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Old Jan 18, 2012, 09:19 AM
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Tein flex 10k/10k spring rates on street tires(autox)

Just looking to get some input to see if anyone has run these before.
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to these. (Came on car with a few hundred miles on them)
Old Jan 19, 2012, 04:48 AM
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Did you have GTWorx or Robi V3s?

Any other suspension tweaks? Just 10/10 will understeer a bit on you.
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Regular v3's. Came on my last car I bought, now these on this car. Stock rear sway on it also. Rear sway tigheten things up a tad? Or sell them for a few bucks. seeing as the car only has 5,300 miles, the coils have less then that. That may fund a portion of a nice set of coils.
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Damn, 9 with under 6k miles? New car there.

You could add a mild RSB to tune the handling *some*. Inherent nature of the car as-is would be to push. RSB might get you some rotation, but it will be forced.

Personally, I'd sell for a set of GTWorx KW3 or ASTs. You're planning on HPDE and AX, right?
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Possibly, oh and its a 2004 =). I am probably going to put them up for sale sometime soon and grab some better coils or just do revalved bilsteins/Swifts again.
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How competitive / what class? Nationals?
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No nationals for me. Far to much money, I would rather a few HPDE's vs that lol. Very competitive on the local level though. Spec R's and bilsteins got a lots of FTD's. Probably STU
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How competitive / what class? Nationals?
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Used Ohlins, prepped KW3s (GTWorx) or new ASTs. Or back on Spec Rs and Bilsteins.

STU can go from mild to pretty wild for suspensions.

I'm running STX on KWs for Nationals.
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Used Ohlins, prepped KW3s (GTWorx) or new ASTs. Or back on Spec Rs and Bilsteins.

STU can go from mild to pretty wild for suspensions.

I'm running STX on KWs for Nationals.
Black spec r's any different from the old blues? Going to try to sell the coils today
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Nope, just changed color. Same everything else.
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