hai1206vn

My car at 1:12 flies over a huge bump. You can see the rear has quite a lot of travel fully compressed. From the driver seat, it didn't feel too bad at all compared with looking from outside.

The digressive damping seems to allow the springs to compress a lot when hitting bumps, which softens the blow to the driver's ass and helps with traction. On the other hand, this consumes a lot of damper travel, so there's higher chance of using bumpstops.

My rebound is at less than critical damping so there's a tiny bit of oscillation after extending from a hard impact. I'm no expert on shocks; this just seems to follow the rule of thumb of 65-70% critical as target. The current damping setting works well over small to medium bumps, but when bump stops are engaged nearly at full, effective spring rate goes up quickly and damping force can only do so much.

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Here is a link to my suspension install, over the coming weeks I will be tuning my rebound settings and reviewing the modification.

My linkhttps://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/1033159-a-unique-koniswift-spec-r-install/

Mccormick009

Any long term updates on how this setup is preforming?
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hai1206vn?

Slowcrash_101

Well I can't comment on his but mine have held up well for over 15k miles.

bendang2005

That's great to hear. I plan on going the same route. No racetrack near me so I won't be missing too much.

chinoamigo

Thread resurrection!

Just a question for any suspension gurus out there, I'm probably going to go with CR springs / Koni yellows and I'm running staggered 225/255. With the stiffer springs and staggered set up, would I need to change up my sway bars to have my car be more 'neutral'? My car's a 2002. Any input would be appreciated!

Car Analogy

The cr springs are definitely going to bias you more toward understeer than your '02 had with all stock suspension. But maybe this isnt such a bad thing. A common mod for your car is adding a bigger front sway bar to the otherwise stock suspension, to try and tune out some of the inherent oversteer bias.

You would accomplish something similar with cr springs, but perhaps done a better way. With stiffer front springs, instead of stiffer front bar.

I say try it with stock bars first, and see where you are at. Front rear bias is somewhat subjective, so what feels just right to one driver may feel too biased to another. So we can say exactly what will feel perfect to you. But cr springs with good shocks, that can handle the spring rate, is probably a good place to start.

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