People have made it work in the past. I'm not going to spoon feed people.

Reading is not a difficult task.

 

any update on the ride

 

I'd like to go about an inch lower F/R than the swifts but maintain the ride quality. Bilsteins almost at the bottom?

 

Bump this thread seems a lot of coilover questions recently on the forum.

 

got my coilovers today from Redshift Motorsports. Can't wait to have them installed tomorrow. Awesome customer service from Chris @ Redshift. Every e-mail I sent to him was answered right away.

 

Could you pm me the price on those konis?

 

What spring rates did you go with?

 

5K front, 4K rear, with the swift springs upgrade.

 

Here Are A Few Pictures After The Coilovers Were Installed.

 

surprise noone talks about the Apexi Coilover here

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/1016273-post308.html

 

How is the ride on the coilovers? I've been waiting for Koni setup as I love them on my integra.

 

The ride is great it handles very well and is very streetable with 4k and 5k springs, I think it is a very worthwhile upgrade.

 

How much for that same exact set up? I'm in same exact car. Even colors same!! Please lmk

 

Here is a link to the setup I have. Suspension Rides And Handles Awesome.
BEST SUSPENSION Koni "SPORT" (Single Adjustable) Full Coilover (09+ Fit)

 

$1600? You can get Buddy Club, Bilstein and even KW v1 for less than that.

 

Have to respond to this....

KW V1 is good for the street and soft but non-adjustable and totally out-classed by the dampers we use.

Buddy Club.... ack.... this are the best of the crap coilovers... but they are still crap...especially the dampers that adjust both compression and rebound together, which is only done when you don't care enough to do it right.... or want to be cheap about it.

Bilstein are amazing dampers, but they are non-adjustable. So, that's a great coilover setup, but it's non-adjustable and fairly stiff.... so you get what you get and you cannot customize anything about it.

The Koni Sport based coilover is a great option... and if I was running a Fit on the street (I sold mine), it would absolutely not be any of the 3 mentioned above (except maybe the KW... although it's expensive for what it is).

Chris

 

Some people just wanna be low Chris lol. Shocks be damned.

I have a review thread for the koni/GC setup on here somewhere. But the build quality and performance of the Best suspension setup more than justifies the price(got them on sale though ). Not to mention awesome customer service from Chris.

 

There's a reason for that

I don't think they can do this very well and live to tell about it:

Max Rate w/ Koni Sport (09+ Fit): 600F/800R,

 

Unless you have had experience with all 3, your comment can not be validated and considered upon.
I don't have experience with Koni myself but I wouldn't pay that much for those coilover just because they are adjustable, not $1600. I know they are quite popular with pre 2000 integra and civic though, at least they cost much less for those cars. I have Bilstein PSS9 on my S2000 and rarely ever change the settings and they ride better than stock. I got a chance to test drive and ride inside one with Buddy Club and the feel is just fine for me. KW I can agree with you that it's outclassed.

 

You are partially correct, I have never driven a Fit with the Buddy Club or Bilstein coilovers, but I know both of those products well and have driven Civics with them. And my comments are not specific to the Fit.

The Buddy Club coilover is still an adjustable coilover that does it wrong. Sure they are ok and I do recommend them, especially when you want to lower the car a ton and there is not other choice, but they don't adjust correctly, and as a very experience racer and product development professional, I don't like things that are not done right.... things that are done for marketing reasons or because you don't know better. You should never tie compression and rebound adjustments together....

btw you can imagine when at SEMA this year I saw Ohlin has does just that withe their budget coilovers.... I'm like wtf? So, I ask the guy.... who honestly didn't know what the heck he was talking about. Said to me "well these are more for the track; so that's why".... so which I responded "well you REALLY don't want to tie them together on the track".... and he just looked at me with a blank look on his face.

Seriously, I'm not trying to be an ass.... just have a huge amount of experience with all this stuff.

And the Bilstein is a very good damper... but they are weird about how they do their PSS9 setup... I don't like it at all. If you ever dyno'd the shocks, you'd notice the adjustment affects more mid and high speed and both compression and rebound together.... bad and bad. It gives the perception of being stiff, but it doesn't change how the car handles in transition much. So, I don't recommend the PSS9 (or 10..the new one) usually.

Anyway.... hope that all makes sense. Seriously not hating... just doing my job reviewing things for what they are.

Chris