Megan Racing Coilovers

[prostreetdsmx1]

Greg was making a joke (it's not all that serious)... God doesn't have time to concern himself with you car's suspension. Certainly there are many alternatives when choosing suspension for your car and to say there's only one way to go is absurd

hahahaha, 3rd. person. i love it.

 

[LONEWOLF01]

so will their be a 1g option? i don't mind the wait

 

[ShadeTreeDSM]

so i was looking into the Megan Racing Coil-Overs for my 1990 GSX. They seem pretty nice are at a great price, and look great !

Was wondering though....... do they come with the upper pillow ball mounts ?

anyone got pics of these Megan Racing's on there 1g Eclipse ?

 

[Hideki]

I asked RRE what coilover they suggest for my GST, and they said Megan (if your car is daily driven with occasional track duty) I didn't even consider Megan at first, but they said they are made by the same people who make the apexi coil overs. RRE did however suggest JIC for a track-only driven DSM

 

[talonTSIDriver]

My megan coil-overs see LOTS of track time and have made me happy. I'd spend the difference in money that you'll save from buying the megan's and buy a nice set of stickies.

 

[Empyrials]

ok so where's the best place to buy them for a 2g awd?

 

[talonTSIDriver]

ok so where's the best place to buy them for a 2g awd?

I picked mine up on eBay a year ago for $900 shipped, and they were bran new still in the box.

Edit: I did a little searching and I found extremepsi.com has them for $899. Not bad!
http://www.extremepsi.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=20863&cat=1485&page=1

 

[eclipsegsx1736]

^^^ Damn, that's cheap.

I've had my MR coilovers for a little under 2 years now and they still perform like they were new. I love them, the adjustability is great. I swapped the rear 6kg springrate for a 8kg, ordered direct from MR. The new springs came in only a few days and definitely made a very noticeable difference for the better. I also have the RRE rear swaybar, which completely changed the car (but I wouldn't recommend it for most people unless you're a serious track nut and know the car well..you WILL spin out if you don't know what you're doing.) I daily drive and road race my car and they're great for everything. Keep in mind these are stiff springrates, and your ride comfort will suffer if not vanish, but who cares? You'll forget the first time you take a turn. FYI you can set them soft if you're a pansy about ride comfort. I like to keep my track settings on the street, along with -3* front camber all the time but that's just me. Tire life is overrated.

 

[Boostdclips99]

the megan racing coilovers look great and you can't beat the price. From the sounds of it they should perform and adjust well with 32 settings total. Is there anyone else running these? Hard to get a good review of them from just a few people running them.

 

[RoasT BeeF]

I have purchased a set of these coilovers after much discussion with Marti at the Speed Factor. I cannot draw conclusions however, as they haven't arrived yet. When they do arrive and I have installed them, I will be sure to post a review of them.

I'll have a set of these on my car within the next 2-3 weeks. I'll post up a review when I get them on.

So whatever happend to posting a review guys? It sounds like you both expected them to be great, if that were the case I would have expected to see a review about it shortly after you got them installed. The fact that neither of you posted one makes me think otherwise.

 

[MaNGiNa24]

So whatever happend to posting a review guys? It sounds like you both expected them to be great, if that were the case I would have expected to see a review about it shortly after you got them installed. The fact that neither of you posted one makes me think otherwise.

Had them on for a while but removed them when I sold the car.

They were better than my eibach/tokico illuminas combo but the adjustability was pretty weak (no set numbers, just twist till it can't twist anymore).

I paid around $650 at the time, I wouldn't pay more than $700 for em these days as I'm seeing TONS of people posting about blown shock issues with these BC made coil overs.

 

[95GSXBLUR]

Had them on for a while but removed them when I sold the car.

They were better than my eibach/tokico illuminas combo but the adjustability was pretty weak (no set numbers, just twist till it can't twist anymore).

I paid around $650 at the time, I wouldn't pay more than $700 for em these days as I'm seeing TONS of people posting about blown shock issues with these BC made coil overs.

What exactly do you mean by "BC made coil overs"? I understand that you didn't have a chance to use these for a long time, however, do you have some links to these posts about blown shock issues?


where'd you get them for $650?

thanks!

 

[MaNGiNa24]

What exactly do you mean by "BC made coil overs"? I understand that you didn't have a chance to use these for a long time, however, do you have some links to these posts about blown shock issues?


where'd you get them for $650?

thanks!

