Suspension Options

[Jus]

What do you mean by crashy guys?

Hard with pillow mounts for road use or crap handling, i.e crashy?

[clive]

Hi Jus,
 

  By using the word "crashey" that we have used in these posts it has been  to describe the fact that when you hit a pot hole or a big bump in the road with either standard worn suspension or most track type hard coil over shock set up\'s on an FD it feels like you have just left half your car and your teeth in the afore mentioned obstacle.

I have now found along with others that the Tein Flex suspension kit lets the car almost glide in and out of pot holes and things and hence takes away the  "crashey" sensation.

It\'s just been a pleasant side effect from fitting this kit to an FD, so this means you now have a car that not only corners a lot faster but you also end up with a more pleasant comfortable car to drive.

p.s. l am finding personally that a lot of cars with 50K+ on them have dead shocks anyway, and that by renewing the shocks a lot of the rattles and bangs go away and that the noises were not after all caused by worn suspension bushes etc

Hope the above waffle helps.

[Tianbao]

Sorry to be a dunce but what does the flex kit include, am a bit green on the suspension side of things. A higher mileage car will have tired dampers, also bushes yes? so are bushes done at the same time? what else needs replacing with this work?
Just tryin to cost it before i jump in at the deep end!!!
J

[Mazdarotaryparts]

Sorry to be a dunce but what does the flex kit include, am a bit green on the suspension side of things. A higher mileage car will have tired dampers, also bushes yes? so are bushes done at the same time? what else needs replacing with this work?
Just tryin to cost it before i jump in at the deep end!!!
J

The Tein Flex Kit comes as a complete ready to bolt on kit with dampers springs and top mounts, meaning you literally  unbolt your complete damper assembly via the three top bolts and the one bottom one and renew the whole assembly.

Have a look here for more info http://www.tein.co.uk/products/fpindex.html

We supply this kit at a special discounted price for MRC members of £998 inc Vat and delivery, and we also supply a full set of easy to follow fitting and set up instructions with every kit that uses the knowledge we have learnt from fitting many of these kits ourselves to customer cars.

( several customers have found the instructions easy to use)

Hope this helps.

[zevans]

In the interests of spreading the cost, is it possible to buy the springs / dampers first and then fit the EDFC at a later date? Or is the fitting for the stepper motor thingies not the same fitting that the manual adjust would screw into?

[20B_boy]

You can buy just the coilovers Zack, and get the EDFC later.

[McCARTHY]

I\'ve currently got the HKS hipermax coilovers but am not really that satisfied with them on the whole. I\'m looking at the Tein super drifts and the Zeal fuction type D\'s...... i have the zeal fuction v6\'s on my scoob ans they are simply amazing.

[t2rew]

ive said it in the other post about suspension but i fitted tien flex\'s to my fc and it made a big difference. i set the damping to 5 in from soft and it was like a magic carpet. i firmed it up a bit more but havent had much in the way of play time so that is all ive experianced.

i would recomend them. the car can take off on bumps if you go fast enough because the struts are shorter.