Brand new, Whiteline Group 4 Coil Overs are specially designed for performance road use, with a high pressure, mono-tube design incorporating a huge class leading 40mm stainless piston. With Whiteline’s unique top mounted composite bump and rebound rate adjuster, and single adjuster spring perch (no need for multiple c-span wrenches to loosen, move and retighten) these very high performance units are easy to make height adjustments, and to adjust your dampening rates.
Non inverted mono-tube design also means no stiction and road noise like other inverted road/rally shocks of the competition.
Careful attention to spring and dampening rates make these units ideal for road use, yet with a huge 16 way adjustable dampening rate, allow you to firm up the shocks for serious road, auto-x, and track use, right up to slicks.Whiteline has been testing and developing these performance coil overs for over a year now, and have put a lot of time and energy into developing a world-class ultra high performance coil over system for your vehicle.
What Whiteline has done has produced superior dampening control with proper valving, using non inverted mono-tube pistons, using extremely high quality, properly constructed and valved pistons and internals for a very smooth, but very controlled ride that allows the Subaru suspension to do what it was designed to do - hug the road. Result ? You get proper cornering, braking and acceleration when your suspension is properly damped, allowing the suspension and more importantly the wheels and tires to move up and down to the road surface. With a super stiff shock/spring combo, the car cannot react properly to bumps and undulations in the road, and this puts more strain on the tires to compensate. Result ? Wheels lock up under threshold braking, and the car has uncontrollable transitions into understeer or oversteer near the limits. This makes for a nervous and twitchy car that is always at the limits, and not fun and safe to drive anywhere near it’s limits. Soften up the dampening and the car will become much easier to drive both at every day speeds, and when you push the car.
Spring rates on the Subaru GC and GD Group 4’s are very sane 275 ft/lbs front, 225 ft/lbs rear, which makes a whole lot more sense than these 500-600 ft/lb springs we see on JDM units. Combined with far superior valving, the 16 way adjustment on the Group 4’s allows you to soften up the ride for every day driving, wet or snowy conditions, yet firm up the ride for spirited street and canyon touges, auto-x, and even all the way up to serious track driving on slicks.
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keirnna VIP Member
Registered: November 2003 Location: Okinawa, Japan Posts: 2553
Review Date: Mon June 20, 2005
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
