well I installed my Tein yesterday and the setting are as per the instruction. I really think the car needs to come up. It doesn't even have the tranny installed.

 

whice one did you get?

 

Flex's if you want to lookat a high resolution one just let me e-mail it.

 

it's ok.
i was thinking aobut picking up a set, but can't decide on what to buy yet.

 

well if you give me a few days I will tell you how the ride goes. I have very bumpy roads here.

 

cool beans

 

well the more I look at it the more I like it. should I raise it a bit or leave it be?

 

Kind of hard to tell how it will look without the tranny. Did you get just the springs or the shocks too?

 

the whole coil over

 

I think it looks quite nice actually. Maybe a little bit bigger wheels later on down (by bigger i mean 17's), to give it a little bit more filler under those wheel wells. To me, the stockers just seem too small when the rexx is lowered.

Even if you don't tho, I think it looks great man, good job!

 

Back looks fine, front looks a bit too low. Looks like it will rub, but it could just be the angles in the pics. Remember, with your weight and full tank of gas, it will come down a bit more too.

 

well I got the tranny back on and I was able to ride the car. At the softes setting, the car rides like a Cadillac. I love the ride. I will recommend this suspension to anyone. I raised the car a bit but still needs to come up now with me sitting in it and the tranny with a full tank of gas went down to were the picture are but no rubbing.

 

i've been thinking about either those or the RA... i just don't know if the RA will actually make the car handle better...it's going to be a street car with some occasional track use.

are the ra's higher quality, or do they just have more points of adjustment? i want the best thing i can get, but don't want to pay for features i'll never use.

 

PM Howard Coleman about what coilovers are best to IMPROVE handling. Or at least he will give you honest opinion. I know he did a thread here somewhere.

 

thanks!!

 

Hee hee hee,

The front looks P.I.M.P. but the rear needs an ince or two lower. Then, the car would be P.I.M.P.'ed out Oh, it will need a bling bling 18" wheels tho.

 

i found the writeup and looks like the flex have the best spring rate for what i'll be doing. thanks again!!

 

No problem.

 

actually, on second thought... tein has other spring rates, so i cna always drop something else in there.... but an excellent start anyway.

 

Looks great. Did you measure the height? I believe you measure from the fender to the center of the wheel. I've read what others were running for a height but i dont remember search you could find some helpful info..

 

You don't want to go very stiff when you will be mainly using street tires. The stiff rates will make the tires slide before the suspension even moves enough to get weight loaded onto that outer tire.

The tein Flex is a wise kit if you will be running your basic high performance street tires... a little bit stiffer would be good for street slicks or full racing slicks (unless you aRE JUST DOING OCCASIONAL AUTO-X AND NO TRACK EVENTS) oops, caps

 

well i could always get softer springs for the ra's, but are they going to make the car handle better? what about opposed to hks hypermax or whatever...

maybe i'll just keep the car stock for the street and find something that will work well for racing and just bolt them on a couple days out of the year....

 

trust me the flex will do just fine

 

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