The Tein HGs are a nice product. I should say first off that if you are looking to lower your car, these are not for you. These are not really even a “raise it up and then lower it down” depending on your mood set-up either. The range of adjustment on the perches is rather small, just a little more than enough to get it corner weighted (If you like it a tad lower). You have a little more leeway for taking it higher. The good news is that even at their near stock ride height the handling is quite good, awesome in fact.

For a Dirt/Gravel set-up the work great on the street, at full soft they are nearly indistinguishable from stock. That is until you take a corner. There is barely any body roll. Turn it to full stiff and it’s very near the same as my old JICs. The spring rates are 252lb/in front, and 196lb/in (progressive) rear. The springs themselves are the larger stock style.

They come with a very nice set of pillow-ball upper spring perches, well made and quite beefy. They have remote reservoirs piggybacked on the strut. The compression Adjustment **** is on the top of this reservoir. The bad news is that the rebound adjuster is on the top of the strut shaft. In the front there is enough of a fender gap to reach the compression adjuster and setting the rebound is as easy as popping the hood. In the rear things are more difficult. The fender gap is not big enough to fit you hand in, and the back seat covers up the top of the strut.

I have yet to Auto-x or Rally-x on them. I must say that for my day-to-day, back road driving they are perfect. The handling is sublime and the ability to soak up the roughest of roads is just short of amazing. I have my car set at –1.3deg camber 0 toe up front, -1deg 0toe rear. I have been running around with the compression and rebound set in the middle for a baseline. Even with the higher stance, lower spring rates and middle of the road damper settings, I would say that they compare equally to my old FL-A2’s. That is until you hit some sweepers where (with these settings) are about 9/10 of the FL-A2’s. That is not much to give up though considering what they do and a much better ride. Not to mention you can hit the dirt, with a simple change of tires.

All in all a great suspension, but as I said not for everyone.

 

So your coming out to Marina this weekend for a little autox testing with NASA?

I would love to check them out...

 

Chris, can't make it to marina. You should see me however for SF region slush

 

Cool... see ya there.