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Old 11-05-2009, 12:02 AM   #21
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Agreed with both posts above...It always comes down to what you use the car for...It's a simple vibrations problem for those who have taken that class....

An underdamped damper cannot dampen the high frequency of a high spring rate...That being said, BreakMyWallet, if you take your friends car to a race track, it will not perform nearly as well as a set of matched damper/springs...I think you know that, it's just not really something that needs to be bought unless you feel you're going to get everything you can out of the bilsteins etc...

I can speak from past experience on this one...I had installed lowering springs on stock dampers for another vehicle...Holy crap, the OE dampers couldn't dampen the oscillations in the spring worth a dam
very well put. i was just making the point of making the handling of the car worse
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Old 11-05-2009, 03:44 PM   #22
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my race springs and zhp shocks felt amazing, was even better when i replaced my rear shocks with bilstein sports. sadly that was around the same time the fronts started going out as well
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Old 11-07-2009, 08:08 PM   #23
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Hell, I think I want to trade somebody my sports for races...I just want a bit more of a drop
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Old 11-12-2009, 03:01 PM   #24
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Stock springs killed my ZHP shocks in ~ 60k miles, perhaps that was your point?

LOL, yea my zhp suspension was showing serious signs of performance depletion after 60k.
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