how good is the EDFC system? does it go from rigid to relaxing soft ride? or what?

 

i have flex's on my s and are hapy with them. i have to adjust the dampening a bit cause they a bit too stiff right now lol

 

i beleive the only difference is weight, the mono's are lighter due to the aluminum shock body where as the flex's are steel. I have the flex's and love them.

 

it has 3 settings that you can spec to your needs.

 

Ya i read up on the EDFC but not sure how the coilovers feel at their softest setting...as i have KW on my other car and when i pissed off the last thing i like is a car that chucks me around the place cos its set up rigid as!! lol

 

Flex's on the softest setting feel very much like stock, only slightly stiffer. I run mine 14 clicks up front and 12 clicks in the rear pretty much all the time.

 

Monotube vs. twin tube.

The monoflex is monotube, obviously. Monotube is generally a nicer design.

Besides that, I think the spring rates and damping are slightly better than the flex.

I think that the flexes had some issues with the damping getting much worse with age. I think the monoflex adressed that issue. Although, my friend's Miata with 4 year old flexes still rides great.

I have KW V3s personally and I love them. My Miata/Tein owning friend is in the S2000/KW market now. So...

I think either one of them is a great street coilover. My car sees a track day every ~1000 miles (I averaged it out). But I do like to drive it on the street a lot. It's not my DD by any means. It sees about 6k miles a year and I go thru tires every ~3-4k miles . I love the ride on the street.

I think that KW's overall quality is a little better and they come with a lifetime warranty IIRC. The spring rates are also a bit lower than the monoflex.

I've had flexes in the past on a different car and I feel that my KWs are a HUUUUGE step up.

However, you can't hard park as hard with the KWs. They aren't a full body adjustable coilover...so you can't really slam the car and expect it to ride nice. The Teins are full body adjustable.

If you want slammed and hard parked, buy a full body adjustable coilover regardless of anything else.

 

They're both steel.

 

+1

difference is valving, spring rates and monoflex beeing monotube design

 

[QUOTE=Nickamsweet,Aug 25 2008, 05:52 PM]