Yellow Speed Racing coilovers

Apu · Postby **Apu** » Tue May 10, 2011 9:37 pm

Bizi - I was getting the street ones, but holding back for now as the stock suspension is more than adequate. I'm shopping for roll hoops at moment but it looks like it will be the ones from MX5+.

gslender · Postby **gslender** » Wed May 11, 2011 6:23 pm

Me too

elitee · Postby **elitee** » Wed May 11, 2011 7:26 pm

Installing my premium comps tomorrow will let you know how they go

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Fri May 13, 2011 4:35 pm

Ok I've had these in for little over a week and a half now and absolutely loving them. I've done about 600km's on them and I think they've fully bedded in.
I will say that I'm yet to experience the full handling capacity of these as I'm in desperate need of an alignment but the overall change has been fairly dramatic.
I'm currently running them at standard preload and damper though I'm about to double the damper as I feel it's not quite firm enough at the moment.
The cornering is pretty direct but there is a still a little flex, I attribute this to having the preload still set at full springs travel and the damper set on the street settings. I'm going to play with damper before I muck with preload as I know that has to be done precise.

As for the ride, it's very smooth and bounciness is minor. I've had lowered springs in the car before and that was a lot harsher than these coilovers. From what I can tell, they feel very similar to BC BR's.

Oh and I have the street spec set if that helps.

gslender · Postby **gslender** » Fri May 13, 2011 9:26 pm

So, anyone keen on the GB thing?

egads · Postby **egads** » Fri May 13, 2011 9:35 pm

Yeah for sure.

Apu · Postby **Apu** » Fri May 13, 2011 9:53 pm

Group buy...hmm...why not!

kris · Postby **kris** » Sat May 14, 2011 7:23 pm

I'm probably keen for a group buy on these coilovers.
I think if i was going to spend almost 3 times as much i'd go with ohlins, otherwise i'm not sure what else to go for in this price bracket.

elitee · Postby **elitee** » Sat May 14, 2011 8:33 pm

Mine left rear shock on my premium comps is faulty :@
Apparently it's a blown piston, everyone time I drive there's a knocking noise least there fixing it

Other than that pretty decent so far

david_syd_au · Postby **david_syd_au** » Mon May 23, 2011 2:08 pm

I am keenly interesting in the street YSR coilovers for my NC.

Does anyone with such a setup have comments about how the ride compares to the stock suspension?

I want to go lower, with better damping, especially in the rear, but can't afford for the ride to be too harsh when out driving with her-indoors.

gslender · Postby **gslender** » Mon May 23, 2011 7:12 pm

kris wrote:otherwise i'm not sure what else to go for in this price bracket.

After much deliberation, I finally decided on HSD (mainly for the good reviews from other cars) and the price being similar.

Read my blog below (in the sig) to see the unbox and eventually I'll post more picture and feedback etc.

G

Lokiel · Postby **Lokiel** » Mon May 23, 2011 10:53 pm

gslender wrote:So, anyone keen on the GB thing?

Not sure you should abbreviate "Group Buy" in the above sentence

reflex · Postby **reflex** » Tue May 24, 2011 1:09 pm

david_syd_au wrote:I am keenly interesting in the street YSR coilovers for my NC.

Does anyone with such a setup have comments about how the ride compares to the stock suspension?

I want to go lower, with better damping, especially in the rear, but can't afford for the ride to be too harsh when out driving with her-indoors.

Hi David, i've had my YSR's in for only a few days. I set the dampening adjusters to the factory reco for daily street driving and feel that ride quality on Sydneys freeways and ruralish back roads its great, however on the princes hwy through tempe, parra road etc, the sharp bumps / pot holes / road repairs do crash through a bit. My wife describes the car as "too bouncy" but shes only in it 20% of the time.
As for you wanting to go lower in the rear, i can tell you that at full drop, I have a hub centre bore to guard measurement of 350mm which is only about 20mm lower than stock, and I am very dissapointed in this. The fronts are set to 340mm HC to G and have alot of adjustment remaining up or down, so for the rears to be full down at 350mm i'm not sure you'll be happy.
Having said that, a 20mm drop argueably keeps the ride height legal (obviously i'd need to bring the fronts up, which i'll do if the rears don't settle any lower).

For reference I have a 2006 PRHT with whiteline sways. I removed tein S-tech springs on stock shocks to upgrade to the YSR, and the Tein ride height in the rear was great (331mm HC to G) but the front was about 345 HC to G which left it looking like it was dragging its bum, now it looks like a top fueler!

i had said that I was willing to test run these as the price was so good, and depending on how the rears settle in, I might just consider going to the highly recommended Eibach Prokit springs on Tokico HTS shocks as I don;t know if I could justify spending another $1500 or more on Tein superstreet coilovers.

Thats my 2 cents, I know there is another forum member who recently had the YSR installed so he may have a different opinion.

gslender · Postby **gslender** » Tue May 24, 2011 6:33 pm

ando3808 wrote:thanks for the heads up on the HSD I didnt know made coilovers for MX5, did pay less then RRP?

I'd recommend you contact Ben from Otomoto and get a price... I'm sure you'll pay under $1300 but as always it depends on many factors (stock levels, desire to move said stock, AUD$ vs GBP$ etc)

G

elitee · Postby **elitee** » Tue May 24, 2011 9:12 pm

Yeah I was also very disappointed in the drop, had to loosen the spring preload which gave me a other inch or 2 drop (sitting moderator slammed at the moment )
Ride is ruff as gutts for me but I do have premium comps going to put my back out soon !!