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What's up forum. Just thought I would give you a review on these coilovers. I have had them for the past 6 years. I don't track my car since it was my daily driver, so it saw normal use. Minus the 15 mile moderate mountain road to my city. What I can tell you is these coilovers don't last more then two years without needing a rebuild. I don't know if this is common with coilovers since this was my first set. But I have sent them out twice already for rebuild.
That is the part# if your interested.
What they look like installed. I set the ride height to there recommendations and haven't experimented going any lower or higher.
This is what the ride height looks like after being installed. Even and maybe about a 1.5" drop in the front and a 1" drop in the rear. Hard to say how much since it was so long ago and I had that Ralliart sag swag going on.
This is the result of catching about a foot of air from the road compact being washed away after a heavy storm. Had the it replaced and rest of the coilovers got rebuilt while it was down two years ago. Anyways about to change over to either BC, D2, or KSport to see the reliability difference between manufacturers. Any suggestions from other members before I pull another gut feeling purchase?
Ask requested, a suggestion based on experience: if you do not track the car then it's definitely Swift springs with stock struts for best combo of handling, comfort and durability on real roads.
Can't tell you anything about stock suspension since my Ralliart didn't come with them. My car came with Megan Racing Street coilovers. They lasted to around 100,000 km without being rebuilt and were replaced since the shaft on one of the coilovers sheared off. The ride was decent when I used the car for the last 20k km. The Megans were replaced with BC Racing BR coilovers. You can go to my show and shine page to see the damage.
I have around 10k km with BC Racing coilovers now. The damping is much better than the Megans (to be expected since they are brand new). I attended autox with the BC Racing coilovers. The car cornered nice and flat but I was limited by tire grip (garbage all season tires).
I was under the impression that it is best to lower a car with coilovers since lowering a car with springs and stock struts causes premature wear. Hope this helps!
Ask requested, a suggestion based on experience: if you do not track the car then it's definitely Swift springs with stock struts for best combo of handling, comfort and durability on real roads.
Thank you for your suggestion but I rather stay with a coilover setup. I also heard that running lowering springs on stock struts has a horrible ride. I ran swifts with tokico blues on my Integra and hated it. I shortly swapped out to skunk2 pro coilovers because the shop recommend those with my needs. I only owned the car 6 months later before selling it. So I am taking that most coilovers don't last that long without having to be rebuilt.
Can't tell you anything about stock suspension since my Ralliart didn't come with them. My car came with Megan Racing Street coilovers. They lasted to around 100,000 km without being rebuilt and were replaced since the shaft on one of the coilovers sheared off. The ride was decent when I used the car for the last 20k km. The Megans were replaced with BC Racing BR coilovers. You can go to my show and shine page to see the damage.
I have around 10k km with BC Racing coilovers now. The damping is much better than the Megans (to be expected since they are brand new). I attended autox with the BC Racing coilovers. The car cornered nice and flat but I was limited by tire grip (garbage all season tires).
I was under the impression that it is best to lower a car with coilovers since lowering a car with springs and stock struts causes premature wear. Hope this helps!
How did you shear the shaft, I thought I was one in a million to bend it haha. Did you adjust differently for street use to auto x event? I was leaning towards the BC's because of the name. I have seen Ksport around in the Honda game but not really much else (out here anyways). D2, I have yet to see anyone with a set of those.
How did you shear the shaft, I thought I was one in a million to bend it haha. Did you adjust differently for street use to auto x event? I was leaning towards the BC's because of the name. I have seen Ksport around in the Honda game but not really much else (out here anyways). D2, I have yet to see anyone with a set of those.
I honestly have no idea how that happened, neither does the shop that I take my car to. They've never seen it happen before.
I didn't change the settings on the coilovers. I wanted to see what the limits were on the car with the new tires (so much understeer with my all seasons). If I recall correctly, I think my settings were 12-14 clicks from soft for the fronts and 16 clicks from soft for the rears.
The Speed Syndicate, a highly recommended shop in Vancouver, recommended BC Racing coilovers over the other brands that you mentioned.
I live about 30 minutes from the BC facility. The grassroots motorsports rallycross project focus SVT article gave these a good review, and I'm considering a set if I need to replace my stock struts.
