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Originally Posted by shabarivas
Honestly unless you are a track nut coils are kind of overkill... seriously - your car will never drive as well as it did stock unless you spend a LOT of time fine tuning it to your driving. How I like to think of these things is:
1. Drive it stock figure out what needs to change
2. Adjust most of your oversteer / understeer tendencies w/ some sways that are ratio'd between the front and back appropriately
3. Once you get used to how 1 and 2 feel - if you still need more very specific fine tuning - go for the coils.
Sounds like you are in it more for the looks - honestly i would save my money and get a pair of really good lowering springs and whatever else you need to fix your alignment etc. Coils will be a pain unless you know exactly what you want and can do it yourself as well...
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thanks for your input. i guess you are right, i am in it for the looks and i'm kind of just trying to think of it from a money perspective too. i'd rather spend the money for installation of a set of coilovers (which will cost me like 300 at least) than spend that on springs, and then have to deal with it all again in a year and a half when my dampers go. i've just noticed this cycle with lot of people. they get springs, they have them installed, run them for a while, don't like the ride or the height etc, then they go and end up getting coilovers. You are definitely right, coilovers, for what they are, are defiinitely overkill for my purposes. But i'm a very 'in for a dime, in for a dollar' type of person. and i could follow that same logic and say 'screw it i need the best coilovers there are' but i wouldn't derrive any additional benefit from that, which is why i've settled on getting an entry level coilover. and based on what i have been reading, the biggest advantage of higher end coilovers is their adjustability. separate compression/rebound settings etc, and you are right, i don't have any idea what i'm doing with suspension, but i just like the idea of being able to dial in my ride height and damper settings (even if i have to pay someone to make hte adjustments) then be stuck with however the springs i turn out. plus, i like the idea that the spring i am using is designed for the damper i am using.
it may be a bit of a stretch, but its kind of like paying to have your car repainted 'blue' but you don't get to pick the shade, and by the time you see what shade of blue it is, you've already paid for the paint job. If you paid a shop to paint your car 'bluie' and you were picturing the 'daytona blue' from the 350z, and you wound up with 'monterey blue' from the 370z, you'd probably be a little frustrated.
sorry for the long post, but in short: i'd rather have to make a bunch of adjustments to my coilovers to get what i want, then be stuck with however the springs wind up turning out. i'm sure that most people that get springs are happy with them, but i see too many threads with people unhappy with the height or the ride quality. If i am unhappy with the ride quality, i want to be able to change it (which i can do with coils), not juts have to convince myself its better than stock and deal with it.
you seem to have a lot of insight in this, so do you have any opinions on coilovers in the price range i'm looking at?