i want coilovers that are FOR drifting or that can withstand heaing amounts of drifting, so Obviously Ones First Choice Would Be Tein Super Drifts But Thos Arent Exactly In My Budget. Now, I Saw Some Megan CoilOvers On Here For 750 But I've Never Heard good About Megan Parts. I Have Heard Good About Stance And K-sports Tho. Any Helpful Input Welcome. Thanx
WOW, that's hilarious. Not trying to be a dick or anything, but you're completely fooled by marketing. Specifically FOR drifting?? How about anything you can afford?? The first Tein "drifting" coilovers were a joke, weak sauce spring rates, lame lowness factor, everybody that drove on them hated them. The Super Drifts are a great product, Tein makes excellent parts, but buying a coilover because it says "Super Dorifto," is a terrible mistake. The Super Drifts are just the Flex with different spring rates and valving to match, which was what people were doing anyways.
Things to consider when choosing suspension:
primary use of the car- you say drifting, cool, daily driving?, time attack/autocross?
budget- biggest consideration, you gotta pay to play, the more you spend the more options you'll have. Megan/ebay/etc.-crap, k-sport-not much better I don't think, stance/poweredbymax/new greddy and Apexi/ buddyclub- good for the money, JIC/Tein/Cusco/HKS- middle of the road, Zeal/RSR/anything 2-way adjustable (compression, rebound)- upper middle, Ohlins/Motard-top-o-the-line wine Carlos Rossi. Top of the stack means you tell them what spring rates you want to use, and they'll build the dampers to your spec. including valving preferences. Generally speaking, any good suspension is up to the task of drifting, it's just another motorsport. If it was really that different, all these pros from other genres couldn't walk in and do it.
I would stress to put real money towards you're coilovers, other stuff you can kind of skimp on i.e.: diff- you can weld, multilink- so many choices, you could go cheap then upgrade if something breaks, seat- unless you're going pro any will do, etc.
Now I understand dropping 1800-3000 bucks on drift car isn't always feasible. Shit, I didn't get coilovers until a company gave me some, BUT I also didn't run out and buy the first thing with a drift sticker on them, and I also didn't flush money down the toilet on some bullshit ebay or Megan ones either. I knew my money was better spent waiting until I could afford what I wanted, i.e. something nice, but used.
When you do buy, ask them: how much can I change these spring rates before the dampening gets out of whack?
They should be able to answer that question, otherwise go another route. Who else is using these??
A great way to go is ask guys that use your car just like you do (your thread title was too broad), if it's track only, a weekend car, or daily driver. Make sure they get down like you do- don't ask me what I like unless you're down to daily drive a super aggressive set-up and don't give a shit how rough it is on the way to work as long as it goes super low, and is legit when you hit the track, etc.
GL man.
