finally got around to putting on my ReSpeed Street/Race Coil Over kit on my Auto cross car. Im not to good of a mechanic so i had a little trouble installing the front coil overs but after asking billy a few questions they went right on with no problem, very easy product to work with.

hear are some before and after pics.



Before



After

 

looks good!

 

Was that the street version, or the race version (requires welding)? Looks good, but I'm wishing you had a better before picture. What spring rates and shocks did you go with?

Nice looking car...

 

Here's a couple of shots from my early years.

Details on suspension at this time:[LIST][*]Racing Beat springs (all 4 corners)[*]Racing Beat front Swaybar[*]Illumina Shocks (all 4 corners)

It was certainly better than stock, but you can see in the autocross photo that she still wallowed pretty bad when pushed to the limits.


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its the street kit and i wasn't sure on what spring rate to go with so i just went with 250 front and 150 rear. its a rough ride lol. The car came with Tokico HP series shocks but im going to swap them out soon for the Illumina's.

another before shot when i first got the car

 

Here's a few shots as she sits today.

Suspension details:

• Respeed coilovers front/rear
• Illuminas front
• Bilsteins rear
• Respeed front swaybar
• ISC Racing rear adj. swaybar (no longer produced)
• Respeed Camber Plates

I don't have any recent "action" photos handy, but I've got something better. I put this video together as my defense in an argument over spring rates. It's a pretty good example of what the car is capable of now, although these shots are from a test N tune the day before the race, rather than the actual race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9cmv1PTd5M



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Dude, excellent choice on the spring rates. Once you slap the Illuminas on there, you'll be all set. On a setting of "1" you've got a sporty looking "comfey cruiser". Jack those badboys up to "5" and you're ready for battle.

Have you got an aftermarket front swaybar yet? That is a very important item that you won't want to neglect. Probably the biggest improvement that a single part can make, but unfortunately it also has to be the last part added. If you put a heavy bar on stock suspension you'll end up with understeer that's simply unbearable...

Are those 15" wheels?

 

agreed, the illuminas make it quite tolerable. been driving at 5... its awesome, but i took a girl out to lunch so i put it to 1... totally different feeling. then she wanted to feel how stiff it would get. put it to 5. she loved it ..... now she wants to start drifting etc

p.s. i'm not completely done with the kit... waiting on the camber plates and brake kit. this will be fun!! then i'm getting a bigger sway bar up front, and putting the stock rear back on. Kentetsu, you have the respeed front bar right? and the stock rear?

 

whats the ride hight now?

 

im running the stock front sway bar and no rear right now. and yea the wheels i have on right now are 15's and i just purchased tigermacks Hoosiers for this seasons auto cross. its going to be fun!!.

i will have to measure the ride height this week.

 

By the almighty himself Jim Susko's recomendation I'm running 300/200...

 

looks really good. just the amount of drop i need on mine.

 

Respeed bar on front, 3 position adjustable set to the hardest setting on the rear.

 

do you know who makes that rear one? RB? ST?

NVM just read your previous post... xD man the things i miss when i don't reread

 

Your car looks like it was sitting really high in the before pics man.

I haven't done any suspension mods, but I'm sure after I take my car to my first Auto-X this may I'll be wanting something better.

 

Kentetsu, were your RB springs used? You seem to get alot more roll than my car gets around the cones. Here's my first auto-x from last September. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z-KWz3N6U8. I have Tokico Blues and RB springs all around and RB sway bars front and rear. I really wish RE-Speed had been around when I bought my car.

 

No, they were new, especially back then. However, looking back on it I may have been using the Illuminas on a very low setting on the front, trying to cure understeer issues. I might have had the rear swaybar off too (which I tried for a short time). Hard to say, I used to play around with all the settings back then, when I should have just been driving.

I spend far less time changing things these days (once the car is changed over to "race" mode, that is (swap tires, lower front end, set camber, add a pinch of toe out)). Any adjustments made after that point are strictly made to the driver.