</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Yoshi @ June 02 2002,6:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm in no way saying GC's are crap, on the contrary, I have GC's on my car, w/KYB AGX shock, the springs are matched to suit them.
Not all full coils are good either, that I'd know less about, but I do know that they're not all the same.
It all really depends on your application. my car is my commuter (tho only 2miles each way). The roads where I live suck, so lowering my car too much was not an option. I also wanted to have linear springs, cuz progressives feel squishy to me, and are meant more for comfortable daily driving and street racing than AutoX or drift. Full coils would've made daily driving pretty uncomfortable where I live, so I chose the happy medium. GC's and AGX. TOTALLY worth it to me, I don't know anyone in my area that can outhandle my car <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
I'm 100% w/ Yoshi on this one. I think a GC set up is a *better* application if you know what you are doing.
GC lets you chose from about any spring rate. If you know what you are doing, you can perfectly set up your car. As for being too short for shocks/struts - you can order longer springs and keep the thing at factory height, but have it handle like a go-kart if you want. No, you can't drop it to the weeds and expect it to handle like a racecar, but you can make a reasonable height ajustment and maintain plenty of travel. As for the springs themselves - a linear rate spring is a linear rate spring as long as it is from a company that is capable of making one right. I trust Eibach and Tein - so there is no advantage on the spring itself.
If you want, you can go one step further and get short stroke dampers (vary by application, so I won't list). With these, you can go just as low as Teins and other full coil systems (except the $2500 sets where lowering is done using the mount, not the perch) and have just as much travel. Good dampers matched with good rates give you more options than out of the box Teins, etc. (although you can get different rates for those, you can't just order new springs off the shelf like you can from GC).
So, w/ GC's, not only do you get just as much performance and just as much tunability. You also get to buy/service parts individually should a damper blow, w/o having to wait for Japan to fix the unit.