Gaz, KWs or Billy B8s?!?! arrrrgh!

[Ed Doe]

Right.

Thanks for all the replies guys and girls.

As much as it appears the 'sensible option' would be to get b8s and eibachs.....


Mazz my gf put it brilliantly this evening (after I'd spent half an hour explaining the difference between coilovers and spring & dampers, damping, rebound, spring rates & what I wanted my car to handle like - oh yeah did I mention she has the patience of a saint?!)

So she turns to me and says "Well Ed at the end of the day you're a fiddler; you wont be happy unless your fiddling with something to try to make it better; I think you should get the coilovers." I don't think she was listening to the bit where I mentioned it would break her back on potholed roads....

Either way, I think I'm sold... untill tomorrow morning when I'll go through the same though process again but come down on the other side in favour of b8s...


So on the basis I stick with this decision, I'm now talking spring rates and lenghts.

Should I get helper springs?
What rates should I get? (Phil, you said 220-270; do you know what length springs I should get? I'm mega-paranoid they'll go coilbound.... :S )

Answers on a postcard

Thanks again everyone