"I just want to lower my car"

[Mgivens]

I just ordered the RCE tarmac zeros...after months of research and a similar situation to yours(daily driver, maybe an hpde) this seemed like an awesome solution. A set it and forget it bolt on kit from an EXTREMELY well respected company for a killer price. What's not to love? A KW coilover built to RCE specs!

From RCE

"We targeted the mid range of the T2's for this set so that a potential "set it and forget it" track day/ back road kinda guy or gal could just get these, throw on stock mounts, add some front camber( -2.5 is obtainable as its slotted a hair) and have fun.

Intro special still going on until the first batch of 10 is gone. 7 left at this point.

Myles
RCE Founder"

[kvnchu]

Originally Posted by j2digit

thanks so much guys for the input. from what i gather , the consensus is - for DD, springs is enough to achieve the drop I'm aiming for without breaking the bank. for the record- i was initially going to go with stance coilovers but decided to wait for you guy's input on this. i guess , if i had my choice with coilovers- only kw3 or tein are my preferred choices.
now comes the hard part- which springs should i get? dang , so many choices again............................................. ............

Did you figure out what you wanted to go with yet?

Best,
Kevin

[SLICVIC]

BC Coils for adjustability and inexpensive compared to coilover pricing

[j2digit]

Originally Posted by kvnchu

Did you figure out what you wanted to go with yet?

Best,
Kevin

Yeah , I went with Tein S Tech springs. quality name and supposedly gives you the drop you're looking for. Wish I had taken before and after pics just so that I can show the drop but basically - before the drop you can put 4 fingers in the front fender well and now i can just squeeze one finger. the rear is the same but instead of 1 finger , its 2. hardly noticeable when looking though that one finger difference.
Ride quality is a mix up of good and bad. Good in the sense that, you have better handling in turns now and stuff ,but on roads that are not so good ( occasional bumps and not so perfect pothole fix) you definitely feel them. on perfect freeways, its very fun to drive , but on some that are kind of dated and have those lines every 20 feet or so, you feel them a lot more than with the oem springs.
Also , because I had them lowered and installed a staggered set up of Enkie Kojin wheels with size of 18 x 8.5 fronts and 18 x 9.5 for the rears, I have a camber offset of 2.1 degrees in the rear. I now need to install rear camber arms and rear toe arms to have that properly corrected. I planned on installing them anyway but not so soon, I guess my intake project will have to wait till i get that fixed.
I don't have a build thread yet, but you're more than welcome to look at my album to see the drop and my new wheel set up.

thanks

[kvnchu]

nice!

[BlueLeader]

Originally Posted by SkullWorks

Let's try and help this guy out with all the info,

A "shock" or shock absorber is used in the rear, it only has to deal with vertical (up, down) motion because the suspension has multiple links and keeps the shock from being loaded.

In the front however, The "shock" also has to help locate the front suspension laterally, therefore it has to be much more stout and is referred to as a "strut" in this configuration,

Our front suspension design is commonly referred to as a McPherson STRUT assembly,

It's like the all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares arrangement.

We need more people with your attitude

[charged86]

Eibachs here. Love em.