Ppl find springs are bouncy because they use them with the stock shocks. When you use lowered springs, it brings the shock travel much lower and out of the normal operation range. Hence there is very little damping and you get a bouncy feeling which is not good. You also end up damaging the seals, so you will find oil on your suspension in a few months and ZERO damping.
To use lowered springs properly, you need to get shocks which operate in the correct height range. Then you will have a car that feels as good as stock.
Coilovers tend to have much higher spring rates (since most of them claim to be for racing). The dampers are also tuned to match the higher spring rates, so you find them stiff and overdamped. Hence they are uncomfortable when you go over irregularities on the road.
Best choice would be lowered springs + shocks but they will cost the same or more than those cheap coilovers like BC (Bor Chap I assume).
He only wants to drop an inch on a budget, i say springs on stock shocks will do. Cheap and shocks won't die straight away. I had a 2 inch drop on stock shocks, they held up for nearly a year before i sold car. Still good condition and this was an old car not an 03 DC5
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who cares about handling. chopped stockies on stock dampers ftw. srs
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An inch isnt very much in the grand scheme of things. i dunno if any companies make them for the DC5, but if i was just gonna drop an inch, and didnt wanna sacrifice ride comfort and didnt want to buy coilovers, id just buy ground control extended top hats.
But as was said earlier, that's $270 + faster shock wear.
But it's up to you. You could shop around and see if you can find some relatively soft coilovers, whereas some companies like Fulcrum can take your standard shocks and convert them to height-adjustable coilovers for you (probably expensive though, but worth checking).
I have coilovers on my DD and my weekend car (Bilstein for EG6). Yeah it's bumpy as hell, and at first it might make you feel a little sick if you just ate, you hate driving longer distances, you have to avoid as many potholes as possible (which you should do anyway), drive slowly over speed bumps (which you should do anyway) and every single back seat passenger f'ing hates you, but after a while you get used to it and you love it more every time you take a corner with just a little more spirit than you would have with your pussy soft springs
Stiff coilovers + low is f'ing sick IMO. It's a lifestyle braaa
Originally Posted by IDV8
$270 not installed, would have to find somewhere to do it unfortunately.
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