Yet another coilover recommendation thread
 

The wheel gap has been getting to me lately so I'd like to drop the car about an inch.

Thinking of buying something this fall when things go on clearance or next spring when all of the options will be available again, depending on whats available when I go to buy.

I was thinking of getting lowering springs but I live in Canada and daily drive the car in the winter so I'd like to be able to raise the car back to near stock ride height for the winter if possible so I think coils make more sense.

In terms of usage, I daily drive the car about 4kms per day, attend about 4 track days and around 10 autox per year. I've only started doing events this year so I don't have much experience yet.

Budget is around 2000CAD/1600USD.

I don't really know where to start so I'm looking for opinions.

If your only going an inch lower you don't have to worry about the winter. You wont be "scraping" or damaging anything an inch lower.

RS-R Sports-i
Bilstein B14
RCE Tarmac 0
Tein Flex Z

Wow only 4km a day?? are you worried about comfort if you only drive 4km's?

Comfort isn't very important to me but it is still something to think about. Daily driving isn't the only driving that I do, I frequently go on trips to the beach or the park in the summer and once a year I do a 1000+km road trip to visit friends in other cities. All-in-all I put about 10000kms on the car per year.

I am planning on going with the Bilstein B14's because I doa lot of DD. I would also try to include lower control arms and camber bolts atthe very least in your budget (only like $250 USD more or so if you get thecheap stuff) just so you have camber adjustments for your auto-x and track daysbecause alignment is very important for performance

That's a good point so thanks! Unfortunately, I cannot make money appear out of thin air so it will have to come out of the general suspension budget :thumbdown:

Looking at 1700CAD/1350USD now. The Tein Flex Z seems to be the only thing in that range but the reviews I'm reading on it make it sound like they aren't confident it will stand up to track abuse. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll find something mentioned above on sale/clearance/lightly used that falls into my range.

Keep saving, winter is coming so why not wait till next spring by that time im sure you could have like 4 grand saved for ohlins :)

Read my comment up above. If those are outside your budget, then just get the regular Fortune Auto 500's without the upgrades.