Need spring advice.
 

I have been looking on the forum for days now deciding on a set of springs for my BRZ.

I am looking to lower around a 1-1.2 inches all around and want a spring that won't blow my stock shocks.

I drive the car at HPDE's, local drift events, and through mountain roads a lot.

I upgraded to some HC800 pads, and 225/45/17's on stock wheels.

I still want the car to have good neutral feeling (maybe more oversteer if possible with just springs).

And...... GO!

RCE seems to be the default spring upgrade for this car. No personal experience but it seems like the countless who have gone this route are extremely satisfied.

Good luck with your search

Other choices I would suggest are Swift BRZ springs, Eibach ProKit, and H&R Sports. I'd like to see some more feedback on the Swifts but the people I have talked to with them are very pleased.

Another popular spring is Eibach Sportlines, that's what I went with. Gave the car a nice drop without being too low (wish I was lower honestly). My rear camber was around -2 on both sides, I added lower control arms.

The stock ride on these cars is already pretty rough, springs didn't help, it's rougher, but I'm also on bigger rims with less tall tires. With the new tires and springs the car just grips, turns like it's on rails. A lot of the playfulness from the stock tires is gone, but the car can still be rotated, I actually spun it at the last auto cross event I attended.

Don't have many pics on stock rims, sorry about the shitty quality.

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I run autox and road courses on the swift lowering springs and highly recommend them. The ride quality on these are second to none, plus these springs are perfectly matched to the factory shocks. If you're still in the market for springs a couple months down the line, these will be for sale once my ast shocks come in.

I'll recommend RCE Yellows and RCE sways for a great OEM+ style setup with lots of trackability as well as streetability with a reasonable right height. 22mm drop is nearly an inch and the equal rate (250 lbs/in F&R) is a great match for the OEM struts putting them in the 65% critically damped sweet spot on a shock dyno as RCE tested.

With some negative camber in the front via top mounts and rear dialed out via adjustable LCAs (-1.4 front and -1.5 rear) I find the car to be very neutral on track with nearly zero body roll. With the RCE sways set stiffer in the rear and softer in front it will oversteer with a good amount of predictability at the limit of adhesion. Check out some of my track footage if you want to see how the car behaves with this setup.