I got them directly from MR when I was distributing their parts. BC (Bor-Chuann) is the taiwanese company that produces the coil overs. Practically every coil over that looks like the megan racing, apexi, d2 is in fact the BC.

The links to blown shocks were skimmed upon on a lot of different forums (rsx, 240sx and evo forums) if you wanna try to find them.

 

[95GSXBLUR]

Are you saying that there are similar failures when using Apexi, D2, and the like?

What would you suggest as a cheap alternative?

 

[MaNGiNa24]

Are you saying that there are similar failures when using Apexi, D2, and the like?

What would you suggest as a cheap alternative?

Stick with those brands, just make sure you get a warranty along with them.

I haven't seen massive failures, I've just recently noticed more and more that have failed. These products are relatively new and from what I've seen they work pretty well and I'm sure there have been MANY produced so it's not like all of htem are defective, just a small percentage.

 

[95GSXBLUR]

Yeah, there will be problems with everything, unfortunately. Some people have better luck than others - I hope they last a while.

Currently I have Eibach Prokits and KYB GR2s. I want adjustable ride height and some stiffer spring rates. I would assume these would do the trick for me. But then again, I want something to last longer than 30K miles.

 

[RoasT BeeF]

Had them on for a while but removed them when I sold the car.

They were better than my eibach/tokico illuminas combo but the adjustability was pretty weak (no set numbers, just twist till it can't twist anymore).

I paid around $650 at the time, I wouldn't pay more than $700 for em these days as I'm seeing TONS of people posting about blown shock issues with these BC made coil overs.

Thanks for the info. I am leaning away from these coilovers the more I read posts like that.

 

[eclipsegsx1736]

I've had my MR coilovers for 40,000 miles or so... which is alot. Car has been road raced, canyoned and abused throughly. They survived all that, a crash, not to mention hopping over what I can only describe as a "curb" on the highway that I hit at 70+ mph that was severe enough to destroy 3 wheels beyond repair and ruin 3 tires.. and they coilovers still worked like new. A about a month ago finally the front driver shock has blown... but guess what? Replacement shock inserts are a mere $75 each -- the coilovers are completely rebuildable and you can do it yourself.

Considering what they've been through, I think this is pretty amazing. I'm very happy with them.

My friend has an Evo that has been "Muellerized" at RRE/RRC, with BuddyClub coilovers, and he's already had 2 blown shocks within a year... He paid twice as much or more than I did for his setup.

And on the adjustment "issue" with not being able to visually see the adjustment setting... remember they have 32 different adjustments to choose from. It would be impossible to put 32 numbers on an adjustment knob the size of a nickel. Yes, all 32 adjustments are slightly different. All you have to do it spin the knob fully tight, and back out say 12 clicks on both fronts or wahtever setting you want. Takes 30 seconds to adjust all 4 shocks to your desired setting. MR also offers different spring rates so you can tune your suspension to a point. I upped the rear rate to an 8kg and noticed an immediate difference.

 

[Flash]

I've had my MR coilovers for 40,000 miles or so... which is alot. Car has been road raced, canyoned and abused throughly. They survived all that, a crash, not to mention hopping over what I can only describe as a "curb" on the highway that I hit at 70+ mph that was severe enough to destroy 3 wheels beyond repair and ruin 3 tires.. and they coilovers still worked like new. A about a month ago finally the front driver shock has blown... but guess what? Replacement shock inserts are a mere $75 each -- the coilovers are completely rebuildable and you can do it yourself.

Considering what they've been through, I think this is pretty amazing. I'm very happy with them.

My friend has an Evo that has been "Muellerized" at RRE/RRC, with BuddyClub coilovers, and he's already had 2 blown shocks within a year... He paid twice as much or more than I did for his setup.

And on the adjustment "issue" with not being able to visually see the adjustment setting... remember they have 32 different adjustments to choose from. It would be impossible to put 32 numbers on an adjustment knob the size of a nickel. Yes, all 32 adjustments are slightly different. All you have to do it spin the knob fully tight, and back out say 12 clicks on both fronts or wahtever setting you want. Takes 30 seconds to adjust all 4 shocks to your desired setting. MR also offers different spring rates so you can tune your suspension to a point. I upped the rear rate to an 8kg and noticed an immediate difference.

Ok Beau, you covered "reliability", adjustment, appearance and barely touched on performance. All you said is they are pretty amazing. I'm pretty amazing too, but I'm sure I could write more then one sentence about myself.

