Looking to get either coils(Tein, or BC) but curious if I should just go with Koni and some Z springs? Thanks

 

What do you want to do..and I don't mean that as in what product do you want to buy. I mean what is the goal? They offer two completely different alternatives so without knowing your purpose (or budget), one can not give you an accurate opinion.

That said, I will never recommend a strut and spring combo when coilovers are available. It is LITERALLY the exact same thing but with adjust-ability of height and normally dampening as well. I can't honestly imagine any scenario where you WOULD do strut and spring over coilovers, but I'm sure it exist.

 

^for a modest drop that you don't plan on adjusting, coilovers aren't necessary. With as many model cars (sedan, Coupe, Z) with slightly different suspensions to pull from, you can put together a really decent shock/spring setup that will be great so long as you don't need adjustability. I'd be willing to wager a lot of members here don't even use the adjustability feature on their COs.

 

Price! $1000 coilovers VS $400-700 spring/strut combo.

That being said, yes coilovers give you adjustment beyond what anyone really needs. But also i've found that many coilover owners after their intial adjustments NEVER touch their settings again. Even tho they have the option, many say "its not worth the time/hassle" and getting another alignment in some cases. I was one of those people.

I bought under the assumption of raising it up for the winter and lowering it back down in the spring. I never did that at all, i found a happy medium and stayed all year around. If you do your homework you can get springs at that happy medium. Also during the winter months the coilovers are a little more stiff, fluids in the shock body are thicker. This happens less with normal struts/shocks.

One thing for sure might be worth it, you dont need to use spring compressors to install coilovers. While its not hard to rent the tool or hard to use them, i've heard of horror stories of springs taking out fingers and etc.

They both have their places, My last car was on lowering springs/struts. First couple setups i have on the G was springs, then coilovers and now stock looking for springs but this time i'm done. Car is getting too old and rusty,

 

Id say coilovers because of resale value.if you are trying ot get koni yellows then just get coilovers.

 

I guess the majority of people aren't wheel ****** nor use their car for multiple duties. I've had 3 or 4 sets of wheels and I've gone between more than a handful of tire setups. They've all been 18's, but I've gone between 8.5 widths with 38 offsets all the way down(or up depending on how you measure) to 12 widths with negative offsets. I adjust my coils quite a bit when I actually drive my car. Plus, I drift. If I know I'm going to go sliding on a track, the car comes up a bit...or if I'm on a wide set of flipped tires and I don't want any fender bumping, it'll come up a bit. But, for general spring/sumer/fallish cruising, I got pretty close to scraping on everything. But I'm abnormal

 

Haha was going to stop by Z1 today and grab a Koni and ebach setup. However my lower ball joint sh|t on me as I was driving to Florida on spring break. Managed to limp into town as the tire popped. Now, new lower ball joint and tire. Yayy

 

I'm telling you Koni and springs won't resale for sshhiizz

 

Was going to... Broke a ball joint

 

nuh uuhh u said koni and ebach..

 

oh yeah. resell on that stuff will be absolutely non existent. lol. But, as long as they work for you.

 

What about Bilstein Struts?

 

To expensive ^^^

 

As was in the same situation.
But I chose bilstein over koni because it's monotube design, which can be rebuilt. Plus they give you lifetime warranty

 

I'm pretty sure Koni shocks have a lifetime too.