Too bad we can't do a Stance GR + vs Swift/Koni shoot out. Same car same driver one track. Just dreaming here. Personally, I'd pick the Stance GR + if
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Too bad we can't do a Stance GR + vs Swift/Koni shoot out. Same car same driver one track. Just dreaming here.
Personally, I'd pick the Stance GR + if I had to choose between the two. OP don't fall for the belief that price/$$ is the end all. There are a few good coilover set ups that are in the sub 1k range and clearly far from crap and better than a spring shock combo. You asked between a spring and a coilover, go with coils. You did not mention your budget so the choice is wide right now. I was fine with springs until I discovered it's limits. Car looked great dropped and stanced out but was a challenge to drive in the twisties around the mountain.
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Cheap Monotube Coilovers are a compromise of A. Performance or B. Durability you cannot have both because of physics and I should note by cheap I mean every single monotube ever built that doesn't have a nitrogen charge port to be re-pressured. Since extremely few non-external res shocks have a charge port then you can expect that you basically need to get external resevoirs if you want to not be considered "Cheap". Anyways, to the physics! of Monotubes because of the very nature of the design a Monotube cannot perform good and be durable at the same time. To make a shock last on the street without being rebuilt every other year they have to add significant sealing pressure/surface to the free piston or they run the highest possible pressure when new so as they drop pressure the shock will actually get better. As you add this sealing you create friction and friction causes the piston to stick and that means your initial shock response is extremely poor. This makes for a bad ride quality (like Bilsteins HD's for example) and a major reduction in overall shock performance expecially on the street. This of course is all done so the shock will last longer but usually even doing this will only make the shock last at a decent level of performance for about 5 years before they start to drop off. The alternative being that you can get a good performing monotube with lower free piston friction that gives good ride and performance like most Motons/Ohlins/Penske type shocks but they don't last long before they start to drop in performance becuase that free piston will leak out its nitrogen quicker due to less sealing they tend to lose about 5psi a month or 100psi every 2 years. The pressure loss is reduced as pressure from the shock lowers since there is not as much pressure pushing against the sealing surface. When it does that on cheap shocks you have to rebuild them since you have no way to get nitrogen back to the other side of the free piston. On high end shocks you simply go to a nitrogen tank and re-fill them to the proper pressure (for awhile anyways but eventually you will have to rebuild due to nitrogen on oil side but you can do this yourself since they are built to be serviced). Now, also on most cheap coilovers (D2 and a few others excluded) lowering significant amounts can cause a massive reduction in performance simply because the shocks serial layout. This can cause major issues with valve piston to free piston distance and so the shock will not behave properly. Now on the D2's you can adjust the shock body so its not that big of a problem but on many other brands this isn't an option. So why do you even want Monotubes for the street performance? Monotubes better design and heat disipation? Well, they will not perform better then a twin tube if they have high stiction on the free piston or running completely the wrong shock pressure (overpressure) for the valving. Even if they don't Monotubes really don't do any better then a twin-tube unless they get hot and on the street your not stressing the shocks enough to build up heat very often if at all. So go with spring/shock combo for the street is my advice and enjoy not having to service your suspension for many years. Hell, just last year we had a on track incident that broke a front strut on our 944 race car. So we went back to the shop that night to find what we had on the shelf and a set of 1989 Koni Yellows (double adjustable) + Coil Conversion off a Turbo S M030 car with 150,000miles were our only option. A bit soft on compression but rebound seemed to be great. The car went back together in the morning and we ran it to a podium finish. That is 23 year old shocks with 150,000miles going to the podium (3rd). I can't think of any mono-tube that could even think of doing that. Last edited by Fishey; 08-21-2013 at 09:36 AM. |
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Not to mention the quality control of the cheap coilovers. A while back I found a shock dyno that someone had done of lower priced coilovers, and even on the same settings the shocks had completely different damping. The amount of adjustment you got with one click was completely different between each coilover as well. The other catch with cheap coilovers is the materials used. Good materials cost money, and this is where the Taiwanese companies cut their manufacturing costs. I'm not against coilovers in general, just the cheap ones. For actual performance, a set of good shocks and springs will do more for you than cheap coilovers. A set of KWs will be even better still, but you're looking at $2k. Most of this will be disregarded though, because people want to lower their cars more than springs will allow, completely ignoring how excessively lowering a car wrecks the suspension geometry.
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OP - let's simplify this and leave the science to the experts. Look at your budget, consider what you want to do with your car and balance with what you want for self gratification. If you want to be practical, get a coilover set up that's rebuildable. It should be the last suspension set up you'll buy. Like most, I started with springs and now going to c/o. This btw was predicted by Lou at Amplified Motorsport who did the install for me. He gave me fair warning. If I recall correctly, he gave me 1 yr and I'll move on. More like 10 months.
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Springs if you are on a budget, or only want set height set. Still track worthy if you pair it up with Koni shocks.
Coilovers if you want to drop to specific height or want track use.
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in the end if you want something fully adjustable and for strict track use I would only recommend a high end coilover.
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