Are you tired of the same old boring stock look.......


What do you look for when you want to go lower on your ride? Do you look for performance? Do you look for comfort? Do you look for looks? Affordability? Looking to go so low that none of your friend’s coilover brands can ever go that low unless you’re on air bags? Well if you want a little of everything mentioned above, look no further my fellow Evo X’ers Stance has came out with a phenomenal product that not only slams your ride in style but it also absorb bumps like fat chick jumping on a therapeutic memory foam bed.
Introducing the Stance LX+

As advertised from the website’s pie chart, this coilover is clearly aiming for the kind of people that like to not spend a lot on a coilover, have a built quality that is equally backed up by their excellent customer service, comfortable without being harsh like other coilovers are, gives the ability to slam as low as you want, and stiff enough to hit those apex’s with ease.


Some key features that makes this coilover better than the competition:
-The design of the lower bracket positioning and the slots in the holes are designed clearly for clearing very wide wheels/tires and allowing maximum chamber adjustment (up to -4 degree camber up front)
-Height is adjusted by the lower bracket assembly, which is the entire lower body is thread and a free spinning cylinder is rotated to adjust the height. What this mean? Your height does not affect the load on the spring as some coilover do where they are adjusted by the spring collar for height adjustment. The lower bracket rotates up and down the shock body for height adjustability.
-Aluminum collar and upper mounts help reduce the possibility of thread binding overtime and are less prone to corrosion
-Pillow ball upper mount with adjustable camber mounts up top for ultimate adjustability and flexibility with your setup.
-Top mounted 15 way adjustable damper dial. For the rear you can get the extenders for it so you don’t have to tear your trunk wall apart to get to the adjuster dial.

On to the experience:

When I think about coilovers I think about race cars and their super stiff ride. But when I got these Stance LX+, they weren’t joking when they said that these coilovers are there “Luxury” line of coilovers. When I rode on them initially I could not believe that I was riding on a suspension that was near stock feeling and sometimes more comfortable than before. Dampening was set at the middle from the stock get go which was right around half stiff and half forgiving. When I adjusted the dials to full soft, man are they plush and when I put them on full hard they feel very sharp on the turns and the response is increased greatly. It took me a week before I found the sweet spot for my style of driving. 13 front 10 rear. I love how the damper is adjusted at the top vs the bottom like some competitors coilovers aren't.



The LX+ eat up small bumps like they are non-existent and as for large bumps they are predictable (same experience as if you’re on stock struts). I’ve written on these LX+ for around 5-6k miles and so far no defects to report. Everything seems very solid built wise, no creeks or rattles.

Slamability, if you can see the first set of pictures, those are my initial drop when I first got the LX+ installed. It looked so awesome and hugged the road like no other but due to my small ramp on the garage exit, I had to increase the height by a inch to clear it. The initial drop was 2.75” from stock. Current height now is 1.75”.



If you’re looking for something to take the track often I would not recommend these as they are more for a daily driver or weekend auto-x nothing too crazy like full on track events. The spring rates on these are 9k Front and 8k Rear and the valving is exactly valved for this application. You can ask for stiffer springs or custom valving for the product through Stance-USA or Touge Factory. Remember everything can be custom made to order.
If you want something that is track worthy and affordable you can get Stance GR+ Pro.
If you want something that gets you track times that’ll make your local GTR look like a Fischer Price on the road, get their New Stance GR+ 2 way or 3 way which allows for dampening and rebound adjustability with the 3 way having high and low compression adjustability. Both has external reservoir for dampening adjustability and both has high quality SWIFT springs. SS-D (special valving) application can be asked for all GR+ coilover product line.

Final thoughts:
Affordable high quality coilovers that can’t be beat. Mike at Touge Factory has a ton of experience with coilovers in all sorts of applications (Evo’s especially) and he can recommend you a coilover that is based on your needs and priority. Mine was luxurious comfort but with the ability to slam with best yet retain drivability. Luckily Touge Factory is also an official Whiteline vendor so I scooped up a set of Whiteline RCK which is a must if you’re going lower than 1”.
Thanks Mike from Touge Factory for setting me up with the proper coilover.

