$2k coilover budget - 95% track car. what do you recomend? - Page 2

msp282 · 2011-05-23 21:49:06

The Eibachs have a known issue with the bottom mounts breaking off on the rear shocks. The Mazdaspeed coilover kit is from Eibach, believe it is the R1. This has happened to several people here in the past. That is because the mazdaspeed rear had .500" shafts. Eibach has since remedied this with a .625" shaft, with a one piece seal head instead of the old two and three piece ones.

09-30-2011, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by TeamRX8

Kind of ironic that many people who run NASA over SCCA often note the rules as being one of the main reasons, yet a $2000 set of KWV3s gets you a serious mod points penalty that you don't get with a $5000 Koni 28 series setup, go figure ....

Yeah... this is just a problem in the NASA "Performance Touring" class which uses the same rules as time trial. The shock asorber rules have been problematic. They USED to do it based upon the retail price of the shock asorber. The director then found that certain shock asorber manufactures were lowering their prices to be just under the limit the rules allow (hey... not a bad deal from my consumer standpoint!). So he came up with the current rules that seem to mainly just distinguish based on wether the shock is remote reservoir or not. Certainly a flawed system. We'll see if it changes...

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