View Poll Results: which would you go with for daily driver?
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Strange
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Afco
0
0%
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2
15.38%
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which coilover is best for a DD
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which coilover is best for a DD
im looking into getting a coilover setup for my 1995 Camaro Z28 6-speed. my shocks are done for so im looking to replace with coilover setup. I have read many post/ discussions on QA1, Strange, Afco, Edelrock, etc. I'm just looking for opinions on which would be good for a daily driver, i dont mind a stiffer ride as I once had coilovers on my nissan maxima which was my daily driver and I loved it. It hugged the road like crazy, I was able to take sharp turns without body roll, etc.
Im looking for adjustablility to lower the car height, and corner carving mainly
whats the pros & cons? rebuildable? warranty?
So what do you guys think, what would you go with?
why would you pick one over another? differences?
Thanks
Im looking for adjustablility to lower the car height, and corner carving mainly
whats the pros & cons? rebuildable? warranty?
So what do you guys think, what would you go with?
why would you pick one over another? differences?
Thanks
Last edited by 6spdchevy; 09-13-2010 at 11:30 AM.
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im looking into getting a coilover setup for my 1995 Camaro Z28 6-speed. my shocks are done for so im looking to replace with coilover setup. I have read many post/ discussions on QA1, Strange, Afco, Edelrock, etc. I'm just looking for opinions on which would be good for a daily driver, i dont mind a stiffer ride as I once had coilovers on my nissan maxima which was my daily driver and I loved it. It hugged the road like crazy, I was able to take sharp turns without body roll, etc.
Im looking for adjustablility to lower the car height, and corner carving mainly
whats the pros & cons? rebuildable? warranty?
So what do you guys think, what would you go with?
why would you pick one over another? differences?
Thanks
Im looking for adjustablility to lower the car height, and corner carving mainly
whats the pros & cons? rebuildable? warranty?
So what do you guys think, what would you go with?
why would you pick one over another? differences?
Thanks
If you are really dead set on adjustable coilovers (for the front atleast) you could always do the ground control kit with a custom spring on konis. You could also look into penskies or race bilstiens.
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yea man that price tag is what is holding me. but im about 99.9% on going with koni sa just looking for something to compensate my expenses
yea im go koni/strano just dont know when. I know I need them asap cuz my shocks are shot & its annoying to drive it bouncing everywhere.
yea im go koni/strano just dont know when. I know I need them asap cuz my shocks are shot & its annoying to drive it bouncing everywhere.
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Not if you want to retain Koni's lifetime warranty.
I'm not sure if nice is a word I'd be willing to use - it works, but my experience was that they were hard to adjust, were just as heavy as a fixed perch spring/shock setup, and that's just the fronts. The rears...well, I don't have a favorable opinion of how they did that either. It worked, but I never liked how the loads on the rear adjustable perches weren't confined to the axial direction.
Why does Sam push them? Because they work, and they work well. The price isn't unreasonable for what you get, but some tend to disagree (but there are plenty of people on this board that wouldn't know a good value if it came up and slapped them in the face).
For me, I had the Ground Control adjustable setup on Bilsteins, and ditched them in favor of Konis with Sam's springs. The ride is a bit more harsh now due to an increase in spring rates front and rear, but aren't hateful, and the shocks are a night and day difference.
Honestly, I found the adjustability of the Ground Control setup to not be very useful at all...I set them once, and left them there. I tried adjusting them a little here and there to level the car out, and that's when I realized how much of a pain in the *** adjusting them was.
I was drawn to them originally because I thought it would be awesome to be able to slam the car to the ground if I wanted, and raise it back up so I wouldn't scrape during daily driving - in reality, the adjustment is cumbersome, time consuming, and just plain shitty to do on a regular basis. For me, they weren't worth it...people tend to love adjustable suspension parts, but I tend to view it as just one more thing to screw up.
For me, I had the Ground Control adjustable setup on Bilsteins, and ditched them in favor of Konis with Sam's springs. The ride is a bit more harsh now due to an increase in spring rates front and rear, but aren't hateful, and the shocks are a night and day difference.
Honestly, I found the adjustability of the Ground Control setup to not be very useful at all...I set them once, and left them there. I tried adjusting them a little here and there to level the car out, and that's when I realized how much of a pain in the *** adjusting them was.
I was drawn to them originally because I thought it would be awesome to be able to slam the car to the ground if I wanted, and raise it back up so I wouldn't scrape during daily driving - in reality, the adjustment is cumbersome, time consuming, and just plain shitty to do on a regular basis. For me, they weren't worth it...people tend to love adjustable suspension parts, but I tend to view it as just one more thing to screw up.
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