Instead of spamming all the other threads with ANYTHING to do with handling, I figured I'd start one here.
normally for this sort of detail and so forth I post it ELSEWHERE.
The Story:
a LONG time ago it was decided that a good way to start modifying the GTO was to fix up the handling of the car, back in 2004 (ish) I bought some Ksport brakes...they were Woooonderful never had an issue anymore with the endless 140/160 to 70 braking manouvers we(a group of friends) were doing as part of our driving.
Unfortunatly the brakes themselves gradually started to have cracks
at this point I looked around and any sort of other brake system (the largest I could go under 18" wheels) was vastly more expensive for very little gain that was presented. so as a second step to garantee a good set of brakes that would not have problems similar to OEM used day to day, a 380mm kit was researched and specced, unfortunatly THIS required 19" wheels, which then got me looking into how wide I could go(find my thread elsewhere about 19x10" rims), which quickly ended up requiring COIL OVERS! (see, we were going somewhere).
SO what seemed to be getting a good rep around with the Tein Flex coilovers, they had the grand ability to have electronic control over the dampening and everyone was saying how they were "the best option"
low and behold I found a gent whipping them off his car after only 5000km, beaeuuuutiful got them shipped on over and threw them on the front only (the only place where I needed more inner clearance).
WELL! after a great amount of stuffing around I got them to a stage where the car was drivable, however going on a test drive I managed to hit a good sized bump, nothing to major as the stock ECS suspension just compressed and the car went straight around the corner without second throughts NOT the Tein though, holly shit, the car compressed the shock all the way down into the bump stop, and as the car came off the bump the bump stop's added compression was enough to lift the front of the car right off the road and I ended up ~6" from the armco which was something like 1-2 foot from where the car had origionally placed on the road.
it was that split second of HOOOOOOLLLY SHIT that I decided this stuff was RUBBISH, after that event I tried all sorts of crap, look at my Rally coilover thread for the full rundown.
moving forward to the present and I found a local manufacturer of Coil overs for Rally cars who were offering a discount on their current Mitsubishi line (DMS) 3.4K later and sitting on my desk at work I had the most hardcore set of shocks I'd set fingers on
The Specs:
Top plates, Evo 8 (125mm bolt spread instead of the GTO 130mm) $600 ish
50mm Series 2 way adjustable Shock/Coil's $2800.
300lb inch springs (stock is 200lb) Progressive
Total Weight each corner 7.4kg
Spring Diameter 95mm
Total Travel 160mm (yes bitch's..that's like stock mmmmm!)
The top mounts, these are actually EVO 8 spec, but after it was revealed by the legendary Phillip at Super Car Engineering that they can be made to fit with some demeling, I decided they would be better than getting custom made ones for god knows how much
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As you can see they have camber and castor adjustment, you pretty much move the bolts around the holes to get whatever final Castor & Camber you want.
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Vs the Tein top plate:
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normally for this sort of detail and so forth I post it ELSEWHERE.
The Story:
a LONG time ago it was decided that a good way to start modifying the GTO was to fix up the handling of the car, back in 2004 (ish) I bought some Ksport brakes...they were Woooonderful never had an issue anymore with the endless 140/160 to 70 braking manouvers we(a group of friends) were doing as part of our driving.
Unfortunatly the brakes themselves gradually started to have cracks
at this point I looked around and any sort of other brake system (the largest I could go under 18" wheels) was vastly more expensive for very little gain that was presented. so as a second step to garantee a good set of brakes that would not have problems similar to OEM used day to day, a 380mm kit was researched and specced, unfortunatly THIS required 19" wheels, which then got me looking into how wide I could go(find my thread elsewhere about 19x10" rims), which quickly ended up requiring COIL OVERS! (see, we were going somewhere).SO what seemed to be getting a good rep around with the Tein Flex coilovers, they had the grand ability to have electronic control over the dampening and everyone was saying how they were "the best option"
low and behold I found a gent whipping them off his car after only 5000km, beaeuuuutiful got them shipped on over and threw them on the front only (the only place where I needed more inner clearance).
WELL! after a great amount of stuffing around I got them to a stage where the car was drivable, however going on a test drive I managed to hit a good sized bump, nothing to major as the stock ECS suspension just compressed and the car went straight around the corner without second throughts NOT the Tein though, holly shit, the car compressed the shock all the way down into the bump stop, and as the car came off the bump the bump stop's added compression was enough to lift the front of the car right off the road and I ended up ~6" from the armco which was something like 1-2 foot from where the car had origionally placed on the road.
it was that split second of HOOOOOOLLLY SHIT that I decided this stuff was RUBBISH, after that event I tried all sorts of crap, look at my Rally coilover thread for the full rundown.
moving forward to the present and I found a local manufacturer of Coil overs for Rally cars who were offering a discount on their current Mitsubishi line (DMS) 3.4K later and sitting on my desk at work I had the most hardcore set of shocks I'd set fingers on
The Specs:
Top plates, Evo 8 (125mm bolt spread instead of the GTO 130mm) $600 ish
50mm Series 2 way adjustable Shock/Coil's $2800.
300lb inch springs (stock is 200lb) Progressive
Total Weight each corner 7.4kg
Spring Diameter 95mm
Total Travel 160mm (yes bitch's..that's like stock mmmmm!)
The top mounts, these are actually EVO 8 spec, but after it was revealed by the legendary Phillip at Super Car Engineering that they can be made to fit with some demeling, I decided they would be better than getting custom made ones for god knows how much
As you can see they have camber and castor adjustment, you pretty much move the bolts around the holes to get whatever final Castor & Camber you want.
Vs the Tein top plate:
