I have them on koni yellows @ 3/4 stiffness and on the highest perches.

If I hit a bump at high speed the front shocks and springs completely compress and tire hits the inner fender. It hits really bad and eventually im going to break something. I want something stiffer but not lower. Anyone suggest anything? HR, comptech, stock?

Im thinking of putting my stock springs onto the koni lowest perch for more spring travel. Im trying to stay away from GC and skunk 2 coilovers as i already had a sleeve type coil over (weapon r) and they sucked.

I may go with Tein coilovers at some point to fix this problem altogether.


Modified by S03Burner at 4:05 PM 11/16/2003

 

Same set-up for me and I never bottom out. It hits hard sometimes when driving on the highway but never bottoms. I have bottomed the stock suspension and i definitely think the prokit/yellow is better at handling the bigstuff at highspeed.

I know you can't adjust the compression damping but i think that it your problem... possibly a blown compression damping circuit in your shocks or something.

 

turn the stiffness up all the way

 

**** controls rebound and not compression.

 

I have Koni Yellows also (for almost 4 years now), and some Eibach Sportlines... I believe the Sportlines are even softer than the ProKit, although Eibach doesn't release the spring rates to the public (atleast when I called them).

Koni told me NOT to use the lowest perches on the shock with the Eibachs... the lowest I should go is highest on front, and middle in rear...

I used to have them at the lowest setting all around, the handling sucked, and now the car actually handles much better even though the car is "higher"(Tested at Willow Springs and Buttonwillow)

Also, when my car used to "bottom out", I found out the Shocks were blown... If you are the original owner and have a receipt, you can send em in... (I'm, on a second set)

I am also looking at the Teins and Zeals. I drove a race prepped Honda Challenge racecar this weekend, and the difference between the Zeal "race" dampers and the Koni "Street" dampers is huge...