wingless

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I went with springs and wheels. Springs absolutely suck. Keep the wheels, suck it up and save for coilovers too!

Johnny Boy

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genrec

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Go coilovers...Rotas are jdm knockoffs..i would never support those type of companies....

Warrtalon

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I say it depends on what you plan on doing. The most important handling mod for racing purpose (road racing/autocross) is a nice set of R-compounds. These will help you more than any set of coilovers. I prefer to use my spare set of Rota Torques for mounting race tires, which I use for real racing. I do not have coilovers yet, because I have not yet gotten to the point where I'm skilled enough to maximize the utility of the stock suspension.

If and when my skills match the stock suspension (or surpass it), I will get a nice set of coilovers to COMPLEMENT my race tires. I think that this should not be a decision of rims vs coilovers. It should be a decision of functionality vs functionality. If those rims are just for looking nice, then get the coilovers. If the rims are for having a spare set of rims for racing, then keep the rims. Put some r-comps on the Rotas or use those as daily drivers and put r-comps on your stock Enkeis.

That's my opinion...

Johnny Boy

iTrader: (10)

What about lowering springs are they worth it

Warrtalon

iTrader: (6)

They do a nice job of lowering, but I don't know how much they help handling...

chaotichoax

iTrader: (149)

also depends on the type of springs you are looking at...a set of tein s-techs are not going to improve your handling but they'll signifigantly lower your Evo

Johnny Boy

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what are some good springs i had tein on my last car for like 4 months and then i just bought a set of tein HA coilovers and those were great.

GoRacerXGo

I vote for the coilovers because I believe in performance before looks, but there's quite a price difference between the two... good luck with your decision

Warrtalon

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If you read my response, I consider the rims to be more of a performance gain than the coilovers, because he needs race tires for racing. I equate the Rotas with having a 2nd set of rims for race tires when road racing. I think coilovers would be the best mod to do next after race tires.

Johnny Boy

iTrader: (10)

bump

worksevo8

keep the rims, save for coilovers

Warrtalon

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Strange...before you wrote this, his previous post said exactly what you suggested, but then he edited it to "bump." Weird.

Johnny Boy

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im still thinking but i might keep the rims