I was wondering if anyone had a cheap setup that rides smooth and is driveable but also looks good. I got 15in wheels on some chopped *** springs (not my doing ) and i'm looking to upgrade. Anyone...?

 

koni red specials
h&r sports

or tokico illuminas
and h&r sports

you may want to even think about the eibach prokit springs with the matched pro-dampers.

probably the most expensive would be Koni yellow sports and H&R sport springsm but this is perhaps the most versatile. The tokico illuminas are a great 'second' to the koni yellows for an adjustable rebound damper (very great actually just not as much rebound adjustment).

 

tein s techs and tokico blues will get you a nice ride for cheap. make sure you get a camber kit too.

 

You got some pics of these?
Yeah, I'm in the market right now for a camber kit

 

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You don't need a camber kit, get an aligment and get the toe set to 0 per individual wheel and your tires should wear even (I'm lowered set to 0 toe and no uneven tire wear. Camber in the rear on my car is about -1.5 per rear wheel and the front is at about -1.25 per wheel).

tThe damping that the tokico blues provide are not by any means 'performance' impressive; the Koni 'Red' specials perform a lot better than the Tokico blues. Tokico blues' quality has kinda went down since they have changed the country of manufacture from japan to china; but not all are made in either place, I just know that they are not the quality they used to be when they first were made.

Tein s-techs only have a one year warranty from what I understand. I'm not saying they don't perform well, imo they just dont have an appropiate warranty to help back that performance up. H&R and Eibach are going to be in your top 3 of spring manufacturers in the world. Turner motorsprts has used H&R springs in their race-prepped BMWs without fail. I forget where I read it but they have tried others in the past and they just didn't holp up to the H&R springs. Ebach makes very high quality as well as HyperCoil; (hypercoil mainly produces linear springs for use in spring rate spedific adjustable coilover setups from what I understand). I belive both Eibach and H&R carry a million-mile/lifetime warranty.

 

Well thank you for your very elborate responce. My main concern I guess is price though. I want some thing that will perform but this isn't getting taken to the track (yet). All I was thinking was some Tokico shocks and some lowering springs. Eventually I do want to go with full coilovers though.

 

Somethign that will perform without breaking the bank will be a spring and shock combo. If you plan to later upgrade to adjustable height coilovers, your best bet to be able to use some of the stuff in the future would be to go with Koni Sport Yellows, and H&R sports or eibach prokits, ebach sports etc. Then later on you can purcahse a ground control threaded sleeve and spring kit that fit exactly to the koni shocks' body. This way you don't 'waste' money on new dampers or a whole system; the GC kit for koni shocks costs about $350. There is no functional difference between a threaded sleeve and a threaded shock body coilover setup; they both serve the function to adjust height by means of threads that hold the spring perch. Using 'full' to describe an adjustable height coilover is rediculous in my opinion, your stock suspension by definition is a coilover--coil (spring) over shock design. The term 'full' came about when companies started putting entire kits together, with a threaded shock, springs etc. Threaded shock bodies were availible way back when as were threaded sleeves, but you still had to select from a couple manufacturers for springs. The defacto standard of linear 'straight/coilover' springs is either Eibach's ERS or Hypercoil. I cannot attest to the quality, or lack thereof, of the springs used in many of nowadays 'full'-pieced-together 'made in taiwan' coilover kits; i've only had experience with ERS springs.