Quote Originally Posted by Cool Cat Racing View Post
I can tell you've never ridden in a car with good suspension. Even on the street its a huge difference. A decent set of shocks/springs will ride better, handle better, keep the suspension geometry right, and cost the same. I've gone from even nice shock/spring setups to nice coilovers and loved the street ride even more. A cheap set of coilovers rides like shit, doesn't last, and handles like ass. I'm about tired of the "if you don't race it won't matter" BS. If you want your car to look like shit because its too low, ride like shit because its too low and on shitty suspension, and damages the body work and frame then go for it. If you want it to actually handle properly, ride like it should, and not fuck everything up then just save your money and get good coilovers or go the route that countless thousands of other miata owners did and get some springs and some koni's.
dont let the picture in my sig fool ya....i have had....

96 civic coupe with Skunk2 springs and Tokico Illumina
SRT4 with eibach springs on stock shocks
350Z with Tanabe GF210's on stock shocks
94 civic sedan with Skunk2 springs and KYB AGX
SRT4 with BC Racing inverted coilovers with rear camber plates($1400 set up)


noooo....your right i have no experience with different types of basic suspension set-ups

his car is going to ride like shit regardless cause he is going to slam it. it might ride alittle better with a NICE set of coilovers but if he had the $ for JIC/stance/buddy club or any of the other high quality set-ups out there i dont think he would have been looking at these. your right though, a nice set of coilovers will ride and handle better....is it worth double the money to him? i dont think they would ride any worse than a spring/shock set-up at the same height.