Dude, you are crazy... Tein is a highly respected suspension manufacturer in Japan. I was in full agreement of your statement until you wrote that portion. Tein produces dampers for everythig from street to full out N1. They do a lot of R&D and are proven to be a leading suspension component manufacturer.

 

oh really? then show me a single person who is serious about autoxing (and is actually competitive) that uses tein products. anyone who's got the budget will go for something along the lines of moton or penske. tein is a step up for commuter cars (civics, sentras, etc.) but quite a step down from the stock s2k suspension. if you'd rather take a company's reputation over actual real world track testing, then go right ahead, but their's a reason all the major autoxers use penske and moton.

one thing i will say about the tein coilvers is that at least the spring rates are matched to the shocks, but other than that, they are just another overpriced suspension downgrade.

here's a quote from the autox suspension faq in the racing and competition forum. it was based upon the setups of many of the fastest autox S2000's in the country. kinda funny, but i don't see anything about tein in there.


edit: btw, i forgot to mention ohlins and jrz's. both are also good shocks. this is not the first time that someone has disagreed with my stance on suspension upgrades (or downgrades) for the s2k, nor will it be the last. people like to think that the $$$ they just spent on their shiny new jdm setup wasn't just flushed down the toilet.

i have the stock suspension on my car and it will stay stock. it's just not worth the $$$ to go with a better setup for the ocasional autox/track day.

this is all i'm going to say in this thread. i've said my piece, i don't want to bring a bunch of BS internet arguing into a simple thread about springs. odds are no matter what i say you are going to disagree with me and i am going to disagree with you. so let's agree to disagree.

 

Back to the original question, Did you get hub centric rings with the wheels?

 

thanks man, I ll be sure to do that.

 

I am not sure dude. When the rims arrived I didn t get to look at them. They just put it on my car for me and I was on my way.

 

I quess the only thing that I can try now is to go get an alignment, I ve heard that the problem could be that the cambers are off. What do u guys think? It don t matter too much that the car doesn t handle corners or ride as smooth as it use too but I just want it to be drivable. Right now I just don t feel safe in it when the ground is wet. Feels like the car is going in the opposite direction that I m steering sometimes. I had to drive like 30 mph all the way home on the highway yesterday. Its rides fine though when the roads are dry.

 

Update?

 

What size tires and what brand are you using?do you have in the rear?

 

once you do suspension upgrades of course the car is gonna feel like that. You said you putm in coilovers, but what about the rest of the suspension did you upgrade shocks/struts? did you get the wheels balanced? You need to do all that in order to still ride smoothly when you put in coilovers, I learned from experience on my other car. I put in the adjustable coilovers and rims but did'nt upgrade anything else. The rims were not balanced with the little weights and the coilovers were lowered with the stock suspension still in = the car was bouncing up and down and wheels shaking and wobling at speeds over 50mph. So that probably is what you need for a smoother ride.

 

any shop that puts tires on wheels without balancing them should be firebombed. i SERIOUSLY doubt that has anything to do with the problem. no respectable shop would do that.

in an effort to not be a total dick in this thread, i know there is a shop that makes adjustable ball joints that should help you out in the camber department. that should make the car less squirrely.