Okay, well I have just bought the car a few months ago and it is in serious need of some suspension. It has kby gr-2's that are more than likely blow due to the $40 nopi coilovers on the car. I have pretty much already decided on what I I am going to get but I do not know about the spring rates, which to get. The goal for the car is to be a FUN car. I dont want some donky spring rate for racing. This is a every day driven car. I plan on building it so that I can take it to the drag strip, auto-x, and road course and it perform well. I dont care about being the fastest I just want to have fun. So I have decided on omnipower coilovers with lca's (they are p1mp) and CTR front and rear sway bars. Now I am assuming that the CTR sway bars are larger than the stock SI sway bars? That is pretty much the extent of my suspension mods. I am going to put pistons and rods in the motor and put a little turbo like a gt28RS or something that is going to spool very fast and ber very fun around town and enough linear power and will do well at the track,strip, auto-x. Now that I have explained about the power that I am looking for and the setup of the car that should help you help me with the spring rates. I dont want the car to rotate too much, I want it to be somewhat neutral, or maybe a little rotation but nothing fierce. I used to own an EG hatch with koni yellows and GC coilovers with 500lbs springs front and rear and that car was a bitch in the rain and I wasnt ever REALLY comforatable with it, it also had a welded in 4pt roll bar. Thanks for the help.

BTW this will be a full bodied, full weight car so judge rates around that too.

 

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I'd recommend koni/GC with OTS rates

 

try something like 400f/ 350r for spring rates. the off the shelf rates on gc should be about what you'd want.

for swaybars, leave them as is until you figure out the handling... eventually you'll probably want to get something like the a-spec rear swaybar and subframe brace, but i'd hold off on that until you get the car handling like you want and are comfortable with the rates.

the problem with this type of build is that it isn't the best at anything - so it's just going to be an average performer in all of these categories. there is a good compromise between comfort and handling, but usually the $ invested and quality parts selection is what makes the difference.

i don't know if the omni has adjustable dampening though... I like my n1 dampers in the sense that I can run high spring rates, but it still isn't rough when I leave the settings at full soft for the street.




-hth