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Originally Posted by Sirbelch
Sooooo, I’ll give my opinion now on teins as I have the most experience with them on our cars.
Tein SS: Good for the street. Not stiff at all, according to what my butt says. The springs are only 50% stiffer than stock. So, at full soft, it feels just a tiny bit stiffer than stock. The SS actually make the car push more at the limit than stock, although those limits are higher. So you it makes you think they handle better when in reality they have done nothing to change the balance of the car for the good. I feel that the SS do not have enough low speed damping. Low speed damping comes in to play when you are truing. More low speed damping will help resist body roll in a corner and will help in quick transitioning (like a left right left complex). Also, I feel there is too much high speed damping which effects how it rides. The big bumps all felt the same at full soft or full stiff. Mid speed damping is where the adjustments are. So making stiffer only increasing mid corner grip but doesn't help on entry or exit. Also making it stiffer makes all the little and medium bumps feel a lot bigger than they are. I had SS for a year. The older they got, the more squeaks, rattles and pops they made. I even rechecked all the nuts and bolts and they were just as tight on day 365 as day 1.
Tein Flex: Much stiffer ride. Springs are 120% stiffer than stock. You feel every bump and the big ones will compress the spine. They have a better damper than the SS. More low speed damping and less high speed damping with about the same mid speed damping. Limits are much higher than SS and stock. On ramps are super fun, especially the 2 lane ones where you can blow buy people. The Flex's rotate just a much as stock does if you set the front and rear at the same click. If you increase rear stiffness, it does get a little more rotation out of it. Full stiff is wicked rough on the Nor Cal streets I drive on (So Cal gets all the “fix the street money,” which still doesn’t help them out too much). People in the back seat will hit their head on the roof on almost all bumps. I’ve had them for 4 and a half months and in month 3 all four dampers broke within a day of each other. They make a sound of escaping gas every time they compress and its only getting worse as time goes on. All so the ride is getting rougher and the number of cycles it takes to return to normal after hitting a bump is increasing. I have to send them back to get them rebuilt. 3 effing months and they all break. That is some top notch quality right there. The good news is I will get to sell them at an almost new price because they will be rebuilt like new.
This is why I am getting the RSM coilovers. Koni dampers and GC springs. Can’t wait.
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thanks for the info
I'd better go back to HFP for a while,
and gonna try other shot than Teins.
oh.. I'm curious about FSD shocks(Koni)
anyone experienced FSD yet?
they explained some on their site but.. it's all commercail-like words so..lol