Alrite this is gonna be a bad post eveyrone is gonna go off and its gonna get locked but its worth a try because i dont know much about suspension.

I know there are two types of spring yea.. the japanese way stiff front softer rear and make it rotate by camber caster and all those setting and the american way of fwd stiffer in the rear.

My question to you guys is for the people that have tried both something along the same rate as the omnipower coilovers vs. a ground control at 400fr (500-600)rear. My question is to those that have tried both setups: How is the ride quality for a daily driver is it pullable? and which route did you perfer the american or japanese way or the spring rate?

This is on a daily driver im hearing that the ground control can get harsh because the spring are linear and not progressive?? if there revalved there still harsh sorry im a newb to suspension? if i was planning on going to buttonwillow and do autocrosses and wut not what would you advice me to get. i never posted on road race forum i know u guys are a little too elite for me maybe and this may sound retarded but flame away if u want i got the suit on. o the car is an integra gs-r i do everytype of driving drag racign autocrossing hopefully start road racing but got no money and the car isnt setup correctly brake and suspension and tire wise (its wut i want to do but drag racing is cheaper i tried it ended up beign funner than i thought)

note. i also have koni yellow sitting around but they need revalving. so basically if money wasnt a concern. what would you choose? and try to say why? man this thread went all over the place ill try to clean it up later. i gotta go do some school stuff.

 

The rear spring rate is going to effect your ride quality more then the front spring rate.

For future reference,

 

omnipower uses linear rates too...almost every coilover/coilover sleeve uses linear springs

why do u need your konis revalved?

 

back in my ricer days i had a 4dr eg civic on apc coilover mad slizaamed yo. the days where u buy parts without reseraching i researched after i got my APC coilovers yea.. and decided shitty spring with best shocks out their shoould = decent ride quality. so i get koni yellows.

my parents towed the car one day with the front of the car up in the air but the back end on the floor. the car was basically sitting on the floor muffler was pretty close to the floor the bastard was taking speed bumps pretty fast and was driving fast.

you can blame install error but apparently the bumpstop moved up went above the thicker portion of the valve. i dont remeber but either the washer wasnt put on or the bumpstop was cut to short and somethign happened this was like 3-4 years ago. but this is what happened its hard to see so ill try to give you a picture imagine a shock outside of a car and you put on elephant on top of it fully compress the valve to the point where the thicker part is stuck on the bottom of the shock. basically two rear shocks mad fuxored.

you might say y didnt u claim on towing company. i didnt really realize it was f'd because i had to get the car fixed and i was doing it myself by the time i moved the car around i was like wtf.

the car was mad slammed and real shitty spring the car still didn't feel right at all with koni yellows it still bounced and everything im almost positive it deserve a revalve as for the rears im not sure if its still possible to fix it because of the shock body all messed up. it tried to contact koni about hte lifetime they would probably claim me on install error. isnt there a guy here name crxlee dealing with koni warranty if i gave you a pic can you tell me how much it would cost to fix/revalve it?

 

i think its really easy

ground control- with yellows

you have THE TOP people in the industry manufacturing your parts. EIbach and koni are at the top of each of there respected business. plus your limitlessness (is that a word) of the setup

omnipower-

you have no clue who makes ANY part on them. and there not adjustable.


if you don't think the decision is cut and dry after that then, i give up.

 

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This is why I'm locking it and not moving it elsewhere.

You knew the post doesnt belong here - whats the point? This forum is not a catch-all for 'I need to slam my daily driver y0' questions.

I just dont get it.