Nohachi's suspension ramblings thread

[TeZe]

Very interesting info's, keep up posting them.

I also would like to share my experiences with my car. It's a caged (full FIA homologue weld in custom cage) 3 door Levin. Suspension has(had the following mods: Cusco F+R ARB's, poli bushes, front Pass Racing coil-over conversation with 6kg/mm Swift springs and Tokico HTS, RCA, Tein camber plate. Rear had rose joint pan-hard, TRD 4,7 kg/mm springs and the Tokico's. It was ok, a tad soft for track use, and drifting, but my car does regular duties as well, and sometimes amateur rallying. Basically I was happy, it was sweet handling and had a good neutral balance. It has a Quiafe QSR and a Yaris electric servo, and it is as easy to drive quick as it gets. But I was not happy with the dampers.

I really don't like to say it to loudly, but I was not happy with the performance of the Tokicos. They were not as good damping and holding the car, as I would liked to have. So last autumn I sold them and got the sport Bilsteins with the standard springs for the snow fun. It was perfect, and I did learned a lot during the winter times.

I also tried to figure out what to buy for this summer as an update. I wrote e-mail to a lot of suspension companies (10 or something) with my current (old) setup, and that I would like to have something more race oriented, high adjustable, and in damping 3way adjustable suspensions. No or not useful answer from Koni, Bilstein, Tein. Freindly answer and good customer care from Intrax, AVO UK, Proflex, KW Motorsport. In my price range (tbo it's a bit above, with ~3000 euros at the moment I would choose between AST or Proflex - they are rally proven is Hungary, and have local support.

Your topic, and specially the race Konis you mentioned before caught my interest. Would you recommend them or anything else? Have you any experience with the above mentioned companies?

Thank for the answer, and cheers, TeZe