Well after saying id never fit another set of coilovers on my car i fancy another set mainly to set the rear ride hide and stiffnes

Are the Gaz Golds much better than the normal ones?

And has anyone strengthened ths rear mounting point?

 

Got Golds on mine, and they work great. Especially after fitting helper springs (which I think all coilovers should run).
Didn't mod the rear mounting points, but did fit a strut brace, and all is still well a year down the line.

 

My car has been on coilovers since the 90s with no rear mounting point bother.

 

isn't it the bottom you have to mod? I would not have coilovers again on a road car.

 

Have Gaz golds on mine with rear strut brace, been on for 3 years with no problems.

 

Have been running coil overs on my car for the past eight years with 'touch wood' no issues, no strengthening or strut braces but had been advised to fit braces had a set of avo's before and now have black art design, I can see why you don't think they are good for road use, no matter what ones you have they all seem rock hard to me fine for a nice smooth race track surface but as for Britain's roads



Say no more

Luciano

 

I always said id never have them again after i sold a set of Leda coilovers but people seam to think theyre ok if you get the correct spings so im kinda hoping its true

Any know anyone that sells the rear strut braces that fastern to the boot floor and the struts? The triangle shaped ones.

 

Only for the like of my group a Bilsteins. Normal coilovers fit straight in.

 

It only seems to be people with fords that think coilovers are to hard and unsuitable for road use. No one else has any problems with them.

 

Imo there not good as our roads are utter crap. Great on a track but for a road car you can't beat koni's and good quality springs.

Found mine far too harsh and noisy on gaz coilovers. Didn't have anymods to top or bottom but from what ive seen since the bottom arms need strengthening as all the rear end weight is on that bracket were as the standard spring assists the weight.

Best mod for a 3dr is a rear strut brace.

 

I'm going to disagree here lol.

You could spec coilover to 'feel' exactly the same as Konis/springs if you wanted. The problem is people buy relatively cheap coilovers that are inferior to a good shock/spring setup then wonder why they feel crap.

 

Fair comment then Paul billys are good just goes to show you get what you pay for

 

Coilovers can be easily specced to whatever stiffness you like. Makes no sense saying they're all unsuitable for road use. You can have them even softer than standard if you like!

 

Fitted Leda coilovers back in 1999 never had a problem no mods to car etc. Had then re-sealed a couple of times & modded by Black Art. If you are having probs you either have cheap coillovers or the ones you have are not correctly specced. I except they would be difficult to Spec if you like your car to wollow like a whale in a storm or handle like a bucket of shite & many owners have there cars like that.

 

Mine have a very similar ride quality to a MK2 Focus RS. The old ones were horribly hard

 

I had bad revalve and re spring there normal kit to be softer and the diff if made gave the car a really good ride and still handled very well as a road car.

Mark

 

Black art design had two goes at sending me coilovers, both times they looked like they'd come out the second hand parts bin. The C spanner was probably the most aesthetically pleasing part of the kit

 

Can you sort mine out?


Luciano