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Old Nov 22, 2014, 11:01 PM
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Best coilovers for street and drag?
So I'm looking for a set of coilovers for my Evo 9. I don't daily drive the car as it is quite modded. Pretty much used for your usual weekend street car (highway pulls, few launches here and there, light to light runs). Probably won't see much drag time but I do plan on getting into a few events this upcoming season.

*Deciding between fortune autos, d2's and tein street flex at this point. Any more opinions??
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Old Nov 23, 2014, 08:12 AM
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You can only be setup for one and setup for another you can't have both I could say really any well known adjustible coil overs as for springs rates that's for you to figure out -Results vary.
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Call Terry at Fortune Auto & have them build you a set. Search the threads here on EVOM & you will see how popular they are

http://www.fortune-auto.com/


They are popular for a good reason
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Originally Posted by MinusPrevious
Call Terry at Fortune Auto & have them build you a set. Search the threads here on EVOM & you will see how popular they are

http://www.fortune-auto.com/


They are popular for a good reason
Cosign.
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Originally Posted by ChicagoEvo9
usual weekend road racing (highway pulls, few launches here and there, light to light runs).
I don't think we have the same definition of road racing...
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Originally Posted by Raptord
I don't think we have the same definition of road racing...
Is it possible he meant street racing Well, we frown on that here jk
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Lol I did mean street racing. I'll rephrase, good coilovers for some minor to moderate drag but mostly used for street racing.
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Call FA. Make sure you talk w/Terry & tell him what you want to do w/these C/o's

They custom build all their C/o's based on your requirements

Make sure you tell him youre not a street racer
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Oh boy...here's my advice- no coilovers are good for street racing. Now go sell your evo
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Originally Posted by MinusPrevious
Call FA. Make sure you talk w/Terry & tell him what you want to do w/these C/o's

They custom build all their C/o's based on your requirements

Make sure you tell him youre not a street racer
Will do haha!

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Oh boy...here's my advice- no coilovers are good for street racing. Now go sell your evo
Okay. It's for sale.
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Originally Posted by heel2toe
Oh boy...here's my advice- no coilovers are good for street racing. Now go sell your evo
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Penske's or Motons or GTFO.
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Im a happy FA cutomer. also have a few friends with FA that are happy with their FA also. just make sure you don't get the counterfeit ones.

http://www.fortune-auto.com/counterfeitalert.htm
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So going away from everyones opinion, I might go with d2's..

Theres a whole bunch of diff types of d2's out there but Ive been told to go with AWD's version.. Anybody have their .02 they can drop in?
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Not to sound like a dick but no one that actually cars about the performance of their evo in this forum has D2's.

Maybe there is 1 or 2.

Was cost your final determining factor? I can't see it being anything else since D2's are so far below what normally considered even a cheap set of coilovers. Otherwise BC or FA's would've made more sense.

Just wondering
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