Hi, I'm looking into upgrading my coilovers on my Subaru gc8, the car is manly a fast road/ track day car and I am also going to be going to the nurburgring. I am currently running bc's but feel as these have been on the car a very long time that an upgrade is due.

what coilovers would people recommend? At the moment I am debating on whether to save up a little more, bite the bullet and go for the nitron r1 coilovers, has anyone had any first hand experience with them?

 

 

 

my car (hawk sti) has just had a full set of teins fitted and set up by chevron motorsport along with front and rear anti roll bars and it has totally transformed the car. its only a fast road car but I have so much confidence in it now.

 

A good coilover test for me is, the rebound return damping, I have a road near that has them rumble strips (about 6 of them very close to each other) entering or exiting a dangerous road.
That for me is a good test of how good suspension is and know it's going to be a good car at handling as if your wheels don't meet the ground quickly and smoothly then forget driving on B roads at full pace.

 

 

The reason I am looking into changing them is when I bought the car off a friend around 3years ago I know he bought the coilovers second hand with little information, so I know next to nothing about them plus in the past year the car has over gone some dramaic changes with power, handling braking from where it was and I feel the only weak point are the coilovers, which ever set I decide to go for the car will be setup by Simon at chevron who has already done a fair bit of work on my car and recommended that my car would benefit the most from a good set of dampers

 

Demon tweeks currently got Bilstein coilovers acroos the range on offer.

 

 

Does anyone or has anyone used bilstein b16 coilovers for mainly track?

 

i;ve just had tein flex z installed in my hawk and they are great for fast road.

 

MeisterR all the way........

 

I have had a set of BC ER series dampers on mine, they lasted about 5 years. Any worn damper will feel crap and a new one will feel better IMHO.

I now have a set of ZR fitted, and other than finding somewhere to attach the front left gas bottle, they feel amazing. With the springs stiffer than I had before they are just really smooth and compliant.

They came with 10/8 and I might have unofficially fittted 8/6, ahem, but most importantly, I ordered them +40mm longer. I should have asked for +60mm. The big difference to other coilovers or stock length ones is you can sit at O.E> ride height and benefit from the geometry advantages of not dropping the car and suffering with the roll centre issues.

I am currently on 5 clicks from full soft on the rebound and full off on high and low speed compression. I'm still experiementing and as they feel better on 8/6 than the first run with 6/5 I might go back to 10/8 just to see.

Very impressed, but they are pricey and nothing like the basic BC coil units.

 

AST, OHLINS or Bilsteins.
Do it properly, once.

 

if once ExeTc

 

Whiteline 3 way competition coilovers

 

 

Forgot them.

 

Happy to answer any questions that you have. Drop me a message.

https://www.scoobynet.com/trader-ann...tem-1-way.html

 

Can't believe nobody's mentioned KW's!

But yeah I agree on the GT1 with the warranty for life, tells something about the product and I was nearly going to buy some as B.A.D are big in the game. But ended up with KW Clubsports

 

I think the decision has been made and I am going to go with chevrons modified bilstein b16 coilovers with adjustable top mounts.

 

How much fitted?

 

how many zero's though? lol

The biggest thing is budget, £100. £2000, £3000