ok im sooo lost i have done a good bit of suspension mods and im hearing over on s2ki that it wont make any difference or lil difference. what are yall running as far as suspension mods and do yall think they made any difference honestly? appreciate the help as always. thanks

suspension mods being rear tie bar strut bar lowering springs or coilovers sway bars pretty much any suspension mod

 

the spring rates on the espleir springs good rate for the s2000 so i want add to the already tail happy s2000?? i drive my car hard and dont want to lose that *** in one day my friend already did but he was pushin his to the limits he has a 01 berlina and was goin 91 mph around a 35 or 45 mph turn. and he is a dumba$$ i told him the same thing. im smarter than that but i do take my turns 10 15 20 miles per hour dependin on what the car can handle not like him. god he is my friend but what a moron he just got it back out of the shop. i just heard that if the rear spring rates or spring rates or wrong it will add to the car bein tail happy and loseable on corners.

 

I have no idea what you just said. Please re-write that.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JdmLude04 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">the spring rates on the espleir springs good rate for the s2000 so i want add to the already tail happy s2000?? i drive my car hard and dont want to lose that *** in one day my friend already did but he was pushin his to the limits he has a 01 berlina and was goin 91 mph around a 35 or 45 mph turn. and he is a dumba$$ i told him the same thing. im smarter than that but i do take my turns 10 15 20 miles per hour dependin on what the car can handle not like him. god he is my friend but what a moron he just got it back out of the shop. i just heard that if the rear spring rates or spring rates or wrong it will add to the car bein tail happy and loseable on corners.</TD></TR></TABLE>

WTF? Damn, I wish I had the hammer icon

 

I have a headache now.

okay... what do you want to do? why? and please tell me you aren't going to dump a grand in suspension mods and then turn around and cheap out on tires, are you?

 

mainly have a good balance for hard driving on the street with the ablity to go on the autox and road courses and do well. sorry for given you a headache i got some asprin if you need em thanks for all the help

 

defintely not gettin cheap tires i dont get anything cheap i mean the main thing about my parts are the quality thats why i like spoon mugen etc. what tires would you suggest??

 

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i suggest Bridgestone Potenza S-O3 pole position

 

thats what i have on the car now

 

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negative ... you have the S-O2

 

my current suspension mods are jic flta2 coilovers, jic lower xbrace, j's racing upper brace, spoon rear lower brace, spoon sway bars, cusco subframe brace, cusco 6pt roll cage.. all i can tell you is think "gokart".. its def not a comfortable ride for a daily, but i just love the way it handles at the track...

 

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dude..it never left us....

 

yea im with yall on that one.

 

I only have the Mugen coilovers for a suspension mod. The car rides much better than stock and corners on a dime. Not sure why the guys on s2ki say that coilovers dont make a difference??? Maybe they dont have their coilover setup correctly. Mine were dialed in by King themselves! I highly recommend them for suspension setups

 

nice setup... im still wondering how stiff ima be with my espelir springs and spoon x brace rear tie and front strut ima get them on and see then go from there. still about to go nutz about ground clearance im mean i should have enough but i got a somewhat sloped drive way and i dont want to scrape in and out i mean i had a del sol and had it on ground control coilovers and i couldnt go across anything without scrapping i mean that just did it for me so hopeuflly all will come out good.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JdmLude04 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">nice setup... im still wondering how stiff ima be with my espelir springs and spoon x brace rear tie and front strut ima get them on and see then go from there. </TD></TR></TABLE>

pm WaltsS2003! He just installed that setup on his S2000. I dont think he has the x-brace though.

 

appreciate it will do!

 

good coilovers + good alignment + corner balancing the car.

that should pretty much do it. not much else to be honest with you. if autocross / road courses interest you, don't dump money on coilovers just yet. the driver does well in each of those and that is 90% of the task right there. the other 10%, which is probably more like 5%, is the car. keeping it stock, will give you a baseline to gauge where you need to improve as a driver, and will then help you chime in to what you need to do to the car itself.

if someone over at s2ki says you will see no benefits with coilovers, yes they are incorrect and you are probably in the wrong forum over there. I suggest you lurk a while in the racing & competition forum. lots of good info.

 

The only after market suspension I have experience with on the S is the Tein RS, combined with a Saner 32mm front sway bar...

It feels great on the street, nose dive feels to be completely gone under hard braking...

it will be track tested this weekend.

the owner is gerryk on s2ki.com

good coil-over's, alignment and corner balance... you will be amazed it's the same car...

 

ok i had talked to one of the guys i ordered the espelir springs from and i asked him HONESTLY what would be better cause he had a group buy goin on for the tein flex coilovers and the edc maybe or whatever allows you to adjust from inside the car and he told me to go with the espelir which suprised me cause normally they try to sell you the most expensive product which is 180 dollars to the tein group buy of a 1000 and something. he said every customer he sold them to loved the espelir springs basically and to just go with them and koni yellows? so do yall think that will be as good of a setup as the tein flex or some sort of coilover system??? just tell me your honest opinion, dont flame, and im off to sleep ill read responses in the morning

 

i bought the tein's over the espilers because of the adjustability factor... with the coilovers i can adjust the height.. with the springs i can't..... and the edfc is sweet.

other mods to suspension is cusco lower front brace, cusco front STB

and with this. i like the handling...i can take turns more aggressively...

 

anyone have experience with JIC. I'm thinkin about those.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by whoisdan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">anyone have experience with JIC. I'm thinkin about those.</TD></TR></TABLE>
yes, i currently have it on my car.. most pepole in the other board are complaining about the products and bad cs.. luckily, mines been fine for the past two years!! jic really have a bad customer service though, eventhough my parts had not fail in performance, i would not buy anymore products from them..

 

only other issues I have heard (not experienced) with the JIC's is the excessive heat at track events. while if you are a novice track driver, or only go out a few times a year, you will probably not notice at all compared ot stock shocks. however, the heat issues can be an issue for most of the non-external reservoir coilovers. don't let it worry you though. still a nice setup for the dollar.

 

im running kg/mm race and koni yellows, im 100% satisfied. espiler springs are soft.