Hello everybody,
I think it is about time to upgrade my suspension parts as I got more seat time at the track and hopefully will reach the limit of the car with next two events and my car is pretty high for what it should be thanks to 255/40 295/35 tires on 19 wheels
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Currently the car has only Whiteline front and rear swaybars. They worked pretty well to reduce body roll, but I want more, Also I want to reduce the center of gravity slightly, at least reduce the gained 7mm in height, and to be able to have better alignment setting.
So my buy list for suspension is as follow:
- SPL Front Camber Arm
- SPL Rear Camber Link
- SPL Rear Traction Link
- SPL Lockout kit
- SPL Adjustment Wrench
aaaaaand coilovers.
Pretty sure of SPL parts, but I would like to know if I need any other parts from their lineup, or I covered the necessary parts and more.
Next thing, the famous coilover question
which is better.
I was pretty sure that I will go for Tein coilover coupled with their EDFC Active pro, however, looking at the race track that I participate at and the initial setup for the device and install costs, I preferred to invest the money on a better quality coilovers.
So, the Z currently is serving as a weekend car and a track warrior for my pleasure. The setup I want is Street\Track oriented but more biased toward track, I would prefer to retain stock height or near stock height as streets here is not very low car friendly. I shortlisted some coilovers depending on recommendation, price, brand name from cheaper to most expensive, and beware that I can get JDM parts cheaper as I am in Asia (Middle east exactly) and shipping prices will be a lot cheaper.
- Tein Monosport (still an option without edfc if it's a great set, would the rates be too high for an aero-less car? 14k front 12k rear)
- KW V3 - most popular here
- Bilstein PSS9/10 - Great quality and like the one on my srt, maybe different model
- Zeal Function X (Soft 10k F & R or Hard 12k F & R) can get it for around USD 1800 and pretty reputable company in Japan - but not sure of the drop range
and another option has been viable is to have a custom set by MCA, mostly X or red series as my original plan was going to cost over USD 2,200.
These what I believe the best options I can find under USD 2500
Researching through forum and google just made me more lost, KW - Bilstein pretty good quality with good prices (cheaper of the rest except tein) but they are more biased toward street as is, Tein is very popular here locally, I didn't find a signle negative review on Zeals but no z34 platform review, lastely, I found mca suggestion here first, searched on web, and got a lot of positive reviews.
I want to make one time investment, and some thing time will prove that I made the right choice.
Appreciate your inputs