It happens, but that's the case both with and without coilovers. Come on, you come with this whole theory about stress concentrated in one point and then show a pic where the whole wheel well is ripped out? The shock tower is fine in that pic, and it was a BIG hit that ripped that **** apart. That h...

Did you read any of the above? The static 500lbs load is peanuts. Edit: sorry if that comes over as harsh. English isn't my mother tongue and explaining engineering stuff in simple terms can be difficult for me. I'm an engineer and I did the calcs since the Trueno I bought ages ago came with a fresh...

If you are serious about this, consider jumping straight to the 36mm cartridges for the front over the stock 30mm bilsteins. Last time I checked you couldn't get a whole lot of parts (like the newer double digressive pistons etc) for the fronts, so check with your builder if this changed in the mean...

The rear strut mount failure I have seen. Mostly on rusted corollas. That mount was not designed as a load bearing surface. On a 2000lb corolla let's say 500lbs are on each corner, the springs hold the weight of the car. The stock location of the perch is a good 6"+ in diameter versus the 1&qu...

What's the brand and weight of the watanabe style rims?

Could also be a bump steer effect, that becomes more noticeable with the higher roll rate.

Deuce, then you might have some preload somewhere that's affecting toe or maybe its the quicker loadup you're noticing. Swaybars are springs, keep thinking of them in that manner. Add spring rate to the front of a balanced car and you get more understeer, add rate to the back and it tends towards ov...

@Gotzoom? How do you reckon the *front* bar tends toward snap oversteer? Your swaybars on a stock AE86 are a BIG part of the overal handling equation!! The fronts add about 2.4kg/mm to the front roll rate (good) and half that to the one wheel bump rate (bad). That's as much as or more then the front...

Funny enough, I think shockworks uses Bor Chan dampers with their own valve stack. At least you know exactly what they charge for the revalve. Nothing wrong with the approach by the way. The magic is in the valving mostly, the guts of shock are pretty simple otherwise (untill you step up to Penske O...

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Any pics of that panhardrod failure? I've never heard of or seen any panhard mount failures on rolla's. Sounds a lot like the myth being spread about rear-coilovers. Lots of people repeating claims, zero failures.

You won't be competitive on either of those tires, so it doesn't matter much. If the last few tenths of performance are not an issue, you would be better of with much cheaper and easier to fit 205-50's.

Which 225s? The answer to that question makes all the difference.

225-50 might rub the towers, 225-45 is a better match for both fit and gearing. The people talking about how light the AE86 is are talking out of their asses, go to any autoX and you'll notice why in about 10secs.

Parts by Max are the same thing, with some bells and whistles added on. Taiwan spec, luck of the draw Silvia valving in a new flavor of the week. 400% critical valving will never ride well, much better off with HTS which are at least in the range of what an AE86 needs.

And if you dropped springrates by 50% it would have been just as fun and just as easy to drift.

Oh and don't worry about the brand of spring too much. The new hipster hype is running expensive Swift springs on piece of **** shock absorbers. A perfectly balanced and corner weighted competition car might benefit some from the consistent spring rate. For a street car ordinary brand springs work j...

I'd love to hear from people using hts short strokes with lower spring rates than 8k front/6k rear. I'm curious how low the spring rates can go before the shocks are out of their effective range. The HTS curves seem optimized for a heavier car then an AE86, the fact that you have to add a spacer un...

Where the f*ck do you read someone talking about no height adjustability?

Gotzoom, is your car caged? 8/6 is about 2.5Hz. Nationally competitive NASA PT cars running fresh sets of Hoosiers (stickier then Dot-R) and at least a wing hover around 2.3Hz. At around 6kg/mm a stock chassis flexes so much that for every inch of spring travel, the chassis bends the same amount on ...

8/6 springs let the tires and chassis do most of the compliance. If you translate these springrates to wheelrates and suspension frequencies (which can be compared between different kinds of cars) you end up with numbers that are usually reserved for track-only cars with roll cages, slick tires and ...