2G Old JIC vs Feal Coilovers? (Chose Ohlins)

[Detail]

Been going through my entire suspension this year and have replaced EVERYTHING with volk (where possible) and FIBA upper arms. Everything else received new prothane bushings. All of this in my build (front lca and fiba upper arms to be updated). I live in the south and my jic flta2’s got cleaned up but are on probably 130-150 street miles. Very hard to rebuild them these days. Do I sell them on snd replace with feal 441+ and then have the suspension professionally tuned or what? Not going on track, street 100% of the time, want grip with reasonable ride.

Ride now is really decent considering mileage and how low the car is. Arm me with the knowledge my 22 years of being a dsm owner doesnt have. What have you done?

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[Justin DuBois]

OG RRE - Muellerized JIC's now Muellerized OHLINS - for the street and track

 

[Christo]

I also am on a set of JIC's I got from Muellerized forever ago. My plan is to go with the Ohlins, last I priced out a set of the Feals that had the options I wanted it was $4K+. Ohlins from the tried and true man himself seem like the logical answer. To me, ymmv.

 

[Detail]

He is the reason I ordered the JIC's in first place. I just couldn't afford his services at that time. Times have changed. I'll look those up!

 

[Justin DuBois]

He is the reason I ordered the JIC's in first place. I just couldn't afford his services at that time. Times have changed. I'll look those up!

Check my build thread - OHLINS need fabricated custom parts to install in a 2G. Not a budget solution, but OHLINS are light years more advanced than JIC's, and JIC's were awesome.

 

[pagosa dsm]

Best bang for the buck . Install a set of Konis with Ground Control coil overs.

 

[Detail]

I am not seeing this mythical ohlins on his website (he shows teins). Does anyone actually have these?

 

[Christo]

I don't think the website has been updated in years? I would call or shoot them an email to see what they have available and current pricing, keep us updated.

 

[Justin DuBois]

I don't think the website has been updated in years? I would call or shoot them an email to see what they have available and current pricing, keep us updated.

Yeah - Web site has been back burner for a while. Best bet if you are trying to reach Muellerized is to call the shop, and/or e-mail.

 

[Detail]

Emailed today. I'll update the post as I get info back.

 

[Christo]

Any update?

 

[Detail]

Had a great conversation with John! With Justin’s help (appreciate you) I am planning to move forward. Just need a few more weeks to recover from some unexpected financial hits.

 

[Detail]

Game on. I’ll post updates as they come.

 

[Justin DuBois]

One of one template - deinstalled for shipping to John

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[Detail]

I think my jic’s saw this post…

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[Justin DuBois]

I saw a pic of your setup! - Did some spring testing for John. You should be rolling on a "One of Two" OHLINS for a 2G soon!

 

[Detail]

The Ohlins have arrived!!!!

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[Detail]

Super stoked to get these installed soon.

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[Detail]

Rear coilovers are all installed. Fronts on deck.

2g Dsm Rear Ohlins Coilover install!

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[Detail]

Made some real progress yesterday. Had a few snags but I’ll try to document everything for the next guy. One more corner to do. Then probably tow it to gran turismo to get aligned and the bump steer kit installed.

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[Detail]

Sorry for the delay in an update. Work got crazy and it took forever to get this all going. Anyways, after all of that was installed, I had the car towed to Gran Turismo East in Atlanta. It took them 3 weeks and $1500 later to get the car aligned. There was a lot of on/off of parts to adjust them. This included the upper arms, lower arms, v3 bumpsteer kit, and getting the rear volk arms working correctly with the rm swaybars. I was not expecting that much cost, but at that point, what are you going to do? It is aligned to the exact specs John at Mullerized had suggested. Drove it home in practically a tornado.

So how is it?!

Quiet (at first). Poised. Like all parts are actually working in harmony. You can drive over speed bumps and the car doesn’t crash about. The car does not pull back to center as much as before but rides well on the highway. The FIBA v2 bumpsteer kit really helped knock out most of that behavior. May go back and tweak the alignment some more. I do think I'd like more return to center.

Now some months later when I am posting this, the rear remains great. The front is quite loud at slow speeds like in the neighborhood. I've tried to grease the pivots with triflow but it doesn't seem to help. Either the heim joints are just loud or the springs make noise, or probably all of the above. Still rides well, just makes some racecar noises. Lowering the compression knobs 4-5 clicks in the front and toward the softer side in the rear has helped slightly.

Should you do this? Yeah, I think you should give John a call for sure.

 

[Justin DuBois]

Sorry for the delay in an update. Work got crazy and it took forever to get this all going. Anyways, after all of that was installed, I had the car towed to Gran Turismo East in Atlanta. It took them 3 weeks and $1500 later to get the car aligned. There was a lot of on/off of parts to adjust them. This included the upper arms, lower arms, v3 bumpsteer kit, and getting the rear volk arms working correctly with the rm swaybars. I was not expecting that much cost, but at that point, what are you going to do? It is aligned to the exact specs John at Mullerized had suggested. Drove it home in practically a tornado.

So how is it?!

Quiet (at first). Poised. Like all parts are actually working in harmony. You can drive over speed bumps and the car doesn’t crash about. The car does not pull back to center as much as before but rides well on the highway. The FIBA v2 bumpsteer kit really helped knock out most of that behavior. May go back and tweak the alignment some more. I do think I'd like more return to center.

Now some months later when I am posting this, the rear remains great. The front is quite loud at slow speeds like in the neighborhood. I've tried to grease the pivots with triflow but it doesn't seem to help. Either the heim joints are just loud or the springs make noise, or probably all of the above. Still rides well, just makes some racecar noises. Lowering the compression knobs 4-5 clicks in the front and toward the softer side in the rear has helped slightly.

Should you do this? Yeah, I think you should give John a call for sure.

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[Detail]

I need that sticker! 2/2!