I wish I could have given you a ride in my car that day you came to visit me. You would have been impressed with my skills.

 

[talonTSIDriver]

Ok Beau, you covered "reliability", adjustment, appearance and barely touched on performance. All you said is they are pretty amazing. I'm pretty amazing too, but I'm sure I could write more then one sentence about myself.

I wish I could have given you a ride in my car that day you came to visit me. You would have been impressed with my skills.

I think its kinda hard to cover the performance of the MR coil-overs. I had them and I was please in every aspect. They take the abuse and perform well. Hard to give you REAL facts to prove how good they were in the performance field. Just like an engine, suspension requires tuning, and until a complete suspension is tuned to work together, its hard to base a true performance test on just the coil-overs themselves.

 

[TSIMonsteR]

I've had my MR coilovers for 40,000 miles or so... which is alot. Car has been road raced, canyoned and abused throughly. They survived all that, a crash, not to mention hopping over what I can only describe as a "curb" on the highway that I hit at 70+ mph that was severe enough to destroy 3 wheels beyond repair and ruin 3 tires.. and they coilovers still worked like new. A about a month ago finally the front driver shock has blown... but guess what? Replacement shock inserts are a mere $75 each -- the coilovers are completely rebuildable and you can do it yourself.

Considering what they've been through, I think this is pretty amazing. I'm very happy with them.

My friend has an Evo that has been "Muellerized" at RRE/RRC, with BuddyClub coilovers, and he's already had 2 blown shocks within a year... He paid twice as much or more than I did for his setup.

And on the adjustment "issue" with not being able to visually see the adjustment setting... remember they have 32 different adjustments to choose from. It would be impossible to put 32 numbers on an adjustment knob the size of a nickel. Yes, all 32 adjustments are slightly different. All you have to do it spin the knob fully tight, and back out say 12 clicks on both fronts or wahtever setting you want. Takes 30 seconds to adjust all 4 shocks to your desired setting. MR also offers different spring rates so you can tune your suspension to a point. I upped the rear rate to an 8kg and noticed an immediate difference.

Thanks for the informative post.

One question about adjustment... they do click to let you know they have tightened/loosened? If so, I can't see how it would be hard to adjust the stiffness.

Also, how easy is height adjustment (getting all four corners even is my main concern)

Thanks, I was planning on picking these up as they seem to be the better alternative when compared to a standard shock/spring combo (AGX/eibach etc)

 

[talonTSIDriver]

Thanks for the informative post.

One question about adjustment... they do click to let you know they have tightened/loosened? If so, I can't see how it would be hard to adjust the stiffness.

Also, how easy is height adjustment (getting all four corners even is my main concern)

Thanks, I was planning on picking these up as they seem to be the better alternative when compared to a standard shock/spring combo (AGX/eibach etc)

Adjusting the dampening is easy and yes, they do click.

Adjusting height is fairly easy. Just have to take off the wheel unless you have really small arms.

 

[eclipsegsx1736]

Yeah, the adjustment really is easy.

I don't want to comment too much on the specific performance of the coilovers, especially into great detail just because I know people will want to check my credibility as far as knowledge and experience with suspension and racing, and ask how many other setups I've compared it to, etc.

I will say that the adjustment is very good, any amount of body roll (or none at all) can be dialed in using the adjustment, and the shock valving seems well matched to the spring rate. I wish the bound and rebound adjustments were separate, but that kind of adjustability isnt on the same level as these as far as price, these MR coilovers are around $1000 and most double or triple adjustable coilovers are 3 times that.

As I have posted before in other threads about these coilovers, _actually_ used my car to its potential.. It's been road raced quite a bit so I've had time to really see how they are. I love the way the car feels...It responds so quickly and feels like a go kart.. you can put the car wherever you want. I can really tell that I need suspension bushings though, its definitely the next weak link in my suspension.

 

[president95]

So when you order different spring rates for these coilovers, do they change the shock valving to compensate for that?

 

[eclipsegsx1736]

So when you order different spring rates for these coilovers, do they change the shock valving to compensate for that?

I just ordered new springs, I went from 6kg to 8kg. They say you can go + or - 2kg from the provided rate. They sell just the shock "insert" so I assume you could buy an insert made for a different rate if you wanted to. Upping the rear rate to 8kg was fine, there was plenty of damping left in the shock, I could have gone even stiffer. Still, it's good to have the shock match the spring correctly from the start of course.