Which TEIN Products

[kautionxboi]

I want to drop my car about 1.5-2 inches. Should i buy a whole suspension or just some springs?


Tein Basic Dampers?
Tein S Tech Springs?
Tein High Tech Springs?

[atruhondagrl]

If you only care about the drop, springs. But that could cause you to shorten the life of your stock dampners. If you want to improve over all handling, full suspension.


I was originally going to get the Stech springs back when I first got the car. I'm addicted to good suspensions though and I want a corner carver so I'm going all out.

[blackhawk black si]

I just installed my tein s tech springs and the drop is perfect. I took a corner today that said 25 Mph at 65mph with out a problem i dont hear any squeaking. If you ask me if you just want to lower it you should get the tein s tech springs it improves your handling a bit and improves the look of the car in my opinion by 90%. Unless your planning on racing your car on the track. I would not get the full tein ss coilover kit. On corsport.com the springs are $180.00 bucks and pretty much next day shipping for free.

[Z1 Performance]

Originally Posted by atruhondagrl

If you only care about the drop, springs. But that could cause you to shorten the life of your stock dampners. If you want to improve over all handling, full suspension.


I was originally going to get the Stech springs back when I first got the car. I'm addicted to good suspensions though and I want a corner carver so I'm going all out.

That totally depends on the spring - the Eibach pro-kit and sportlines were developed for stock struts for the FG. The low rates on the Tein springs are questionable in my opinion. A lowering spring really needs to be a bit stiffer than stock to keep from bottoming out (which will blow your struts).

The sportlines on our SI have performed flawlessly for the past 7 months and the drop is perfect. I drive this car every day and the roads around me are less than perfect (and I'm in NYC almost every weekend). The stock struts are fine - no noise, no bouncing (which will occur when the strut under dampened for the spring). I can go over speedbumps and driveways with ease too.

They seem to be really well matched to the stock SI struts - I can't speak for the coupe/sedan since SI struts are 17% stiffer (I believe).