wheres the best plce to find coilovers for 1998 bravo?

I put FK coilovers on my 01 HGT & the handling is now mental..! Roll on the end of the month when i have finished the turbo conversion...! Here are a few sites i was looking at when i was looking for them

http://www.madmotors.co.uk/catalog/highsport-fiat-bravabravo-35mm-front-mbracket-p-18470.html
(These are what i have)

http://www.europerformance.co.uk/pages/products/search_car/product_sub.mhtml?car=fiatbravo;category=coiloverkits

http://www.venommotorsport.com/product_details.php?id=7082&manufacturer=FK&category=suspension

Hope they help..!

Kee.

Kee1975

cheers mate

I've had two sets of FK's and they are worth every penny. Def go fot the silverline (stainless steel option) though as the allow threads soon rust up on the Highline, and when you order I'd recommend you ask them for 100N springs which they will swop foc. I'd order new top mounts too. Ciao

I was looking at some coilovers for my GT but was warned off them as they can sieze up and strip the thread??

Do you reckon it's the cheaper one's that do that and the more expensive one's wont??

I believe they are very hard too??

Cheers.

I did not have a rust issue with the FK highsports.

They did however wear just as quickly as normal shocks. No matter how much you spend you will end up with worn out shocks and shoddy handling.

I got my first set of FK's about 5 yrs ago. they didn't rust all that much (would clean up) but for the sake of having adjustable / threads the stainless are so much sexier.

Ride can be a sujective / personal thing, but I found they improve both comfort and handling immensely ciao.

How many miles have you put on them? Mine have done best part of 50k.

What cars do you have??

Seriously tempted now, £600 is pretty steep though lol.

iv got Fk's on my 1.6...well and truely worth it handling is improved by miles, body role decreased and stance...well thats a different issue..


She's a monster soon to be revealed

If they didnt want it stripping they shouldnt have used nuts and bolts

1.6, and yes its steep. If I was going to do it again I'd go bilstein shocks and eibach springs.

Bravo's yeah??

I was looking at Koni FSD's and eibach springs for my alfa, that seems to be the option of choice on alfa forums.

However, I find alfa forums to be the older generations so their idea of 'to stiff' could be 'just right' for the likes of me lol.

The koni/eibach set up is more expensive too.

Alfas are not supposed to have a hard ride though, unless its a GTV or 75 cloverleaf

Got to get my finger out and do the rear bushes on my 166. If I was going to put 'coilovers' on it (given that its already got coilovers all round) I'd be looking at something better than FK.

How about a GT Cloverleaf lol

I went visiting a friend on the weekend who lives in the country side. As always, I gave the GT a good thrashing down the wider country lanes that I know fairly well.

The suspension is just to soft for that kind of high speed driving. What annoys me, is that it's fairly harsh to begin with so you get all the disadvantages of stiff suspension with none of the advantages.

So, yesterday I bit the bullet and bought these:
http://www.europerformance.co.uk/pages/products/product_info.mhtml?product=3941393


You could say I'm a little excited lol.
I'll only be dropping it a maximum of 35mm.
Once fitted, I'll be taking it to a profesional outfit to corner weight it and set everything up so it's perfect (a must apparently).

P.s
I didn't pay anywhere near £1200 lol!!

how much did you pay???
i got to the link and opened it and saw the rediculous price!haha then i read the rest of the post!
where did you get them from then?

james

lol.

Got them from a place in Germany.
With VAT, delivery and the extra bit that paypal add on (w ankers) the total came to £800. Still pretty expensive but they are a good set up.

But you gets whats yous pays for with those.

Its not like your buying crap like KW or some awful adjustables.

My thoughts exactly Tom.

They have arrived this morning

crap like KW?

have you seen the prices? its almost £1000 for a coupe KW kit and they come pretty highly recommended, i was going to get a set for my marea.

Ry

I think he may of meant FK as I refered to an FK set up earlier in the thread.

No, I really meant KW. If I'd meant FK I'd have said FK.

FK beats KW as they bothered to make a height adjustable rear spring seat for the tipo platform and you'll have a load of spare change left over.

KW do a coilover kit for my car but its the same springrates for the TS and V6 and its still a twin-tube shock. For the same money I could get the autodelta mono-tube kit and on a big car like mine mono-tubes make a heck of a difference.

Ah right, sorry mate.

I've heard good things about KW, however this could just be some good marketing from the company.

These Bilsteins I've just got are a mono-tube shock. To be fair they look to be very good quality.

Exactly my point, a k for twintubes or less for monotubes? No brainer to anyone with half a brain