New owner of Megan Coilovers Options

[trdproven]

Heres a pic sample of my megan coilovers. I dont wanna take full pics till i get it at the right ride height for me. I installed the coilovers without height adjustment and they pretty much came out the same as my intrax springs just a tad tad bit lower almost no major change but that means out of the box is somewhere at least 2" drop but then again I havent let it settle. When I installed it my tires were 1 inch of the ground, when I jacked up the knuckle, the tires were decently far from the ground after, I am assuming the ride height will get lower still after much driving. Haven't done a damper adjustment yet too, i was too tired, had stubborn bolts and nuts - had to grind one off. Took it for a quick ride though, stiff but still comfortable at the same time, it must be my tires though. I want to compare the hardest adjustment vs. the softest.




This post has been edited by trdproven: Feb 16, 2009 - 7:10 AM

[trdproven]

honestly not all things are created equal in this world, close but not exact. QA can only do so much there are many variables that keep consistency. What if they took a well built teins and coincidently took poorly builts (defects or not so well built to the standards) of the rest of the brands and tested it. The way to reduce variance and provide true statistics and sampling is to test perhaps with 100 teins, 100 megans, 100 d2, and so forth. Motors are not created equal some motors are built better overal, materials and assembly, in fact everything we get for our cars some have theirs last longer than others. Its all variables, the specifics you are looking for is not necessary unless you have one bad ass track car. but even at that money is the least of your worries if it is a true track car. Anyway what are trying to get out of these posts? We sound like WE need to be the QA inspectors for these coil overs or marketing directors.

This post has been edited by trdproven: Oct 15, 2009 - 1:42 AM

[Harold_Fastwaker]

honestly not all things are created equal in this world, close but not exact. QA can only do so much there are many variables that keep consistency. What if they took a well built teins and coincidently took poorly builts (defects or not so well built to the standards) of the rest of the brands and tested it. The way to reduce variance and provide true statistics and sampling is to test perhaps with 100 teins, 100 megans, 100 d2, and so forth. Motors are not created equal some motors are built better overal, materials and assembly, in fact everything we get for our cars some have theirs last longer than others. Its all variables, the specifics you are looking for is not necessary unless you have one bad ass track car. but even at that money is the least of your worries if it is a true track car. Anyway what are trying to get out of these posts? We sound like WE need to be the QA inspectors for these coil overs or marketing directors.

I honestly do not expect a company to buy 100 of each for tests. Sure that is the best way, then take the average from them.


However, if you buy an off the shelf set of each and test them. You should NOT have a set of D2s with 4 completely different spring rates. Or a set of Megans with valve settings that do not match up when set to a curtain number. Like I said, these tests are what caused D2 to start testing their products after they were made to verify they did not send out crazy setups with numbers nowhere close to what their spec says it should be.

I can honestly say as well that I have not seen a set of Teins or other high quality coilover snap from daily driving. I have seen photos of a Megan coilover that broke cleanly in half on a DD'd civic. In the car game, you pretty much get what you pay for. If something averages $1300 for a certain part, buying one for $800 will save you money in the short run but will not be an equal quality part.


With that stated. I am going to run a set of Megans. I could careless about track worthiness or corner balancing my car. They slam the lowest out of all the offerings of coilovers for our car.

This post has been edited by Harold_Fastwaker: Oct 15, 2009 - 7:51 PM