I am looking at a set of tein he's. Tein says it is set up for drift. I am a beginer driver and want to try my hand at drift, but also want to take the car to the road circuit. and ofcourse i drive it on the street to. Will these coilover be ok?

 

Yup, there for Drift'n, but they can still be used for track.. I'm sure there stiff as hell ( or so I assume) I'm not a drifter and rather an SSCA guy, but I have had Tein's, Ohlin's, etc... They'll all work, but "drift" shocks must better...

 

The rear spring/damping rate is too high -- that's why they're for "drifting". I think you would be better off getting a more balanced coil-over setup for street/track driving. You could tune the setup to be more "drift-friendly" when called for.

 

Agree... My friend had some K-Office on his FD and I could pitch that thing sideways so easy.. I think the rate in back was like 900lbs or some ungodly high rate... Like I said I'm not a drifter, but I've ended up in that "4 wheel drift" from going to fast on a course

Personally experience I'd recomend the Tein Flex's...Nice happy medium..

I have a set of Ohlin's too that need a rebuild...very nice suspension

 

The TEIN HE shocks have high compression valving and low rebound valving, depends on what track you are doing, it might not be the fastest setup.

 

if your a beginner driver go out with what you have first then learn from there, your teacher will tell you what you need to work on for your car. And it's also better to learn off a stock car, to get the feel of a stock suspension.

-Andrew

 

These are the magical steps to making your car go fast
1. Take all money that you were going to modify your car with
2. Sign up for racing school
3. Take racing school
4. Save some money
5. Take saved money and go to race track days
6. Save more money
7. Rince and repeat until your laptimes are good

You keep doing this and you can get a stock car to own a modified one around a track becuase you will be a BETTER driver. The RX-7 is already a good car. Make you self a better driver than your car is good before changing the suspension.

 

Agree with mono,

For one if you are admitting you are not that good of a driver slapping parts directed to the type of driving you want is not the best idea. True drifting really requires the drivers ability to feel the connection between the car and the road. And I mean true drifting not mashing the gas and turning your wheel sideways or what teenage kids do as they are leaving the school parking lot. keeping control of a drift, knowing how to balance out your gas peddle, not understeering or oversteering is only gained through experience. No part in the world is going to allow you to know how close to losing complete control of your car you can go. and no part is going to teach you how to truly drift. I'm not going to buy professional baseball bat and expect to be able to hit homeruns. Why put all that money into parts mess up your car and possibly wreck the parts you bought any way. Make sure you know how to control your car normally before you buy something that purposely makes it easier to lose control.

 

I have to agree with the two above guys and I'd say you should look into buying a set of Tein Flex... they are indeed a happy medium and can be tuned for drift, autox or street use very easily, not to mention its not a harsh ride. they are a somewhat inexpensive coilover that gives you enough adjustability (camber plates plus independent adjustments for ride height and stroke/preload) to make the car look good, sit lower, corner/ride very well and perform much better than stock... they also are not too stiff so you can bump the FC up in stiffness by changing other aspects of the suspension if you need more ride stiffness (bigger swaybar F or R or both and a race seat and stiffer sidewall'd tires, etc.. ).