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fooddude · 05-16-2014, 02:39 PM

Here's what I've gathered regarding parts and pricing:

$999 for OTS B14

Future Custom Revalve & Respring:
Total: $1470
$425 HVT Front Top Mounts
$285 RaceSeng Rear Top Mounts
$340 ($85x4) Swift Coilover Springs
$100-110 each Revalve to match Swift coilover springs
http://www.bilsteinus.com/products/s...rvice/service/

$1470 doesn’t sound too bad for a complete custom rebuild, revalve and respring to your exact and desired specs in the future, when your B14/B16s are worn down and need a rebuild 3-5 years from now. Or, if you just want to customize/upgrade them after a better understanding of what you really want, from all the experience you’ve had on the track. A nice Bilstein coilover; but with aggressive specs. Not to mention the quality will be super high quality and very good, via Bilstein

And, $2470 total doesn't sound bad either for a complete high quality non-adj setup (same price as most mid level coilovers). What's good is that it is modular and you don't need to buy everything all at once, just use the OTS for the first few years and save for the rest when the time comes. Though it would've been much cheaper if you didn't need to buy new top hats and if somebody made direct replacement springs for the B14 (ie: narrow lower spring diameter with oem top diameter spring for oem top hat reuse). That woulda saved $700 right there making a respring/revalve more convenient and economical for a non-adj setup. UNLESS, that is, the RCE replacement springs for their R0 and RII fit...does it fit? ...it kinda looks like they may fit, because RCE reuses the stock upper oem hats too) @Racecomp Engineering.

I see one part missing though…the rubber, or metal, part that goes inbetween the rear upper spring and RaceSeng Rear Top Mount. I could be wrong, but I think the RaceSeng Rear Mounts are designed to reuse your existing stack on your current coilover or oem spring setup.. BUT, since the B14 originally reuses the stock oem upper mounts, you cannot reuse them again when switching to the narrower 60mm Swift coilover spring replacements, and the B14 does not come with an upper stack mount for 60mm springs. So you obviously can’t just use the new Swift springs and the RaceSeng Rear Mounts without some kind of rubber or metal stack mount in between, right? (unless it will be direct metal to metal, spring to upper mount contact with absolutely zero bearings or rubber washers..sounds like it would eat and dig into the metal and be very noisy). How do you solve this and where can you get this kind of washer/stack/bearing part?

05-16-2014, 02:39 PM	#166
fooddude Banned Join Date: Dec 2013 Drives: 04 Toyota Tacoma Prerunner Reg Cab Location: LA > SF > NYC > OC Posts: 943 Thanks: 556 Thanked 268 Times in 200 Posts Mentioned: 6 Post(s)	Here's what I've gathered regarding parts and pricing: $999 for OTS B14 Future Custom Revalve & Respring: Total: $1470 $425 HVT Front Top Mounts $285 RaceSeng Rear Top Mounts $340 ($85x4) Swift Coilover Springs $100-110 each Revalve to match Swift coilover springs http://www.bilsteinus.com/products/s...rvice/service/ $1470 doesn’t sound too bad for a complete custom rebuild, revalve and respring to your exact and desired specs in the future, when your B14/B16s are worn down and need a rebuild 3-5 years from now. Or, if you just want to customize/upgrade them after a better understanding of what you really want, from all the experience you’ve had on the track. A nice Bilstein coilover; but with aggressive specs. Not to mention the quality will be super high quality and very good, via Bilstein And, $2470 total doesn't sound bad either for a complete high quality non-adj setup (same price as most mid level coilovers). What's good is that it is modular and you don't need to buy everything all at once, just use the OTS for the first few years and save for the rest when the time comes. Though it would've been much cheaper if you didn't need to buy new top hats and if somebody made direct replacement springs for the B14 (ie: narrow lower spring diameter with oem top diameter spring for oem top hat reuse). That woulda saved $700 right there making a respring/revalve more convenient and economical for a non-adj setup. UNLESS, that is, the RCE replacement springs for their R0 and RII fit...does it fit? ...it kinda looks like they may fit, because RCE reuses the stock upper oem hats too) @Racecomp Engineering. I see one part missing though…the rubber, or metal, part that goes inbetween the rear upper spring and RaceSeng Rear Top Mount. I could be wrong, but I think the RaceSeng Rear Mounts are designed to reuse your existing stack on your current coilover or oem spring setup.. BUT, since the B14 originally reuses the stock oem upper mounts, you cannot reuse them again when switching to the narrower 60mm Swift coilover spring replacements, and the B14 does not come with an upper stack mount for 60mm springs. So you obviously can’t just use the new Swift springs and the RaceSeng Rear Mounts without some kind of rubber or metal stack mount in between, right? (unless it will be direct metal to metal, spring to upper mount contact with absolutely zero bearings or rubber washers..sounds like it would eat and dig into the metal and be very noisy). How do you solve this and where can you get this kind of washer/stack/bearing part? Last edited by fooddude; 05-16-2014 at 03:32 PM.