stop trying to sound smart, coils are more then normal springs and shocks because of the massive amounts customization and adjustments you can make.
BUT- a spring is a spring. 5", 3", 60mm, torsion bar, leaf, it's a spring. Buy a cheap 2" spring,
be sad and saggy. Buy a good quality 2" spring, be happy.
Buy a cheap 5" spring, be saggy and sad, buy a good quality 5" spring, be happy.
Buy a rate that's good for your purpose, be happy. Try to go too low and soft, be very sad.
Try to go too stiff, be sad. Ad nauseum.
And hell, you can add adjustable perches to the stock
springs, if you like the rate. Or your H&R's, or some stock car springs, or...
This is especially true in the rear if you are NOT going to coil-over-spring arrangement,
as there is not much extra room for springs, stock, and lowering it makes it worse.
Dampers are dampers. A cheap damper doesn't usually really work. An expensive damper may work
WORSE, if it's totally inappropriate for the purpose.
It doesn't matter much how the spring is or is not wrapped around it.
In front, the coil IS already wrapped around it, stock.
So money for a good damper IS well spent- if it's spent on something that is designed
for the purpose that the car's going to be used for.
Yes, you are opening a potentially huge can of worms by redesigning elements of your suspension,
and that can IS bigger when you cnange to a 2.5" spring. And unless there is some need
for increased front camber (like you're tracking the car) there's no real imperative to go to
a small front spring.
Crap, I'd bet 3/4ths of the people who do/have done weld- on adjusters
for the rear are taking camber OUT for the street! That's fine, but it's not driving a
'maximum grip in the corners' car.
So yes, I stand by it- there is nothing special about a 'coilover', even if you're ditching the
stock rear spring perches to go to a true coil-over-shock in the rear.
You get more options, in the end you (paradoxically) may save money as you dial the
car in, but that's really it.
If "dumb people" think that a $300 kit from China that they buy on ePay is going to work
like a $7500 kit with good springs, adjustable perches, top mounts and 4- way adjustable dampers from Ohlins...
well...
hell...
for stancing on the street at 35mph, it may not matter.
But it probably won't result in a car that'll lap fast and repeatably.
This IS the track forum, right?
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