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2010 MX-5 Touring |
Friday, April 29, 2011 |
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Pete from MD
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I now have several weeks of daily driving in our local, crappy roads. Shocks are set at 10 clicks from full soft front and 5 clicks from full soft rear (this is exactly the setup I used successfully at the last autoX on OEM wheels and tires).
Overall ride is pretty good and I think reasonable for most sports car owners. Big hits/potholes are still fairly stiff but lets face it, going from ~158lb OEM front springs to ~450lb front springs is going to be felt even with the greatest valving in the world.
The valving appears to have better range of usability than the TEIN Flex which is the only other reasonably low cost single adjustible coilover I have owned. On the Tein Flex, when set really soft, the car would bounce around a lot and was clearly not damped enough to control the springs. Conversely, when set very stiff, the car lost all traction and appeared overdamped. So the usable setting on the Flex were restricted to a narrow band in the middle to middle soft settings.
The DGR coilovers work well at all settings. Set on very soft settings there is only the slightest amount of "bouncyness", the valving controls the springs pretty well even when set very low. Conversely, set very stiff there is still some compliance although overall grip does decline with the OEM wheel/tire setup. I think that a more grippy wheel/tire setup (235 or 245 summer tires on 8 or 9" wheels or using r-comps) would require running stiffer settings (>15 clicks or so) on the DGR coilovers, it is nice to know that I have that level of damping available for when I upgrade my wheel/tire package.
The valving and spring rates allow a pretty supply ride over undulations in the road, the tires remain in contact with the road surface and the car feels well composed overall.
The DGR coilovers remain the most quiet coilovers I have ever owned (no "shooose" or other valving noises, no "creeks", "clanks", "clicks" etc, they are as quiet as the OEM shocks.
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