Rear subframe inserts are nice! What other bushings are you allowed?

- Andrew

Aftermarket poly or rubber bushings allowed, any metal => points...

Thanks again. I am assuming the answer is no but I will ask anyways, did going to the B8 give you more wheel/suspension clearance?


If i have to run camber plates to fit 17x9, for the price of shocks, camber plates and lowering springs, i might as well run Fortune Auto 500 with camber plates already or the B14. I will just swap back to the stock suspension for the winter time.


Thanks.

The B8s definitely gave significantly more bump travel up front. I was pretty much resting on the bump stops at -30mm ride height with the PP Sachs struts and Raceseng camber plates (which take away some bump travel). Any small bump => BAM! It was pretty terrible on the street. I'd have to slow to a crawl and weave around to avoid bumps. With the B8s the car is transformed! Drive over bumps at normal speeds with no problems.

One reason I went with non-adjustable Bilsteins is that I'd rather have *good* nonadjustable dampers engineered to work well over a broad operational range, than lower-end adjustables.

I didn't like the B14 progressive spring rates for track work: F 2.5-4.5, R 3.0-7.0, and ride-height adjustability costs me a point (42 lb.).

FortuneAuto might be fine. I didn't consider them because ride-height adjustability (1 point, 42 lb.), and also Bilsteins seemed more of a known-good quantity.

Gotcha. Some opportunity there then IMO either with rubber or poly.

- Andrew

Plan is to take incremental approach. 1st stabilizing the rear subframe and seeing what that does, proceed from there.

Makes sense. You've got a good set up going already.

- Andrew

What I meant was wheel/suspension clearance (as in more room for camber bolts) with the B8 vs PP sachs.


Yes, I did read up on the progressive rate of the B14. Seems like everything is a compromise. haha....


Agreed with the Fortune Auto name vs Bilstein but FA's package is hard to beat. $2k (cdn) all in for their 500 series (street/track) that is a monotube design, 5 year warranty, built stateside as is the rebuilt at $75 a corner. Each shock comes is dyno matched......seems like they are somewhat big in the drift scene. Could be all marketing but sounds not too shabby.

Ahhh, nah, not much if any difference as far as clearance for wheels/tires I'd bet, though I didn't specifically measure clearance before/after...

Indeed!


Yeah, they seem to have a decent rep and offer spring rate options.
Another thing to consider for me was that it's my daily driver and gets driven on snowy/salted roads, I get the impression that most aftermarket coilovers are not really designed to stand up to that.

If you want to adjust height between summer and winter seasons, then it'll be a pain to keep the threaded sleeves clean and functional. Same about corrosion, which most of the manufacturers saying that they have protection and in reality you have corrosion! I had a set of adjustable "quality" coilovers with limited mileage and I sold them after 2 years. I cannot imagine what would be their condition if they were installed in a highly mileage car ...