New suspension! Please help!!!

[tsdinos]

At last! The semester is almost over and the summer is only 2 weeks away!!! :icon_mrgr

This year thanks to my beloved little daihatsu sirion i brought from greece..
(apart from sto tw...s that found it amusing to brake my mirror and twist my antenna) i had...

-Less petrol expenses (due to its tiny 1 litre engine)
-No road tax to pay! (my father sorts these things out from greece)
-No MOT
-No frequently visits to garages (japanese reliability!)
-(And best of all) No ridiculsly overpriced insurance!!!

which left me with some extra money to spend on.....

my cally of course!!!!! :icon_mrgr :icon_mrgr


As my calibra had an almost complete engine rebuild this year in greece, i thought to buy her a new suspension and also lower it a couple of inches as now her handling feels more like a fishing boat!
The thing is that as I'm not a really car expert (yet )
I really need your advice on which suspension should I look.
My friends told me to look for these brands :
KW,Leda,Bilstein,Apex...
I dont think that my ecotec will need a top performance one, but what do you think i can get on a price range between £300-£600??

Any advice is welcome!

[Welsh_Andy]

has to be koni, bout 350 gets you springs and ajustable shocks, they are awesome, and wouldnt get anything for me cally,but i got my koni for 250 from larkspeed(special offer)

[tsdinos]

Andy is it this one?
<a href="http://www.larkspeed.com/index.pl?c=KONIEQUIPADSUSPENKITS&p=261721&a=i" target="_blank">http://www.larkspeed.com/index.pl?c=KONIEQ...TS&p=261721&a=i</a>

Do you know if the bilstein B12 kit is any good for its money i found here?
<a href="http://www.motorsportworld.co.uk/frame-detail.asp?PAGE=/kw-suspension.htm" target="_blank">http://www.motorsportworld.co.uk/frame-det...-suspension.htm</a>

[dj_smurph]

koni koni and koni, every vx i have been in with koni suspension has been nailed to the road

[Cozy]

how come they don't sell koni's on that larkspeed one for the v6, i take it you can get koni's for the v6

[dj_smurph]

the koni kit should be the same as the 4x4 as the increased weight of the engine

[dj_smurph]

<a href="http://www.rtecshop.com/index.php?p=browse&category=135&car_make=18&car_model=566" target="_blank">http://www.rtecshop.com/index.php?p=browse...8&car_model=566</a>
not koni

<a href="http://www.potn.co.uk/vauxhall_c1473_3206_3321.htm" target="_blank">http://www.potn.co.uk/vauxhall_c1473_3206_3321.htm</a>
koni
looks like you are gonna need koni shocks and v6 springs from somewhere

the v6 does sit lower iirc as standard

[Tim2001]

generally accepted wisdom is koni shocks and eibach (sp) springs

[BlackKnight]

what about kw? id like to get those kw coilovers :/
purple suspension(powerflex bushes) [img]/smile.gif[/img]

[dj_smurph]

there is people on mig with the kw stuff and finding the finish not upto uk winter roads, the best bit about kw is the koni inserts and i wouldn't bother with coilovers too expensive for something that does the same as a normal fast road kit

[tsdinos]

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Sorry for my ignorance but what is the difference between the coilover and the suspension kit?? :confused: Is the only difference that the coilovers are adjustable suspension or is it sth more?

I really started to think about koni now! Is there any paricular model and/or a website with a descent price on them?
My friends also told me to consider the greek roads as they are a bit bumpy and im afraid they might be to bumpy for a quite hard suspension.
Also I'm thinking to lower it around 30mm.
Has anyone got any picture of a calibra lowered this much?

Thanx for ur help!

[dj_smurph]

coilovers will not be up to your roads i wouldnt use them on mine

coilovers are great for race tracks and thats about it. average cost is £1200 and very hard to setup with out corner weights

koni kit go for just get the springs mines lowered 35mm and i wouldnt go any further.

[tsdinos]

Actually this is what i'm thinking now. The koni SSK. At the moment im trying to match te prices with some greek garages to see if i can find it any cheaper there. At least the fitting is quite cheaper there. Do you know if the koni uses nitrogen like the KW? i heard some good words about nitrogen on suspensions

[dj_smurph]

the top spec kw uses koni inserts.

koni really does soak all but the harshest of bumps

[BlackKnight]

hmm, "top spec" meaning kw coilovers var 3? because on their site there's only var 1 and 2 for the calibra :/