helper spirng or no helper spring?????, probably going with tanabe coilovers. Options

[urbandork]

Ok so who went with tanabe coilovers instead of tein coilovers? and how do you like them? did you get the ones with the helper spring or not and what was the reason? Is there any reason y i wouldnt get the one with the helper spring? I know tanabes are not adjustable like teins but the tanabes have a stiffer sprig rate then the teins. Plus for me adjusting might be a pain in the butt as ill always want to play with it.

The reason why i ask is because after reading all the coilover threads most of the ppl on the board seem to have gone with teins and i havnt read one speck on anyones views with the tanabe coilovers. Other then tein and tanabe are there any other companies that make a full coilover and strut set up that wouldnt be a custom job? Ive recently seen D2 making coilovers for our cars but how r those?

as a side note i also plan on using ST swaybars front and rear.

from what ive seen this whats out there

tein
spring rate 7.0/5.0
adjustable
monotube???

tanabe
spring rate 8.0/6.0
non adjustable
daul chamber (not so good for wear right???)
helper spring

D2
spring rate 7.5/5.1
adjustable
monotube (good idea for wear right???)

i figured that with the tanabe's ill lose adjustablity, which i dont mind as its one less thing to mess around with, however ill gain a stiffer spring rate and the helper spring should help with comfort a bit.


thanks a bunch guys and gals.

This post has been edited by urbandork: Apr 4, 2007 - 11:10 PM

[TJ97ST]

I don't know if this factors into your consideration, but a Tanabe rep pointed out to me that the coilovers are actually made by a different company.. I think KYB. If you look at the actual coilover, if even has the KYB label on it. I would check that out to make sure.

A lot of the coilover setups are made by third party vendors, and on a lot of boards people are arguing about whether the build quality of name-brand coilovers such as Apexi, Megan, Greddy, etc. are the same because they came from the same manufacturers such as Bor Chuan in Taiwan.