Trey,

with all the posts I have been reading on various forums about coil-overs for ITR's, there just hasn't been much actual info about real tuning for the track. It is like only the guys who race know and most everyone else is just guessing. Before I buy, I want to educate myself on suspension tuning and make the best choice. At the track I have often heard guys saying they wish they had waited and bought another mod instead of the one they did. There have been a lot of posts discussing North American preference for stiffer springs in the rear and the Japanese bias for stiffer springs in the front (and it seems that all the Japanese made coil-overs I have looked at come with higher stiffness front springs), plus many of opinions on why someone prefers this coil-over over that coil-over. For instance I know from speaking with Tein that flipping the springs front to back from their standard supplied RA or RE systems requires the shock to be re-valved as the adjustemnt range will not accomodate such a radical change in spring rate (according to them). I am sure you can still drive around the track and have fun if you flip the springs front to back and don't revalve the shocks, but your car will not be as good as it could be.

At a World Challenge event at Mosport, when Mike Galati was running his own team with an ITR (and won the championship), I spoke with his crew chief in the paddock. He told me that the place they spent the most money after the motor was the shocks. They were using Mugen racing shocks, which are stiffer and more expensive than what I want. I want to track my ITR for lapping days, not wheel to wheel racing. I will drive it to the track, but I won't use it much on the street, as I have another car. No prizes to be won. My budget is about $3000 to $3500 for tires/wheels/coilovers and say bar. I just thought that it would be fun to learn about really tuning the car while at the same time improving my driving skills. (Mostly how do go flat out on those high speed sweepers!). Thus adjustable shocks in bump and rebound seem like a good idea for that extra tuning freedom, if they can be had at a reasonable cost (not at $995 each) although for more than Tein's of Zeal's I am sure. And since Truechoice supplies the Konis and Advance-Design has theirs, I was hoping to find out if anybody had tried these products.