and also to stiffen up the spring rates, ie; lowering springs have stiffer spring rates to keep from bottoming out.
Nothing too drastic like some people think (Lower the better) but just a little bit to lower your center of gravity and also to stiffen up the spring rates, ie; lowering springs have stiffer spring rates to keep from bottoming out.
#14
RE: Improving Handling for summer slaloms... and for the fun of driving
yeah I'm wanna do what Super Mario is doing, get the stiffness with any or much lowering. Since I live in Canada I get 30 cm snow falls at once a couple times during the season so I want to eliminate the plow effect that i'll be doing with a lowered ride.
EDIT: I saw those DropZone adjustable coilovers... it seems they do it all for 250$ US!
EDIT: I saw those DropZone adjustable coilovers... it seems they do it all for 250$ US!
#15
RE: Improving Handling for summer slaloms... and for the fun of driving
If you add a rear swaybar it will eliminate understeer, also if your rear spring rates are higher than the front it will help as well. Some people who autocross use drop springs up front and even the cheap coilover in back to achieve a really stiff rear end to help in cornering but since you want a stiff suspension all around and you don't want to drop it too much or any, then go with coilovers.
If you go with coilovers at least get a good brand name, either Skunk2s, Ground Control which uses Eibach springs, or Dropzone. Since you're adding a really stiff spring to your suspension, thus making it more bouncy, you HAVE TO add stiffer shocks as well to prevent the bounciness. If you can afford adjustable go for it but either Tokico blues or Koni shocks (Yellow) will do the same thing.
Remember to think of ride quality as well. If you're tempted to buy the $35 coilover set off ebay, remember that there is absolutely no R&D done on those coils and they are stiff as a board. You would need a super stiff shock to make those work decently and then your ride would feel like driving a shopping cart!
If you go with coilovers at least get a good brand name, either Skunk2s, Ground Control which uses Eibach springs, or Dropzone. Since you're adding a really stiff spring to your suspension, thus making it more bouncy, you HAVE TO add stiffer shocks as well to prevent the bounciness. If you can afford adjustable go for it but either Tokico blues or Koni shocks (Yellow) will do the same thing.
Remember to think of ride quality as well. If you're tempted to buy the $35 coilover set off ebay, remember that there is absolutely no R&D done on those coils and they are stiff as a board. You would need a super stiff shock to make those work decently and then your ride would feel like driving a shopping cart!
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