Teaser pic of my latest project.

 

Damn. I think I found my next mod. Time to start saving.

Btw, I have always love threads with your stance, wheels, and.lip combo. Wish my Evo looked as.good as yours. Looking foward to your next project.

 

Great review! I just picked up the Fortune Auto 500s with the Swift spring upgrade and rear helper springs and plan on doing a similar review myself once it gets warmer out.
I got a slightly different setup with 9k front and 10k rear and the car is also my daily.

On a sidenote, how did you get your TF license plate frame? I don't see them available on their website.

Brett

 

awesome review, ur car looks hot.
Btw, what mirrors are those? they look different than the normal craftsquare ive seen.

 

Great review man I was waiting for someone to review these as I have been looking at them for quite awhile. Great write up though and really appreciate it. car looks great too by the way.

 

Great review. I'm also on stance coilovers and I'm thinking of upgrading them with the swift springs.

 

Have you ridden in any other COs? How would you compare them to the LX+.

I am currently running Stance GR+ and feel the ride is too harsh even though I got used it. I chalked it to having a sports car.

After sitting in a S2000 with bilstein ps99 COs. That car rode like butter. Felt like I was driving my Lexus.

I decided to purchase some kw v3 on impulse cause i wanted a smooth ride even while lowered but might sell those to get the stance lx+. I haven't track my car yet even though I want to.

 

It's all in the valving along with the spring rate to help give you the most optimal comfort that your aiming for. GR+ are a bit harsher but they were meant to be track oriented coilovers. LX+ on the other hand is really mean for a daily driver with light autox uses. The Lexus guys, 350Z, and Subaru guys all swore to the comfort of the LX+ line. Only recently 1 year that the LX+ line started to flood into the Evo market. This is why you rarely hear about the LX+ besides a select feel like me taking a chance on something totally not common with the Evo community. Typically Evo guys use there cars like track machines so that is why GR+'s are more common for Evo's and also why you probably had them as a first choice. LX+ is definitely a coilover that will fit your needs if your need the comfort level.

I'll be taking my LX+ by March 28th to upgrade to a new GR+2way system that just came out in the past 3 months. I'm going to try to use my car more often as a track machine now that I got another car as my daily. Hopefully by then someone would pick up my LX+.

 

such a good review..you go through parts like i go through boxers. im so confused, did you put your car back to stock for winter? or do you just have an abundance of pics? looking forward to seeing it at the meets this summer.

 

naw, I'm just like to try new stuff each year. My parts never usually last longer than 6 months on the car. I'm going to be on my 3rd intake in a month from now. I'm on my 3rd UICP already. 4th shift knob, soon to be 5th shift know. 2nd set of rims already. 3rd exhaust already. Second GT style wing. 2nd Carbon Fiber radiator shroud. 3rd BOV. And finally my 2nd coilover. Holy crap now that I listed the parts that I went through more than once, man am I a parts *****. I guess I like keeping updated with current times.

 

the community is lucky to have people like you that actually make the decision to test out new things and do good reviews on them , cheers

 

Thank you sir, I only live to bring this community things they want to see and stuff they care about. Why post a review thread if you don't go in and out on exactly what people look for before purchasing a product. Look into my next review when I transfer over to Stance GR+2 way system. Now that I have the LX+ as a baseline, I can compare what a track oriented coilover can do on and off the track.

 

You say the the lower bracket was designed to give more room for clearing wide wheels. Do you have any measurement against the stock strut to see how much extra clearance there is? Like centerline of stut bolt to centerline of strut body?

 

I won't be able to measure till I take the LX+ off late March. I have the stock struts sitting in the garage right now. I'm able to put 19x10.5 +25 on 275/30 tires so far up front with no rubbing against the coilovers.

 

Ok if you can measure in March I would appreciate it. I'm running 19x10.5 +25 with a 285/30 and when I lower the car to the point that my coilover spring is next to my tire they rub. I have to keep the spring slighty above my tire which makes car higher than I want. This happens in front only. If LX's have a lot more room it may be an option for me. Thanks.