help me choose tein or stance
Bilstein PSS9 = among the nicest street oriented coilovers you can buy, and no where near the $2000 mark. Nothing but positive reviews. Flex leave alot to be desired, especially for a street oriented car. Given your uses and the roads you guys have in MN (I've been there!), they would be a terrific setup too. We could easily sell you the Flex too, but between the 2 there really is no comparison. I have no experience with Stance on the Evo platform
I currently have the Tein Flex's on my car and love them. I had a local performance shop install them and they ride nicer than stock, they take the bumps and imperfections in the road much better. Today I started messing with the dampening and realized that the setting they put them at was just a tad above the softest setting. I cranked it up to the hardest it would go in the front and it was damn hard, actually so hard that i felt each little bump while backing out of my driveway at 2 mph. It was actually quite annoying. So now I have it set just in the middle which rides just like stock. Needless to say even at the soft setting it rides like an MR with Bilstein's and handles even better. While taking corners the body roll is drastically reduced and understeer is almost completely gone.
My only complain with going the coilover route is having to deal with the coilover noise, they do not sound like stock and they are not quiet by any means. other than that I am very ahppy and you don't have to deal with the f%^&ded up stances that spring give you (aka the muscle car stance with the higher rear and lower front) That stance alone will make you car handles like absolute crap.
My only complain with going the coilover route is having to deal with the coilover noise, they do not sound like stock and they are not quiet by any means. other than that I am very ahppy and you don't have to deal with the f%^&ded up stances that spring give you (aka the muscle car stance with the higher rear and lower front) That stance alone will make you car handles like absolute crap.
I used to have Tein RAs, which are better than the Tein Flex, and found them to be very harsh. And if you turned down the valving they just got bouncy and harsh. From what I've seen, Stance is working hard to develop good setups for the Evo market and DTM has had good luck with them. So, between those two, I think I'd go for the Stance.
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The stance units appear to be heavy duty and inverted in design. However there is very little info posted about them from grip racers. Drift racers love the stuff but I prefer to purchase suspension to get stuck and not unstuck. I like that they use 10k/10k spring combination as I feel that is about a stiff as one should go in a daily driver. This is especially true if your significant other may hop in from time to time.
The Teins have been around for a very long time and have a decent rep but most people riding on the flex system say its a bit too firm for their liking. Tolerable but stiffer than they had expected. The word on the street is that the price is a bit high for what you get. Not saying they suck just that the additional cost over other sub $1000 coil overs doesn't really buy you anything except a name.
If it were me I would risk the lack of reviews and pick up the stance coil overs. They are about $400 cheaper and appear to have a superior design.
The Teins have been around for a very long time and have a decent rep but most people riding on the flex system say its a bit too firm for their liking. Tolerable but stiffer than they had expected. The word on the street is that the price is a bit high for what you get. Not saying they suck just that the additional cost over other sub $1000 coil overs doesn't really buy you anything except a name.
If it were me I would risk the lack of reviews and pick up the stance coil overs. They are about $400 cheaper and appear to have a superior design.
Yeah I would never buy the Flex's new unless you got a killer dealer on them. I purchased mine for $750 with 1500 miles on them and I can't go wrong at all. Megan makes coilovers for the Evo but i would stay away since I have heard they clunk ALOT on the rear. Coilovers will makes noise but not excessive loud clunking and banging. I f you can find Tein's for cheap with low miles then I say go for it. If not buy the Stance's new. 
Bilstein PSS9 = among the nicest street oriented coilovers you can buy, and no where near the $2000 mark. Nothing but positive reviews. Flex leave alot to be desired, especially for a street oriented car. Given your uses and the roads you guys have in MN (I've been there!), they would be a terrific setup too. We could easily sell you the Flex too, but between the 2 there really is no comparison. I have no experience with Stance on the Evo platform
tein monoflex
I have the tein monoflex. Very pleased with them. On the softest settings they are very close to stock in terms of comfort but handle way better, Body roll has decreased tremendously. On the stiffest settings they are even more responsive. I read a lot of bad reviews on Teins but I'm extemely happy with them.
We have a package that was designed with Stance/DTM. Give me a call or pm me for details. The units can be sprung and valved to your individual needs for half the price of others in the market.
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